Best of 2025: Dining Rooms

In the last week of the year, it is time to look back at the finest interiors and outdoor spaces published on The Nordroom in 2025. Today, I will share the best dining rooms of 2025.

This year, The Nordroom has posted a record number of home tours, design news, and home styling articles. In this Best of 2025 series, I will share the finest rooms, gardens, and architecture of the past year.

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photo: Fredrik J. Karlsson for Alvhem
built-in bookshelves dining room
photo: Fredrik J. Karlsson for Alvhem
dining room bookshelves painted decorative ceiling
photo: Fredrik J. Karlsson for Alvhem

The dining room is the heart of this 19th-century home. Large windows flood the room with light and offer views of the park-like garden, built-in bookshelves add plenty of storage, and the ceiling is decorated with beautiful nature scenes.

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photo: Historiska Hem

This dining room in a Swedish house is a welcoming space with soft pink walls, a red dining table, and beautiful wooden floorboards. The glass doors flood the space with natural light, while the art and books add a personal touch.

dining room and home office with bookshelves and art
styling by Copparstad and photography by Boukari for Historiska Hem
dining room home office with gallery wall
styling by Copparstad and photography by Boukari for Historiska Hem
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styling by Copparstad and photography by Boukari for Historiska Hem

A charming Swedish cottage features a dining room with white-painted paneled walls and wooden floorboards, paired with art, plants, and books to create a welcoming, personal space.

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photo: Inigo

A renovated London townhouse designed by Laura Stephens features a great dining room with striped wallpaper, a built-in bench, and a window seat. The glass wall ensures natural light flows freely through the home, and the bar in the corner adds a social aspect to the room.

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photo: The Lillie K. Team
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photo: The Lillie K. Team

In the dining room of a Gothic Revival retreat in the Hudson Valley, limewashed walls by Portola Paints glow against views of the allee gardens and greenhouse.

dining room custom bookcase blue-painted ceiling
styling by Gärde and photography by Borgelin for Historiska Hem
orange-red bookcase
styling by Gärde and photography by Borgelin for Historiska Hem

The dining room in a well-preserved 1930s apartment is fitted with a custom bookcase in a nice orange-red shade, while the ceiling is painted in a light blue shade.  

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photo: Carole Poirot for Inigo

A grand open room in a colorful, eclectic Victorian duplex is now used as a dining room. The walls are painted in a soft pink shade, and during the renovation work, an original frieze was discovered, which the owners decided to display exactly as they found it.

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photo: Domus Nova
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photo: Domus Nova

The dining room in a Notting Hill duplex designed and lived in by Amanda Hoyle, founder of Sey Studios, features soft blue walls and a custom-built-in bench, with views of St Peter’s Church through stained-glass windows.

dining table gallery wall pitched ceiling
styling by Copparstad and photography by Boukari for Historiska Hem

The dining area in a personal and cozy 1960s home in Sweden features a large table with a linen tablecloth and a lot of art on the walls, turning it into a personal space.

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This dining room is created using paint from The Dependables paint collection by Beata Heuman. The eclectic room pairs blue and yellow tones with period elements and a large extendable wooden table.

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photo: Jason Rick

The breakfast room in Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo’s Montecito estate is a wonderful retreat filled with plants and a cozy fireplace with a marble surround.

dining room palm wallpaper built-in cabinet
photo: LF Fastighetsförmedling

A Swedish home where Scandinavian designs meet The Hamptons features a beautiful dining room with a pitched ceiling and a built-in bookcase with integrated lighting.

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photo: Inigo
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photo: Inigo
dining room terracotta pink walls
photo: Inigo
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photo: Inigo

The dining room in an English artist’s home features limewash, earthy pink walls paired with deep blue joinery and textiles. An interesting color combination!

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photo: Bjurfors

The dining room in one of the Artelleriet co-founders’ homes is impressive, measuring 30 square meters and featuring four large windows in two directions. A rounded wooden dining table stands atop a large rug in a muted orange shade.

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photo: Inigo
glass skylight ceiling dining room round table
photo: Inigo

The dining room in a stunning Victorian house has a pitched lantern roof and window that floods the room with an easterly light

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styling by Copparstad and photography by Boukari for Historiska Hem

The owners of a former church building created a cozy dining area by the window and the glass balcony doors. Decorated with plants and a large wooden folding table, this is the natural gathering point in the apartment.

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photo: Inigo

This dramatic dining space in a medieval English country house opens to the original solar roof structure, showcasing four arch-braced collar trusses with intricate tiered wind braces, creating a tracery effect. The room also features the original staircase from Cleveden Court.

The 13th-century gable wall is still visible, complete with original pigeonholes. The walls are deep-green limewash, and a large medieval stone fireplace houses a Darby wood burner.

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photo: Domus Nova

A dining area has been created in the center of the plan of a Victorian townhouse in Chelsea, using a sleek wooden table surrounded by four dining chairs with green upholstery and a built-in banquette, offering space for up to eight people.

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photo: REVENY
cozy dining room with william morris wallpaper
photo: REVENY

You can’t go wrong with William Morris wallpaper. This dining room in a stately apartment features the Pimpernel wallpaper paired with wooden floorboards, antique furniture, and art.

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photo: Inigo
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photo: Inigo

The dining room in a Georgian country house features a white-painted paneled ceiling, an antique table, and a lovely window bench.

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photo: Widerlöv
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photo: Widerlöv

A dining room with a view in a pink Swedish villa. It features pink-painted walls and a large wooden table in front of the windows, overlooking the Stockholm archipelago.

terracotta colored dining room garden doors
photo: Inigo

The dining room in a carefully restored Georgian townhouse features a fireplace salvaged from the Eccentric Club in St James’s and curved half-glazed doors that bring in light and connect the room with the garden.

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styling by Copparstad and photography by Jahnson for Historiska Hem
dining room with gallery wall
styling by Copparstad and photography by Jahnson for Historiska Hem

The dining room in a bohemian-style house on the estate of a Swedish castle is decorated with art and plants. The rustic table offers plenty of space for long dinner parties.

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photo: bo-laget

The dining room in a Swedish family home features a large wooden table surrounded by a lovely mixture of wooden chairs. The windows on two sides offer lovely views of the garden.

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photo: Domus Nova

The dining room in an eclectic Victorian penthouse is bathed in an uplifting peach tone and crowned by generous skylights. An artful distressed mirrored wall, decorated with colorful birds, adds an eclectic flourish.

rustic wooden dining table and fireplace
photo: Inigo
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photo: Inigo
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photo: Inigo

Limewashed walls, wide oak floorboards, and rustic furniture transform this front room in an English cottage into a serene and inviting dining room.

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photo: Inigo

The dining room in a carefully restored Arts and Crafts house in Scotland is a wonderful space with Arts and Crafts paneling and a fireplace with original ochre-colored glazed tiles

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styling by Copparstad and photography by Boukari for Historiska Hem

Floral wallpaper, a pink rug, and light blue woodwork turn this open-plan dining area in a colorful Swedish villa into a cheerful interior space.

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photo: Fantastic Frank Barcelona

The dining area in an open-plan Spanish house is defined by a large pink rug, which sits between the sitting area and the kitchen. The kitchen is partially hidden from view thanks to the custom bookcase doorway.

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