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Simple tips to decorate the table

Prepare your table with great refinement and creativity

• China cups, saucers and plates are even more beautiful when they are hand painted. You have two options: buying the set ready or personalizing the parts yourself. There are many courses which teach the technique, but you can also learn by yourself. Buy special paint for china, brushes and set to work.
• If the dinner is romantic, put candles on the table and in all the corners of the ambience. It is also worth taking care with the curtains. If there are not any, put veil screens in your favorite color at the window.
• Also for those interested in dinners for two: if the meal is light, serve the food on the center able. To give the ambience a special feel to it, place fabrics pleasant to touch in the floor and spread many cushions around.
• If the occasion is one of relaxation, it is worth hanging decorations and even colored paper from the ceiling.
• If you like a joke, surprise your friends with a child decoration.
• Are you tired of your chairs? Change their upholstery.
• Instead of those traditional white napkins, why not buy a colored packet? It is cheap, easy to obtain at any supermarket and the result calls one’s attention.
• Seek for your house straw baskets, vases, trays and platters to make arrangements with fruit, greens, vegetables and flowers.
• Think about the colors of the food and try to enhance the value and the visual effect, matching them with the decoration.
• Mirrors increase the space. Why not put one in front of the dining table?
• Pay attention to the lamps! Your table must match them. In other words: there is no point in having a metal table with a baroque lamp in the middle of the room.

(Source: www.terra.com.br - Oct/07)