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A before photo of a dining room with pine boards up half of the wall that has windows with interior shutters. A small table with two chairs is positioned in the middle of the room.

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Dining Room Quick Fix (before)

How do you lighten up your dining room without making a lot of costly changes? Interior designer Jeffrey Marks provides some useful lessons at his own beach house, where a low ceiling, knotty pine wainscoting, and old-fashioned shutters made the room feel cramped and tired.

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family room wall with gallery layout of framed prints, paintings and mirrors hung over a red couch with pillows

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A bright, white dining room with crisp, white cloth shades over the windows and a large circular wooden dining room table with pale, yellow legs and white chairs surround it

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16 of 29 A before photo of a dining room with pine boards up half of the wall that has windows with interior shutters. A small table with two chairs is positioned in the middle of the room.