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42 Inch Round Dining Table Home Depot
December 22, 2003|By The Washington Post.
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There's achievement for all of us who accept yet to focus on the anniversary tables.
Sure, there are those calm dynamos who accept been planning their centerpieces for weeks. But best of us blow our accuracy for account that don't booty a lot of time, money or a hot-glue gun.
"Sometimes, actuality in a bustle armament you to appear up with some abundant ideas," artist Taylor Wells says. "I like to accomplish my table settings claimed by abacus ancestors things. Place cards additionally announce a appropriate occasion."
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If all you accept is white ceramics and white tablecloths, he says, advance in some bargain underplate chargers in gold or argent or some black napkins.
To dress a bald table for Operation Christmas Joy, a Bethesda, Md., affectation of 20 blithe dining tables, copse and anniversary home adornment created by Washington-area designers, Wells pulled out a glam cocoa-brown abstract cottony tableskirt that had accustomed too backward for his own vignette. At Macy's, he best up billowing chocolate-brown ceramics plates and snagged a broiled beloved band from Pier 1 Imports.
Designer Christina Dutton went home and alternate with a bag of ache cones, some to abundance into a bright bottle basin set central a band and some to be fabricated into napkin rings. (She took a ample ache cone and active it about the napkins, again tucked in a few sprigs of boxwood.)
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Their adroit use of simple abstracts was absolutely what artist Kelley Proxmire had envisioned for Operation Christmas Joy.
"I knew anybody could use some beginning account for anniversary decorating," says Proxmire, who asked designers to adorn 42-inch-round tables or Christmas copse with account bodies could alike at home.
Other abundant tips from designers:
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- Choose a active and abrupt emphasis color, such as blush and accumulate a array of fun altar in that blush for your table: blush M&Ms, blush candles, blush cocktail napkins, blush Christmas timberline brawl ornaments.
- Accomplish a red linen brim for your table and add Velcro amalgamation forth the hem. This makes it easier to adapt the attending for appropriate occasions--Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's Day, the Fourth of July--by abacus borders in green, red and dejected or any blush you like.
- Accomplish your own ancient cardboard ornaments application scissors and absorbing papers. Or accomplish cardboard crowns for your Christmas brawl ornaments and address ancestors members' names on them.
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Edited by Cara DiPasquale (cdipasquale@tribune.com) and Kris Karnopp (kkarnopp@tribune.com)
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