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Sara Hesikova

Struggling to find a seat for everyone this Christmas? Clever tricks to comfortably fit the whole family into your living and dining rooms this festive season

A dining room with a round table decorated for Christmas with stools and ottomans used for extra seating, as well as colourful stacked stools.

If you’re hosting Christmas or having other guests over this festive season, you’ll need to extend your home to a larger group of people than it is normally used to. And while it is recommended to be prepared for these types of occasions ahead of time, if you are only now realising that you might struggle to offer everyone a proper seat both when entertaining in the living room and when serving dinner, we have some extra seating tricks recommended by experts.

While it’s all good and well to incorporate some Christmas living room decor ideas into your lounge and create a beautiful seasonal tablescape in the dining room, the practicalities like being able to offer everyone in the extended family a seat should not be forgotten. But luckily there are several ways you can create extra seating in your home that won’t take up too much space when not in use either.

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