Do You Decorate Your Dining Room Table? If So, How?

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I'm not as much interested in autumn / Thanksgiving / Christmas / other holidays during the last three months of the year (though I am and may start another discussion focusing on that) as I am in what you do all year. Do you keep it bare, have a tablecloth, use place settings, use pottery or bread bowls, keep a dish of fruit, have attractive piles of books, keep a collection of whatevers on it? Do you switch it around? Or do you like it clean and unadorned except maybe for a vase of fresh flowers?

I have debated all of these things since I finally cleaned off the vision board supplies I had been keeping on there for more than a year.

Right now, I have a single handmade cornhusk pumpkin. It appeals to me so I am already thinking ahead into the new year and what might make me happy at home. I do keep a fresh flower bouquet every week in my office, but cannot do so at home because I have three cats who will chew on anything living. I lean toward quality minimalism.

What do you do?

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Patricia Colwell Consulting

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I have a large bowl sometimes empty sometimes filled with fruit and sometimes a bowl of frest flowers sittin in the bowl I have fresh flowers most of the year from the supermarket not expensive and really nise to have. Sometimes on my kitchen counter and sometimes on thetable . At christmas I fill the bowl with sparkly "pears "

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marylut
last year
Thanks for asking! I am in open floor plan. I switch color scheme 2x yr (aqua, light blue, spring green in high temp mo, and blue-green, navy, cranberry in low temp). The drapes and rugs incorporate all those colors. I switch out DR (where we eat all meals) placemats and napkins, Kit and bathroom towels, LR pillow covers and throws, flower arrangements and vases, coffee table books.
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marylut
last year
I appreciate your lovely tactile handmade pumpkin, but my 2 fur babies would rip it apart.
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kcooz07
last year
I have two pottery pieces on it all the time (no tablecloth/placemats etc.,) which get removed when it is decorated for Fall and Christmas.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
10 months ago
Pretty simple usually just a bowl with either just empty or maybe some seasonal decor in the bowl if I like something. I like the pumkin but would always say october to me but really whatever you like is right. I always have a vase of fresh flowers in my kitchen but it is ope n to the DR in this new house so I get to enjoy the flowers all the time but I did have cats so I understand.
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la_la Girl
10 months ago
I have a very large wooden table and like contrast & simplicity so usually have something oversized and ceramic on the table - fall is a collection of white ceramic pumpkins, my go to xmas centerpiece is an oversized enamelware tub filled with vintage Christmas balls - but I ❤️ patina
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arcy_gw
10 months ago
At the moment we have an advent wreath and candy advent calendar reminding us of the season. There's only two of us so we have plenty of room. I love my tree motif table cloth paired with my Christmas dishes, none match. It reminds me of a Christmas tree with all it's beautiful ornaments.
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njmomma
10 months ago
Post is from 2024
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
10 months ago
Who cares I try to avoid old posts but oh well
Aphaea
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10 months ago
last modified: 10 months ago
Dereck, Patricia and everyone else, it was I who made the original post. And I appreciate your comments on it from yesterday. It doesn't seem out of date. I'm still around.
auntthelma
10 months ago
Yes. My table is always decorated. With placemats and candles and usually, a simple centerpiece.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
10 months ago
I agree sometimes these are just a good read from time to time no specific timeframe at all.