We’re turning the spotlight on the Thanksgiving dinner table. The big feast day is now just five days away. Sure, the table is the place where the holiday bird takes center stage with it’s supporting cast of side dishes, but it’s also where you can show off your decorating prowess, even if you don’t consider yourself in the same league as Martha Stewart.
Here are more ways you can add spark to your holiday dinner table:
Consider skipping the traditional fall gimmicks of pinecones, pumpkins and plastic turkey table toppers and brightening your table with fresh chrysanthemums or a glass cube filled with orange, yellow and white roses. Let’s face it, flowers and plants are beautiful additions to any table and you can carry the theme over to mantel tops and other surfaces throughout the room.
Light It Up
For an elegant look you could dot your Thanksgiving dinner table with gold or yellow tea candles. For another take on candles, try lining the center of the table with glass hurricane candle holders, or letting candleholders do double duty as place card holders—simply attach name cards made out of heavy duty card stock to the base of a small votive candle holders and place by each table setting.
Leave It To Leaves
Sure, you can find napkins and tablecloths embossed with fall-associated imagery such as acorns, leaves and pumpkins, but why not branch out? Crate & Barrel offers earthenware plates with an autumn touch: salad plates shaped like pressed leaves in shades of green, brown, russet and cream.
China-less Thanksgiving
If you have formal china that you traditionally break out once a year on Thanksgiving—great. However, formal china is expensive and if you haven’t inherited a set or received pieces as wedding gifts then you’re likely looking for alternative “nests” in which to place your Thanksgiving bird. My advice: think classy looking pottery dishes. Hey, if it’s good enough for Martha Stewart (the domestic diva offers easy-care ceramics through her Martha Stewart Everyday line) then it’s good enough for me. You can also stock up on durable earthenware at your local department stores. Glass dinnerware and serving pieces also offer other alternatives to china.
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