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Homes & Gardens
Sarah Warwick

5 things designers say you should never put on a dining room table

Three dining tables showing things which should be put there.

At the center of a space, a dining table deserves to be a chic feature. But when adding decorative elements, designers caution that there are some things you should never put on a dining room table if you want it to look stylish and make guests feel at ease.

Whether you regularly entertain, or gather the family around the table, and whether the table is located in a separate room, or in a zone of an open-concept layout dining room ideas should be beautiful as well as practical, and that includes when dressing the table.

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