Without a doubt, Christmas is one of the times of the year most loaded with celebrations, if not the most. On those very marked days, there is a common component in all homes in the world: the table for Christmas day. And it is that food is an essential part of this festivity, but the Christmas menu would lose strength if its presentation were soft and not very striking. Therefore, in this article we present some ideas to decorate your home during Christmas.
Table
An elegant table can never be an overloaded table, since the decorations should not become an obstacle for the guests, isolating them with large decorative elements. The best thing both to distribute the space of the decorations and the food, as well as to distribute the diners in their places, is to use a rectangular table. As for the table linen, more and more people are advocating the use of individual tablecloths in neutral colors.
Centerpieces
If you want to use flower centers, it is recommended that these be odorless or artificial, since they can alter the smell of the food that we are going to taste. Just as the rectangular tables were good for the distribution of the guests, they will also be good for locating the centerpieces, since they allow more than one to be placed distributed along the surface.
The centers have to be of low height since otherwise we can end up altering the visibility of our guests with respect to the person in front. Apart from the flower centers, we can use other types such as: centers full of fruit, flower petals, stones or glass marbles and other decorative elements that serve as a centerpiece, such as a dry and varnished tree trunk.
Chandeliers
Without a doubt, chandeliers are one of the most recurring options in Christmas decoration. We can play at mixing colors with candles in ivory tones and others in red tones, or opt for using one or another tonality, but without straying from that color palette.
As with flowers, candles should not give off any type of aroma either, but simply serve as a method of decoration and lighting. Normally, they are not usually turned on and if they are, it will always be during dinner and just after the guests have sat down at the table.
Crockery and glassware
These two elements where the Christmas food and drink will rest directly must be as little overloaded as possible, that is, what never fails is with the classic, and in this case we must resort to it almost forced. The point of originality must be provided by other decorative components that we have mentioned above.
The red color
At the same time as all this, we must try to make red the color that dominates our table. But, on the other hand, we must not forget the natural intensity of this color, so be careful with the tones used to complement it, always ocher, ivory or white. It is about breaking the harmony with details in red, which will give a special meaning to the table that we are assembling. Another option is to use gold tones instead of red.
As we said, the menu is important, but there is no better way to thank the culinary work done than by serving it in a pleasant and well-decorated place.
