Here's mine. I know I need something else on the table as I just stole my orchid in a silver vase that I had in here to put on my new console in the hall. I thought about putting the urn on the table that is currently on the buffet but I'm not sure if it would look too large.

Quick rearrange.. Better or worse? And I had forgotten that those scones really need changed out! Lol. Always something!

In our current house we have no obvious designated dining room - instead we have 1) a small 'breakfast hall' with our French country table from the kitchen at our previous house. That currently has a (Royal Doulton?) bowl with hydrangeas flanked by a pair of champagne bottles (sadly empty) masquerading as candle holders and a pair of Bretby art pottery trays.

As there's just the two of us at home these days and we only moved into this project house last December we have used this room on no more than a handful of occasions. The room is very narrow so we don't place all our chairs around it unless the table is in use.

Please excuse the floor which is awaiting tiling and currently has an old ikea rug!

2) Our 'morning room' which has our small circular oak Arts & Crafts table, complete with aspidistra in antique jardiniere and buffet/sideboard that has all sorts of Art Nouveau stuff displayed on it! Last Christmas DH and I dined at the small circular table, but these days it is used mainly as a games table for playing scrabble etc.....

Lori, I like the urn on your table.......and I love your peacock painting :)

These aren't mine, just ideas I've been saving--

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lovely photos- great for ideas. I need some updating.

lori- to answer your question, I think I like it better without the urn. very pretty room.

For non-holiday, non-party, day to day life, my dining room has a large footed glass compote flanked by a pair of very simple (not cut) crystal candlesticks. It's currently filled with ornamental/shellacked gourds. At other times of the year I fill it with clementines, lemons, etc. My kitchen table has a bowl of wooden apples.

Lori, I liked it better without the urn, so that everything lets the chandelier star, very elegant.

Can't post my dining room centerpiece, because it is surrounded by 3 binders from school committees I'm on, and a stack of newsletters I need to read. Sigh. I need to convert my dining room to an office (perfect location for one) but I really love the furniture, it was grandmother's, and I have not other room to put it in.

I love designing different tablescapes and redo mine often. Same with the buffet in our dining room. Here's my present buffet:

Here's a close-up of my centerpiece. I made it myself about 10 years ago and still enjoy putting it out every Autumn.

On a short wall in this same room, I have a small bookcase that I also decorate seasonally. Here it is ready for Thanksgiving:

Lovely all!! On second thought, I won't post mine.

My thoughts exactly!!

i did, however get a cute, cheap tablecloth at TJ Maxx today.....it is kind of homespun, and I am going to put the big Waterford punchbowl on it , with some magnolia leaves and red flowers. I like contrast.....

Would you please stop with that wood stuff, laser creek??? It is SPAM and you are not allowed to post it here! Not to mention that poor deer looks positively psychotic and you really should not post pictures that have an actual photograph of a child, presumably related to you, in the background!

Here are a few inspiration pictures I have collected.

The urn is a beautiful piece, but on the buffet it blocks the mirror frame so you can't appreciate its full beauty, and while somewhat better on the table, obviously needs to be moved any time you want to use that room and also, yes, I agree with BP, kinda fight with the chandelier for attention. Any chance you could get some kind of pedestal and put it on that in front of the windows? My mom had a very large piece like that in the dining room and that's where she put it, in a corner next to the large windows. She didn't really like it all that much but dad got it for her, and she told me that it kinda grew on her in that spot.

What a pretty room. I also think the urn is too large for the table, and it looks good in front of the mirror.

Other suggestions - the pair of lamps on the sideboard should be moved in a bit, so that the outer edges of the shades do not hang over the edge of the table. I think they could also come towards the front of the table just a tad. Not centered, front to back, but not pushed back so far. I would also pull the chairs on either side closer to the buffet. Doing these things allows the pieces to relate to each other more than they are now.

The first thing that grabs my attention when I look at your pictures are all the pairs seemingly in a row - lamps, silver pumpkins, candle votives. When you change out the sconces, use art in those areas. Pull more blue and gold (not silver) from the peacock art if you're trying to keep the room more monochromatic. But my next purchase would be a beautiful rug, then more art.

What color are the walls? It's a beautiful color. The room has a romantic vibe going. How would you feel about painting the ceiling a cut down version of the wall color?

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Allison0704-thank you for the suggestions! I actually moved the lamps per your suggestion this morning. I am a very symmetrical decorator. I don't like things placed haphazardly. Maybe I should try and scatter some candles to break it up? I'm not sure but in a lot of the pictures things are symmetrical in people's dining room unless it's a layered look like PB centerpieces or along those lines. I like the art idea but not really sure if I should look for a abstract piece or what to flow with the peacock. The paint color is Brandon Beige.

This was my inspiration last year...

And this is what I did.

That's beautiful!!!

Nhbaskets, that’s lovely! You’ve inspired me to work on mine today, which will be of similar type of design with fatter candles, however, because that’s what I’ve got. I’ll post a pix when it’s done.

Scattering various size votives would be nice.

I was thinking abstract. Vertical/slim or square (can't tell exactly how much space you have either side of window). Scenic.

Here is my centerpiece, it will remain until I remove it for a Christmas one.

NH, your centerpiece looks better than the inspiration one.

Few I saved.