Tablecloths: Interior Design & Home Decorating Ideas for the Dining Room

Series Summary

Decorating our homes may be just one of the things that sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. With the principles of the Eastern and Western aesthetic in hand, a flair for design, and an eye for color, interior designers and decorators can transform any space from drab to fab, creating an inviting environment conducive to family time, creative endeavors, gourmet cooking, intimacy, social gatherings, work, or a host of other activities. Often times the average Joe or Jill find themselves at a loss as to what to do to transform their home and bring some more excitement to life.

In this free home interior design video series, get decorating ideas and tips to give your dining room an extreme makeover. Our expert will show you how to choose a tablecloth appropriate for the size and shape of your dining room table, as well as how to re-upholster a side chair, and how to create decorative tablescape centerpieces for holiday occasions like Christmas or Thanksgiving. Use these decorating tips as a springboard to create your very own look and feel. After all, it’s your home, and you have to live in it.

Video Transcript

" My name is Judy Williams representing expertvillage.com, and today we are talking about different ways to decorate your dining room. The first thing we talk about is selecting tablecloths. You want to, when you can, select a tablecloth that is the shape of your table. This table of course is oval, but you don't have to; you could select as I did on this a rectangular tablecloth and it would hang very nicely. You want the tablecloth when you are serving a meal to be about 9-11 inches hanging on each end. I enjoying changing tablecloths with the season and with whatever event I might be having some folks in for a meal. And you will notice on this is a solid color. In redecorating my dining room, I have a shading of this salmon color, and this is one of the colors that I carry throughout my home. So I utilize that in my dining room; it blends very nicely with the stripes and picks it up, and you will see that I used this multicolor stripe cushion of fabric to recover my chair cushions. "