How to Arrange Dining table

The dining table it’s an inviting place, where you can gather with your family and friends to enjoy some delicious food. But it’s really not easy to decorate dining room. In this article, we arranged some basic tricks to arrange a perfect dining table for your guests. Whether you are planning for a get-together or lunch these tips will surely help you. So let’s have a look.

Analyze Your Space

1. Measure the dimensions of your room and draw a sketch of the space on grid paper, using a scale, for example, of 1 square to 1 foot. Note the placement and dimensions of windows and doors. This planning is useful because of the relative inflexibility of furniture arrangement in a dining room; sooner or later, the chairs need to be drawn up to the table, and this configuration dominates the room.

2. Assess the relationship between your planned seating arrangement and the location of your windows. Especially if your family eats frequently in the dining room, you want to prevent glare in the eyes of people seated at the table. Even if you use your dining room mostly for entertaining, this can be a factor in arranging the seating for weekend luncheons or Sunday brunch.

3. Walk through the mechanics of serving a meal from kitchen to dining room. This will help you decide where to put serving or storage cabinets, so that you do not have to maneuver around chairs to the far end of the table in order to set down a heavy platter or other serving dish.

Place Furniture

1. Place the hardest-to-fit and bulkiest piece of furniture first. This can be anything from your grandmother's Welsh dresser to the teak sideboard you bought at auction. While this violates the classic vision of a table centered under an also-centered lighting fixture, it lets you use your remaining floor space more efficiently than centering the table and then expecting to tuck other furniture pieces against the walls.

2. Place your table where it is most accessible to guests and hosts. This means, by and large, placing it so that it can be easily walked around, preventing guests from squeezing past each other to sit down and making it possible for a hostess to serve without straining.

3. Move a light fixture, if necessary, rather than struggling to place the table under it. This lets you use your space most effectively and will certainly be less expensive than buying new furniture. Mount a hanging fixture between 3 and 5 feet above the table surface, thus providing enough light for the table and occupants but preventing glare in diners' eyes. Use wall sconces instead to provide even light throughout the room. Use low-wattage or candle-flame bulbs to soften the light, and consider placing one or more mirrors in your dining room to add reflected light.

4. Put regularly empty chairs against the walls, in the corners or even in another room. Guests will feel less hemmed in if there is no empty chair next to them, and the meal will seem more complete without empty places at the table. If you are using all of your chairs on a regular basis, consider some folding chairs to provide extra company or holiday seating. Store those chairs out of sight until needed.

5. Incorporate a bench or even a window seat as part of your seating. This may allow you to establish a dining area that would be too crowded with the full complement of chairs. A bench seats a flexible number of people, especially children, and may be the perfect solution for freeing a chair for an unexpected guest.