Your dining room furniture ensemble is a great way to display your home decorating style. Before you can shop for the perfect dining table, you’ll have to figure out exactly which style best exemplifies your personality. Below we’ll lay out the main elements of a few different style categories so that you can pinpoint the one that is the most you. Once you’ve figured out your favorite style (or blend of styles), picking out the perfect dining room...
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Your carefully chosen dining room furniture ensemble will certainly be a beautiful work of fine craftsmanship, but it isn’t meant for display. It will be the centerpiece of dozens—perhaps hundreds!—of memorable gatherings. Today’s blog is the final installment in our three-part series on hosting the perfect dinner party, so it’s a fitting time to focus on unforgettable final touches.
At this point in party planning, the big...
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In our last post we discussed setting the perfect tabletop for a dinner party. Now that your dining room table is fully dressed (minus the tablecloth—you don’t want to hide the glamour of your solid wood dining table!), you can focus on one of our favorite pastimes: party planning.
Look at Logistics
How many people are you inviting? This will be the main determinant of whether you seat everyone at your...
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Remember the scene in Pretty Woman where Julia Roberts gets a lesson in fine dining? You probably empathized as you were watching, thinking, “I’ve never known which fork to use, either!” Unless you grew up with Emily Post’s book, Etiquette, on your nightstand or went to finishing school, it’s likely that how to set the perfect dining room table has yet to be part of your education. That is, until now.
Not Your Ordinary Dinner...
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Solid wood dining room furniture is built to last a lifetime—or several lifetimes, if you show it the right amount of TLC. Follow this How-To guide on wood furniture care to ensure your pieces remain show-worthy by the time they reach your grandchildren’s homes.
Is the piece really solid wood?
First things first: make sure your dining room set is the real deal. Solid wood means that all exposed parts of the furniture are made of solid board....
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The blazing hot temperatures of summer are still very present, but we’re mentally jumping ahead to fall. Daydreaming about cooler weather. Picturing fall’s rich colors filtering throughout your home. Making a checklist of outdoor preparations that need to be done. Oh yes, there’s a lot to do! Let’s get a head start on the next season.
The Dining Room Makeover
When the weather turns cooler, one of the easiest rooms to transition is your dining room....
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As summer winds down, stores are trying to move their summer inventory and make room for fall wares. This is great news for all you buyers out there. If you’re looking for a dining table deal, then the time is right. If you’re more interested in what’s next—the upcoming dining room furniture styles, then this is also the time to see the newest furniture lines online and on showroom floors. Take stock of your dining room furniture needs, and lets go shopping!
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Imagine this scene for a moment: You’ve found the perfect dinette set. Your dining room table is set as if House Beautiful is coming by to photograph your home today. And you’ve cooked a meal that would make Martha Stewart jealous.
This is picture-perfect, right? It is the dining table that every family should be rushing to dine at. But your family is nowhere to be seen. What gives?
Getting your family to the dining room table is a...
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Since no one can anticipate every future dinner party, we can’t see a reason that everyone shouldn’t covet—and have!—an extendable dining room table. The three main types of dining room tables that extend are those with removable leafs, a butterfly extension, or a drop leaf. The first type of dining table is pretty self explanatory, so we’ll focus on the latter two.
The Butterfly Leaf
What exactly is a butterfly leaf?...
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It seems there’s been a major oversight in the land of dining room furniture. When is the last time you heard the round dining table being celebrated? Retailers should be singing the praises of round tables from the rooftops. Its selling points will make you instantly rethink that classic trestle table: guests can easily interact with one another; no one needs to pass the food—everyone can reach; and with pedestal tables, there’s always room to squeeze one more person in...
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