What's on Your Formal Dining Room Table

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In terms of decor what is on your dining room table. Runner or Table cloth?  Anything else like a bowl or candlesticks.  Additionally, where do you liek to buy these items?

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atwood345

I have a gold runner with two tall multi colored/funky candlesticks and a tall vase/urn thing in between. When we moved into our house, I got some great pieces at Home Goods and Pier 1.

dmendel

Nothing.

Liz051405

When we aren't actively hosting anything, nothing. We have two kids.

When we are set up to host something, we have candlesticks or these vases filled with glass ball ornaments with the top part removed (so it looks like glass balls).  Depends on our mood, number of people and quantity of food that needs to eventually go on the table.

Laurms15

Right now my sewing machine.....

However as soon as I finish with that I'll get a spring runner and find something to put on it thats springy.

Fall I had a red/orange/gold runner with some similar colored glass bottles w/ a dish in the center w/ (fake) gords/pine cones.

Holiday I had a red runner w/ a trifle dish filled with red, gold, green sparkly ornaments.

My runners I usually get at BBB the fall decor stuff I got from Christmas Tree Shop and the winter stuff I already owned/ornaments from those huge sets at home depot.

LaKi

I always have a cream/white-ish table cloth on it.

I used to have flowers and/or candlesticks and/or something else decorative on it all the time, but, well, then I had kids. 

Allison711

Right now nothing.  I decorate it for the different holidays and will do Easter next.

Apr06

I have a beige table cloth and a tall light turqouise vase I got at Marshalls for $8. 

Oh and no one ever goes in the dining room so I dont have to worry about them knocking it over.  The dinign room is out of the way and gated off so Otto doesn't go up stairs.

NJ905wife

I have a runner that I got from bed bath beyond and a candle thing that my cousin picked up at a vineyard

adasi2969

I have a striped blue/green/beige runner to match the blue on the wall with a dark brown wooden bowl....

JAM2000

I keep a table cloth on it all the time now since I can't risk matchbox cars and other toys scratching it. Before my son was a toddler I used to just keep a runner on it. 

I try to keep piles of crap off of it- but what can you do.

AmyRob04

A bowl we got as a wedding gift. But really? A backpack, mail, my bag... It becomes the repository for everything we need to grab in the morning since its right by the front door.

HarrietNJMommy

AmyRob04:

A bowl we got as a wedding gift. But really? A backpack, mail, my bag... It becomes the repository for everything we need to grab in the morning since its right by the front door.

LOL! Same for me. I have a pair of candlesticks and 2 runners though.

But it's our "catch all" fore everything........... 

sapphireprinces

We don't have a cover since it is a marble top but the centerpiece is a pair of candle sticks that DH bought me for christmas 1 year. 

chelnap

A runner and a hurricane glass vase with a candle filled with potpourri.

 

mbcdefg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c75/mbc106/ca443ffc.jpg 

 

This was for Christmas, and everything was from Michael's.  I recently swapped out the small ornaments for little river rocks that I got from Target.

wrysmyguy

I have a gold runner, two hurricanes with a monogram initial and a faux fern certerpiece. http://www.americanhotel.com/images/ThImages/515456676.jpg http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/personalized-classic-glass-hurricane-candle-holder/

lana22

ha! we also have a bowl we got as a wedding gift along with some candle holders. however we never took the pad/table cloth off that we put on when we had people over xmas eve, and now the game dominion is spread out since we played a few nights ago.