3 country Christmas dining table looks

Make Christmas lunch extra special with these stunning ideas for festive dining tables. Those country decorating gurus at Country Home & Interiors have picked their best-dressed tables to suit your style.

Elegant country Christmas dining table

Use contemporary toile fabrics on Gustavian chairs and a tablecloth in matching fabric to create a co-ordinated look. Add a fun touch with strings of fairy lights.

Be inspired by Swedish country style for a formal Christmas dining room

Easy-going country Christmas dining table

Dress a farmhouse table with French vintage linen runners laid across rather than down the table. Choose wooden placemats to complement plain crockery and simple candlelight.

Make guests feel instantly at home with a relaxed rustic farmhouse look this Christmas

Romantic country Christmas dining table

Create a lavish look on your Christmas table with an embroidered runner, crystal candlesticks, golden dining plates, gilded glasses and opulent table decorations displayed on a cakestand.

For a magical, intimate Christmas meal, bring together sparkling fairytale details

Budget-busting Christmas dining room update

No time? No money? No problem! Ideal Home‘s cash clever decorator has some great tips for updating your dining room for Christmas if all that money has gone on your kids’ gift list! I love this modern take on Scandi-chic, and I love even more, that it won’t break the bank!

Here are some cost-friendly tips:

1) Instead of a runner, use long lengths of ribbon to give a white tablecloth a festive touch

2) Paint a picture frame (without the glass) and stick a silhouette decoration to it.

3) Transform dining chairs with personalised chunky metal letters tied with red ribbon. These designs only cost a tenner from Emily Readett-Bayley!

Transform your dining room into a Christmas haven without breaking the bank

Festive Fetish: Foliage and Frost

Now that’s a lot of F words for one morning!! I really enjoy this idea for festive feasting though (sorry, it’s addictive!) it’s simply stylish, it’s sophisticated and it’s easy to put together if you’re running low on time.

For a chic country Christmas dining room like this one, white-painted furniture and a nature-inspired subtle wallpaper is ideal, but don’t worry if not – just pack your dining room full of realistic-looking greenery, frosted pine cones and wicker pieces!

Keep tableware simple, but pile on the sparkle with a mix of silver and white Christmas decorations in a range of textures and finishes.

Give your dining room an enchanting country feel this Christmas

Festive Fetish: blue and silver Christmas

Blue is a great accent colour for Christmas if you’re going for a show-stopping modern look. I love these Christmas decorating schemes from Livingetc – they’re packed with ways to introduce blue into your scheme without making it seem cold and uninviting.

Save space on your Christmas dining table by hanging your centrepiece above it instead. Strung with baubles and lights, this is a sleek modern alternative to candles and holly.

Create an elegant, modern bauble display above your Christmas dining table

Unite rustic wood, aged metal and glitter for a cool update on the traditional festive star constellation.

Modern Scandi-chic Christmas living room with blue accents

Deck the halls with floor-to-ceiling glitzy sparkle and boughs of holly for a bit of tradition.

Christmas party ideas for the hallway!

Christmas past… doily dining room

I love this quirky dining room idea… not sure I’d do it myself… but it’s certainly memorable. The ghost of Christmas past meets the ghost of Christmas future as the classic Victorian-style doily meets modern red furniture and accessories.

To get the look, stitch doilies together in a delicate tablecloth, or use frills on fairy lights for a dramy, dinner-time garland.

Update your Christmas dining room with doilies!

Can I come in? Modern country Christmas home

Happy Christmas week everyone! I’m going to devote the next couple of days (oh let’s face it, the next FIVE DAYS) to squeezing in as many inspiring Christmas ideas as humanly possible. I’ve seen so many beautiful ideas in the magazines this month and it seems a shame not to share them – especially if you, like me, have been too busy rushing around the shops to calmly browse through the latest issues.

Take a tour around Livingetc‘s Christmas house of the month, a chic farmhouse with a modern twist – it’s stunning!

Traditional furniture pieces get a modern update with vibrant red accents and oversized decorations.

Find modern country Christmas living room decorating inspiration

Cosy and atmospheric, this dining room is the perfect place for a Christmas feast.

Update a traditional dining room with eye-catching Christmas decorations

This bedroom is gorgeous all year round – I love how the stocking matches the rest of the scheme!

Add shimmer and sparkle to your bedroom this Christmas

Create a country-style Christmas dining table

I love this idea-packed Christmas decorating video. This is exactly the sort of Christmas dining table look I want to achieve this year. It’s smart, elegant and has just enough country-style chic to make Christmas lunch as warm and cosy as it is filling!

Watch on for fantastic tips on jazzing up your Christmas dining table.

Christmas decorating looks: The White Company

Christmas Envy

noun

• a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by the fact it’s freezing and yet isn’t Christmas time yet. She felt a twinge of Christmas envy while looking at this year’s Christmas range by The White Company.

• (the Christmas envy of) a decoration that inspires envy: The The White Company‘s laid back festive style and modern country chic is the Christmas envy of… Jenny!

Add subtle festive touches to your front door this Christmas

Add shimmer and sparkle to your Christmas dining table with metallic accessories and LED Christmas lights

Liven up your Christmas mantelpiece with a mini Christmas tree and mini gift boxes filled with chocolate

Christmas dining rooms – my favourite 5

It’s officially the run-down to Christmas (my advent calendar assures me so) and i’m getting really excited about putting up my decorations this weekend.

I’ve been finding dining room decorating inspiration this morning, here are my favourite festive schemes.

This country cottage Christmas dining room is so warm, cosy and welcoming. You can take a tour around the rest of this Christmas country cottage on housetohome. Invites to come round for Christmas lunch are most welcome!

roomenvy - country cottage Christmas dining room

This modern Christmas dining room is certainly eye-catching. I love the candy pink dining table and silver decorations.

roomenvy - modern Christmas dining room

The hanging stars and snowflakes look fantastic in this dining room dining room, so much more than just a fancy Christmas table setting.

roomenvy - star-studded Christmas dining room

A fan of all things country style, this Christmas dining room is definitely at the top of my ‘lust list’.

roomenvy - country charm Christmas dining room

Draw attention to your festive table, by hanging shimmering glass baubles overhead. I really like the candelabras in this dining room they make a great high-impact, low-effort Christmas table centrepiece.

roomenvy - oversized Christmas baubles dining room

Feeling inspired? Check out this great guide to laying a Christmas table.

Subtly seasonal

Don’t want to go overboard with your dining room Christmas decorations? This scheme looks just as good with a small tree in the corner and a pretty floral centrepiece. I love that geometric ceiling light, too.

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