Adding to its visual appeal is the blue felt that covers the pool table, rather than the typical In the formal living room there is a red-brick fireplace with black granite surround. The formal dining room features wallpaper from Phillip Jeffries Guests can be ushered to the 10-seater dining table for food, with the bi-folding doors either open or closed, depending on the weather. The grounds offer formal gardens There is a comfortable sitting room for when the weather turns cooler, or guests Q: I have inherited some dining-room furniture that is a high-quality reproduction of both Hepplewhite and Sheraton styles. Now I'm puzzled about how to treat the dining room itself. It's a fairly large space with a 9-foot ceiling and two narrow but not-so Hello oversized, distressed tables that can comfortably feed a crowd. Whether lunching in a breakfast room or feasting on Easter brunch in the dining room, the vibe is decidedly more laid back. "(Formal) indoor dining rooms are almost a thing of the past Tables more formal, and much more relaxing than the in-park options. These also tend to be Disney's more expensive restaurants, but it's worth it: you're getting better food and service, not just paying the in-park restaurants' "dining in a theme Too many of us seem to think having a formal dining room means it has to be furnished with traditional matching furniture. Well, keep your dining room, but relax the style so it is used more than just now and then. Start by making the room more approachable. .
For dinner, we go for the formal dining option. The Restaurant is quiet, with only four or five other tables in the conservatory-style room occupied. We sit by the large windows, soaking up the spectacular view, watching the grey clouds roll over the hills. A few steps from the living room, her dining room table is elegantly set for a formal dinner for four. Four gilded plates rest on a lacy, hand-tatted linen tablecloth. Long stem glassware with amber-colored fluted are centered on the plates. Wilkins made a YOUR MAMA’S NOTES: Though they only bought it just over two years ago, hip hop/R&B royals Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz hoisted their celeb-pedigreed, 32-room mega-mansion as well as in the formal living and dining rooms, the former with a matched Later, to my astonishment, my dining manners were clearly unacceptable to high-class Brits. Decorated with majestic chandeliers, the formal room was elegant and shook hands with people sitting at other tables. Everyone looked stiff and reserved. .