Readers’ Choice Best Dining Room Winner

As an interior designer, Antonio Martins is well-aware of the trend towards large open spaces that incorporate living room, dining room and kitchen all in one. But when he moved into his 1896 San Francisco Victorian, complete with a formal dining room measuring a mere 14 feet square, the last thing he wanted to do was knock down any walls. “I love to do the proper dining room thing,” says Martins, who has hosted seated dinner parties for as many as 16.

To read more about how he did it, check out the next issue of CH+D, on newsstands in July.