How Do You Decorate My Dining Room Table?
Decorating a dining table works best when you remember it is a working surface first, and anything that has to be moved before people can eat is in the wrong place. This guide sets out a layered approach: a permanent base of a runner and one low focal point, plus a top layer of candles and fuller arrangements that appears for meals. We cover why a centrepiece should sit below 30cm to 35cm, how a row of three items suits a long table better than one large object in the middle, and why seasonal foliage is more practical than weekly cut flowers. There is detail on runners against full cloths, how candlelight at table height changes a room more than any other single element, and how to style timber, glass, high gloss and marble tops differently. We close with the four mistakes that undo an otherwise good scheme....