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DIFFA's Dining by Design: Table Hop & Taste

Are you in need of some over the top inspiration for your holiday table setting? This week, Dining by Design celebrates its ninth year in San Francisco. Wednesday's Table Hop & Taste event will give...

Dinner Plates: White vs. Color

They say that the best color for presenting food is white. But sometimes all-white china smacks of a certain maturity and may not accurately reflect the vivacity of your entertaining spirit. ...

Mini Bar: Small Scale Sideboards

We love to entertain but when hosting a party we never feel as if there is enough space for everything: the coats, the food, the glasses, the drinks, the guests! Setting aside a spot for each “sta...

Etsy Finds: Handmade Table Linens

Do you entertain dinner guests with real napkins or paper? Or maybe the napkins are the forgotten afterthought – until your guest’s face is dripping with gravy? ...

Scavenger: Formal Entertaining
Seattle

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and we bet you’ve been adding up your guest list and realizing that your mismatched plates and uneven number of utensils may not work for a crowd. Look no fu...

Special Little Serving Dishes

When your host has even just one pretty little serving dish on the table, you're made to feel special when it is passed to you. Some ideas for doing the same for your guests......

10 Great Spaces for Entertaining
House Tour Roundup

To kick off the party season and our Entertaining month here on Apartment Therapy, we've put together a fun collection of party rooms from past San Francisco house tours. Some of the more spacious hom...

Nicola's Dining Room
Before & After

Sometimes we post extreme Before & Afters, in which the before photos look like disaster sites or crime scenes. But it can also be enlightening to admire a room that simply has a new look, whether fro...

Inviting Color to the Table

We have been looking for exciting ways to add more color to our dining area. At first, we tried a bright tablecloth but that didn't show off our fabulous white lacquered tabletop. Then, we splurged ...

10 Space Saving Wine Racks

As we enter the entertaining season we find ourselves stocking up on bottles. They aren’t all for ourselves, of course. There’s one for the host, a couple for the dinner party, one for that recip...

Style Mix in a Beach House Dining Room

There are a few styles at work in this beach house dining room, and we like how they balance each other out: contemporary, industrial, and traditional......

The Parsons Dining Table, 10 Ways

Maybe you've noticed that the Parsons table, in the myriad incarnations of its simple, balanced form, is one of the most frequently advertised items in our Scavenger posts. The reason for the table's ...

3 Blind Mice by JAS Design-Build

There are so many great details in this home renovation by Seattle-based JAS Design-Build. The project, called 3 Blind Mice, employs salvaged materials and inventive use of space to create an up-to-...

Five Custom Dining Tables by Meyer Wells

Oh, to have a dining table custom made for your home. If ever we did this, we would definitely consider taking the job to Meyer Wells, the Seattle-based furniture makers. These guys use salvaged woo...

Two Traditional Hutches with Striped Accents

The stripes in the backs of these hutches are a terrific combination of tradition with bold newness......

Swizzlestix: Tea Towels, Aprons, Pillow Cases & More

We have a weak spot for beautiful tea towels so we were very excited to learn about Swizzlestix and their wonderful collection of tea towels. They also have retro inspired aprons, pillow cases, placem...

Before & After: Chalkboard Table

We've seen chalkboard walls, mugs, calendars and fridges, but Kate's idea is new to us. She figured out a great way to spruce up this ho-hum table from Craigslist and provide a bit of entertainment fo...

Flickr Finds: Ashley's Clever Dining Room Bar

Maybe we've been watching too much Mad Men, but lately we've been obsessed with stylish bar set-ups in the dining room, where cocktails can be close at hand for easy mixing during or after a meal. Ash...

Setting Up Home: What Lives on Your Dining Table?

Recently we traded in our long-standing copper bowl centerpiecefor this crazy African violet. Cute, huh? This month on Apartment Therapy we're posting about Setting Up Home, so I've been mulling over...

Celeb Design: Silver of the Stars

Sir Sean Connery and his silver loving cup (or quaich),designed by Scottish silversmith Michael Lloyd Okay, sure, Sean Connery is handsome... but check out that silver loving cup he's holding!! Now t...

Five Real Dining Nooks that Really Work

Not sure exactly why, but lately our inspiration folders have been filling up with photos of lovely little dining nooks where real people eat (not just stylists with plasticized food). Maybe the summe...

Etsy Find: Porcelain From Clayswan

We adore colorful porcelain in the kitchen. A table set with multicolor dinnerware can become a feast on its own. Lyn Swan of Clayswan porcelain describes her products as "whimsical... playful... happ...

Can You Spot the Winning Room?
California Home + Design Readers Choice Contest

Back in May, Lily posted these 8 dining rooms as a roundup of our favorites out the of 38 entries vying for honors in the Readers' Choice Dining Room contest at CHD. The winning room was part of Lily'...

Before & After: Black Dining Room

Our post from last week, Inspiration: Dark Interiors, received many great comments from our readers. ModFruGal posted a link to a Before and After project of her dining room. It turned out so nice tha...

Inspiration: Dining Room in a Portland Bungalow

Oversized pendant lighting can really give a boost to a room, not that this Dolphin Park, Portland dining room needs it. The bungalow, renovated by Bryce Dugan and Charles Froelick, is full of great...

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