How to Get Your Dining Room Christmas Ready

With the holiday season fast approaching and the prospect of having many guests over, you might be looking at your dining room and its furniture wondering how to transform it into the perfect Christmas dining room. This is easily achievable with just a few creative tweaks and can create a warm, inviting and Christmassy feeling in your dining room. Here are just a few tips that can help you achieve that perfect Christmas experience:

1. Festive Table Setting

A simple yet often forgotten part of your dining room décor is using a tablecloth or runner to put over your table to bring some colour. You can use a tablecloth consisting of rich reds, deep greens or glamorous gold to create that Christmas feel and look. Then to compliment the tablecloth or runner you can use matching napkins, placemats and other table items like glasses and plates to bring the whole look together. Also, to create a classic Christmas look you can choose designs that use holly leaves or snowflakes to fully embrace that Christmas spirit.

2. Create a Captivating Centrepiece

The focal point of any table, the centrepiece is crucial in solidifying the theme you are going for and when done wrong can completely derail what you are going for. To create that ideal Christmas look you can surround your centrepiece with a variety of décor like sprigs of holly or any holiday baubles. Alongside more fragrant choices like fresh greenery or cinnamon sticks to add that holiday fragrance to your dining table. Alternatively, you can make the centrepiece a decorative bowl that is filled with holiday ornaments or even a small Christmas tree to add that little bit of charm to your table.

3. Transform Your Dining Chairs

Your dining chairs can also add to the holiday cheer with the right decorations and complement the rest of your dining room furniture. Consider dressing them up with chair covers in festive hues or adding cushions with holiday motifs. For a subtle look, opt for simple red or green chair sashes or bows, while chair backs can be adorned with small wreaths or decorative baubles to complete the festive transformation.

4. Set the Ambiance with Lighting

Like with any room in your house, the correct lighting can make or break the atmosphere you are trying to achieve. So, to achieve that Christmas feel the correct lighting is vital. This can be done using fairy lights draped across the windows in your dining room or along the walls to bring a warm glow. You can also go more traditional using candles, whether they be on your dining table or elsewhere, adding those bits of light across the room to create a soft and elegant look.

5. Add Christmas-themed Decorative Accessories

As mentioned earlier with the small bits of décor there are a range of other accessories that you can use to create an immersive Christmas setting. Whether that be putting up wreaths or garlands, stockings hung on the chairs, small bits of mistletoe in the doorways or even a bit of tinsel added here or there. There are a variety of accessories you can use to liven up your dining room, including ones you might not think of like mirrors to make sure that the cheer is seen and they can be used as a way to put up more decorations like tinsels or lights by draping them across the mirror.

6. Consider the Furniture Arrangement

With everything from the chairs to the décor sorted the last step is deciding how they should be organised to create comfortable accommodation. The primary goal is to ensure that there is enough space for everyone to sit comfortably and that everything is easy to access. So, having clear walkways is crucial as the rush of the holidays can mean a lot of walking around the dining room can occur. However, you do not want one part of your dining room to feel too congested, so adding a smaller table to put extra food and drink on can help with making the room feel less congested and stop overcrowding of one table if you are having a large gathering.

Final Thoughts

We hope these tips have helped you get an idea of what you can do to make your dining room embody the Christmas spirit and capture its magic with help from our range. From having the perfect table setting to various festive bits of décor, all these elements help create an inviting environment for whoever you are inviting around this holiday season.

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