As the seasons come and go each year, the colors that are popular in home décor and fashion change with them. It’s not practical to repaint rooms or buy all new furniture each time the calendar takes us into a new season, but changing soft surfaces in your home can satisfy the need to embrace the traditional fall colors as well as new trends. There is no place better in your home to display your fall décor than with beautiful tablecloths and napkins in your dining room.

Traditional Fall Colors in Table Linens

Traditionally, autumn colors include shades of orange, red, brown, red, yellow and purple. Let’s explore how to use each of these in dining table décor, and how the trends highlight one shade more than others this year. Also, what surprise colors might you see in fall table linen décor in 2020.

Whether you use cloth table linens for everyday meals, special occasions, or big events, it’s important to store them in a way that preserves them for future use. A big step in keeping tablecloths, cloth napkins and other table linens beautiful over time is cleaning and removing wrinkles before properly storing them.

Cleaning and Care for Tablecloths

Tablecloths are available in many fabric options from easy-clean and wrinkle-free vinyl to machine-washable and wrinkle-resistant polyester to beautiful but high-maintenance cotton or linen. Let’s look at how to best prepare each tablecloth for storage. 

Vinyl tablecloths:

Basic cleaning straightforward

There are many reasons to use cloth napkins both for special occasions and for everyday dining. You save a lot of money with multi-use products, instead of using a new napkin for every meal, snack, or event. Plus, cleaning and reusing cloth napkins is an environmentally-friendly option, and keeping more trash from a landfill is always a good choice.

A fun advantage of using cloth napkins is all of the folding options they provide. Let’s take a look at some creative ideas to use every day on your dining table, at your next dinner party, or even when setting tables for a wedding or other large gathering. Not only might you take away an idea or two, but you can also learn how to fold a cloth napkin.

How to Roll Silverware in a Cloth Napkin

Let’s start with the simplest of napkin and silverware presentation

In the world of table linens, there are few pieces more versatile than a table runner. You might ask, “What is a table runner, and how can it be used?” The What is simple, but the How offers a lot of options.

A table runner is a narrow piece of material, usually cloth, that can be used to define, divide or decorate a space. People often ask how wide is a table runner. Most table runners are 14 to 17 inches wide, but their length can vary.

How to Use a Table Runner

The classic use of a table runner is down the center length of a table. It can be used as a base for a colorful centerpiece, protect the table from candle wax or define place settings. Below you’ll find answers to popular questions about table runners and

Every dining table benefits from a little dressing up. From your kitchen table to your dining room table to a room full of tables at a wedding reception, you have an opportunity to enhance the beauty of the room and the mood of your gathering by choosing the perfect dining table décor.

The must-haves for every dining table set for a meal include a tablecloth or placemat to protect or cover the tabletop, plates, silverware, and drinking glasses. But why stop with the basics when decorating your table? Let’s look at some great ideas that you can use at home or even when planning your wedding reception.

Keeping It Simple: Clean and Modern Dining Room Table Decorations

Modern designs usually include minimal decoration and a lot of symmetry. Let’s

It’s always fun to buy table linens, table settings, dining table centerpieces, and other decorative pieces for your dining room. Before you know it, you have a collection that expands beyond your capacity to store it in your existing space. As often is the case, the space to store these things in your dining room can be sparse, so you need to get creative. Here are some dining room storage ideas for your table linens and other dining room decor, plus options in other areas of your home.

Furniture Pieces for Table Linen Storage

Let’s start with the easiest and most obvious table linen storage idea for your dining room, which is using a piece of furniture designed for

Each season there are color trends in the interior design world. Sometimes the combos are new takes on old favorites, but other seasons, popular colors seem more unique. Although much is different about this particular Summer, the desire to follow new color trends hasn’t changed.

Let’s talk about dining room color trends specifically and how to incorporate them with table linens and other decorating pieces without redecorating the whole room. Of course, a bold dining room wall color is always a great option, too!

Three color trends to consider this season are pink and red combinations, using Mediterranean blue as an accent color, and working dark grape or plum purple into your room or table design.

The Trick to Mixing Pink and Red

Whether you are planning furniture purchases for your formal dining room, eat-in kitchen, great room, or breakfast nook, the focal point of the area will be the dining table itself. Although choices of style, material, and color for a dining table are unlimited, your ultimate decision will be based on the size and shape of your room or space, plus the number of people you’ll want to seat.   

Let’s start with a look at the basic table shapes and break down the specifics for each, including square, rectangular, round, and oblong

There are few household chores performed more often than setting the table for dinner or another meal. Often when you think of setting the table, a formal dinner comes to mind. However, there is no reason every sit-down meal can’t be presented in a cohesive way for the family.

Table Linens: Setting the Stage

Although many people think of using cloth table linens when hosting a formal or holiday dinner, they don’t consider them for daily use. However, the regular use of a tablecloth and/or cloth napkins on your dinner table can add a special touch to an otherwise familiar ritual.

Using a fabric tablecloth immediately makes your settings pop, no matter how basic the meal. Tablecloths can be found in any color or pattern that you can imagine, and there’s no reason to stick with just one all the time. Affordable solid or basic-print tablecloths can

When you picture the perfect picnic or rustic dinner party, what do you see? Maybe you picture an outdoor setting, a wicker picnic basket, fresh flowers in a glass jar, and maybe some wine and cheese. Most of these scenes would also feature cloth gingham table linens of some sort. Why is that? Let’s look into the history of this popular print and explore ideas for beautiful table settings using it.

The Origin of Gingham - What Does Gingham Mean?

According to Miriam-Webster Dictionary, the definition of gingham is “a clothing fabric usually of yarn-dyed cotton in plain weave.” In today’s culture, a gingham fabric is generally a bold color checked with white, though the original gingham print is thought to be striped. And although the definition specifies clothing fabric, you can find many products made from the familiar checked pattern, including table linens of all sorts.

There is a tablecloth for every size or shape of table. No, really, there is! Whether your table is square or rectangular, round, or oval, there is a perfect fit table covering for your needs. You simply need to know how to measure the table correctly.

To measure your table, all you need is a tape measure. That’s it. You also need to decide how far over the edge you want the tablecloth to drape, which is called the drop.

The following are directions for measuring the four most popular table shapes for coverings:

How to Measure a Round Table

How to Measure a Rectangle Table