Dream Team

The Dining Room

The dining room is a place that is used for dining and celebrating milestones. It's an important room for socializing with family and close friends. With the changes in way people live over the past 25 years, the dining room has transformed into a less formal space.

The mix of stone, wood, textured drapery and an Asian-influenced armoire allow familiar icons to be blended in a contemporary style. The feeling conveys both a quiet elegance and unfussy luxury at the same time. For that reason there is an deliberate omission of opulence and pretension.

This is a room that was created with the intent that people will gladly flow into it during a large gathering without the usual feeling of not stepping over the threshold into the "formal dining room." It will also feel comfortable and relaxed when overnight guests wake up to enjoy an informal brunch or lunch.

Biography

Susan Orpin is the Principal Interior Designer for The Orpin Group, a sophisticated residential commercial interior design firm. Essentially a contemporary and transitional designer, Orpin is known for her perceptive space planning, careful detailing, dramatic lighting, fresh exploration of materials and the refined union of old and new.

Her accomplishments include six and a half years in mentorship with Celeste Cooper, managing the design department at the renowned interior design atelier of Repertoire. Orpin worked on award-winning projects including XV Beacon Hotel, The Federalist Restaurant and Teatro Restaurant all located in Boston, MA. She has other projects in Chicago, New York, Arizona and Miami. Ms. Orpin's current project list includes The Residences at the Intercontinental, Stella Restaurant, Sorellina Restaurant, 45 Province Street, The Bryant, Landana Restaurant and numerous private residences.

Orpin has been published in Metropolitan Home, New England Home, and BostonGlobe Magazine. Her residential project was aired on New England Dream Home, an NECN network program.

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