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Your Christmas Table - Decorating Your Holiday Season Dining Table Beautifully

A beautifully decorated Christmas table sets the tone for the entire holiday décor and can serve as the room's whole focal point. Whether you'll be entertaining friends and family for a grand dinner or having a quiet, smaller celebration, with some imagination and a few simple ideas you can create an eye-catching display that will be your best Christmas table yet!

First you'll want to decide to use a tablecloth along with placemats, or placements by themselves, or perhaps, neither of these choices. If you do use a tablecloth, be sure to use one that isn't too busy so that it takes away from your centerpiece or the table settings.

The Comforting Glow of Christmas Candles

There's nothing better for the Christmas table than the comforting glow of candles. And, with the incredible variety of shapes, sizes, and colors to choose from, you won't have any trouble creating a pretty arrangement. When grouping candles together, stick with sets of odd numbers and add to their interest with garland, evergreens, or some of your favorite Christmas ornaments.

Christmas Centerpieces for Any Décor

Using a few simple pillar candles, a decorative platter or tray, and some embellishments you can create a "forest" of candles atop your Christmas table. If you already have a platter or tray that you'd like to use for your centerpiece, choose candles in a complementary color, or simply cover a plain tray with aluminum foil if you're using colors such as blues, silvers, and whites, or use a few pieces of thick gift wrap instead.

Now add the pillars, use at least three for a grouping, and arrange sprigs of either artificial or fresh evergreens around the candles. Again, use real or fake berries to add color to the greens. You could also add some artificial "snow" either in the form of flakes or the soft, cottony type. If you'd like to add a few smaller pillars, use small candle holders turned upside down to act as risers to create varying heights.

Flowers, real or artificial, blend in well with any type of décor and are always appreciated at the table. Use them in round bowls, crystal vases and fill with either plain or colored water, or for the fake variety, fill with marbles, stones, gems, greenery, or either plain or spray painted pinecones. Poinsettias, evergreens, mistletoe, and holly are always appropriate for Christmas decorating, just be sure to keep all live plants far away from both children and pets.

If your table is on the small side, remember that your centerpiece should be as well as a larger one impedes conversation and makes everyone feel cramped.

Sparkling Christmsa Table Settings

Use some simple multi-colored or white, sparkling glitter and spread around the tablecloth or atop the placemats to draw extra attention to your place settings, but this idea is always best if there won't be any little ones joining you for dinner. Use your best china, or if you have holiday dinnerware, use that along with pretty silverware and matching serving dishes, gravy boats and the like. Don't forget the napkins, napkin holders and the glasses as well.

Using Christmas Lights and Ornaments to Decorate All of Your Tables

Before you start decorating your tables with lights and ornaments, begin with a beautiful tablecloth or a piece of fabric you've spotted recently that would make the ideal base for your main Christmas table. Try to stick with one, solid color so that the lights and ornaments are what attracts the eye and not an overwhelming pattern, and don’t limit yourself by just decorating the dining room table as end, side, and coffee tables can all be done as well.

Displaying Your Cherished Ornaments

Use glass bowls, vases or containers to display your most favorite ornaments on all of the tables and illuminate them with strands of battery-operated Christmas lights placed at the bottom. Battery-operated candles also help to enhance the lights and create an even warmer glow to the room especially when keeping the lights dim.

If those types of lights aren't an option, trying running a strand or two of the regular Christmas lights down through the center of the table if you have one with a separation in the middle or one with extra pieces to be added to make it larger, in order to reach the outlet. If not, you can always hide the wire with things such as tinsel, garland or evergreens.

If you have any special ornaments that feature images of the first Holy Nativity, the birth of baby Jesus, use those as the focal point of a side or coffee table and decorate the rest accordingly with figurines, and of course, a lighted star of Bethlehem.

Besides arranging ornaments on a decorative platter or tray, or with glass bowls so they can be admired by all, you can also use the most special of Christmas ornaments as napkin holders. Or, buy new, plain ornaments either in the same or differing colors and stencil or paint the guest's names on each to serve as the name cards for the place settings.

With a hot glue gun, or a piece of decorative ribbon for those extra delicate ornaments, you can create one-of-a-kind napkin holders or place cards to welcome your guests to the dining table for Christmas lunch or dinner. Purchase plain, inexpensive cloth napkins, roll each one up neatly and keep in place by tying an ornament with ribbon or tulle and wrapping around the napkin, or using the glue gun to securely attach them to the ribbon first.

Another interesting idea is to use ornaments tied to the four corners of the tablecloth to act as weights would if you were outdoors having a picnic, but in this case, they'll merely be for decorative purposes.