Dining Room Decor idea

Found this awesome house on Elements of Style (one of my favorite blogs) today.  It's a home built into rocks on the Puget Sound.  As if the house isn't cool enough already, check out what they did to the inside.

My favorite room is, hands down, the dining room/living room combo.  This swanky chandelier reminds me of the one in our house, that Rick despises and I threaten to paint a cool color.  We have an old picnic/barn type table as our dining table, and I really love the juxtaposition of that with the chandelier.

Anyway, we have been discussing doing some large format pictures (possibly my dad's pics from Pawleys) on the wall in there.  When I saw this post, it just reminded me of our dining room. 

Husband, what do you think?