"Keep dining room table decor low so that sight lines aren't interrupted," Lesley Myrick, the founder of Lesley Myrick Interior Design, says. She recommends setting out a wide, shallow bowl or a ...

Interior designers dish out six types of dining room items—from decor to tableware—they frequently shop for at thrift stores.

A fairly large but still cozy dining room, which is the primary place I eat all of my meals, since the galley kitchen doesn't ...