My take on British Colonial Style in my Dining Room

I love British Colonial Style and lately I have found myself PINning a ton of inspirational Pictures on Pinterest. If you want to see what I’ve been pinning, check out my British Colonial Style Pin Board. And if you are not already, I encourage you to Follow Me On Pinterest, because I am constantly pinning Amazing home inspiration pictures that I come across on a daily basis.

So my dining room might not necessarily be screaming British Colonial Style, but I feel like I have added in enough special Key touches to get away with calling it, “My Take on British Colonial style”. As we go through my pictures, I’m going to point out some of those special Key touches that I’ve added.

First of all, Wicker! Probably why I’m drawn to British Colonial style in the first place is because this style uses a ton of wicker. So here I have a wicker chair, a wicker lampshade, and a stack of wicker trunks and picnic baskets. Trunks are also seen a lot in British Colonial Style.

My dining chairs are still painted green from when I painted them last summer (seen HERE) but I’m currently debating if I want to repaint them again or not. I’m thinking a dark brown color or something that looks more like wood/natural wicker would be nice. We’ll see, but for now the green still works perfectly fine.

The bouquet of tropical flowers also brings in that British Colonial Style. Aren’t these flowers Gorgeous with a capital G?

These flowers were actually given to me by my work. They ordered them from a company called The Bouqs Co. I’m Telling Ya, if you are needing to order flowers for someone, be sure to check out The Bouqs Co. because they have such beautiful flowers. And just a Reminder that Valentine’s day is just around the corner and these would be perfect. They also offer Flower Subscriptions, which who wouldn’t love?

The only problem with these flowers is that they were delivered to my work office, and they ended up sitting outside in the freezing cold for the whole weekend, so they are a bit wilted and definitely won’t have the longevity that they deserve.

But I am Still enjoying them so much and loving how much beauty they add to our dining room. Truthfully, I kinda wish that these flowers were fake just so that I could enjoy them longer. I wonder if they will dry pretty? If not, Perhaps I should consider getting some faux tropical stems.

I should also mention that I did rearrange my flowers a little better after I took these pictures. I’m a little embarrassed by how “Plopped in the Pitcher” they look here. I love to play around with floral arrangements and this was Not my best work. HA! Anyway Moving on.

Dark wood is probably #1 on the list for British Colonial Style. So the dark picture frame and the wood crate that’s on the table are helping me to achieve the look. However, the blue chandelier might be throwing the whole look off, or not. I haven’t decided yet.

That Palm Tree picture is right on target for British Colonial Style. I actually picked that up at a yard sale years ago. I’m kicking myself now though because that picture was from a set with a couple of other different but similar style prints, but I had passed on the others and just took this one. Now I wish I had just grabbed the others in the set. Oh Well!

The bamboo plate tower is perfect British Colonial style as well. Bamboo, Rattan, Wicker, Cane, …. all of it. And I love it all!

Perhaps, that’s it for what decor I have in the room that I’m calling British Colonial Style. But I feel like this is a direction that I want to continue going in and so I may just keep incorporating more and more of this style into our home.

And Yes, I know, I know, I took way to many pictures of our dining room and I had the hardest time deciding which ones to post, so I’m basically posting all of them. I apologize, but to be completely honest, This is the best our dining room has ever looked in my opinion. I tend to struggle decorating this room and these little touches that I’ve added just make this room look so much better then it ever has before.

Even though the Marlin is not British Colonial Style Per-say, I’m still keeping it up on the wall because I really love it.

Have I ever told you the story of this marlin? it’s quite funny. This Marlin use to be our uncles, and one day I was helping the Uncle clean and get ready to move and I came across a black stick and I just threw it away in the trash. I later found out that that black stick was actually the marlin’s nose and it just needed to be glued back on. Oops! So now this marlin just has a short nose and nobody will ever let me forget that I just threw it away.

Oh wait, I almost forgot, there is one more thing that I’ve added to this room and it’s my New Curtains. I recently Blogged about these curtains, and in that post I’m sharing a special discount code for you. So Check it out HERE if you are interested in getting some new curtains too. I love these curtains.

These are the flying Crane Pattern Blackout curtains and I think that they too have a British Colonial look to them. Something about the cranes, the woven sea grass pattern in them, and the color pallet of these curtains definitely passes as British Colonial style. At least I think so.

I just really like these curtains a lot. They are such a big change from the curtains I had hanging previously.

So after I was done taking all of these pictures, I threw a tropical print throw pillow onto the wicker chair and liked it enough to get my camera back out to take a few last pictures.

I also grabbed a shot or two of the red couch from across the room. Kinda fun to see how all of the colors in our home flow together.

Like I recently said in an instagram post, Outside might be the Dead of Winter, but inside our home, it feels like a Summer Beach House.

You can see more of the living room side of the room in This Post that I just shared called, Tropical Decor in our Living Room.

Now I leave this blog post today with two last pictures; the one above and this next one. The sun was shining in on our dining room last Saturday Morning and it looked so warm and cozy that I just had to snap a picture. This next picture just shows how I use our dining room table as my office. I’m actually sitting here now as I type this blog post.

So what do you think of my take on British Colonial Style in our dining room?

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Thanks for stopping by,

Emily