Maybe I've been on Pinterest too much, as I no longer just think that dinner goes on your dining table at Christmas. Over the past couple of years, as we've done the Christmas dinner, I've made an extra effort to decorate the dining table and make the dining room look all festive.

With our dining room/kitchen being pretty much finished now (yes it really has taken the best part of a year) this year I wanted to make a bit more effort to make the table look all Christmassy. Today I thought I'd share how I'll be decorating our table and some ideas that you can use yourself too, if you fancy getting your dining table ready for Christmas as well!

First of all, the basics; our table and benches are from Next, we picked them up in a sample sale, the week before last Christmas, and then our chairs are from TKMaxx. They're a grey/bluey colour but I am obsessed with them. However I do put a blanket down, before anyone eats on them, cause I'm scared about them get stained, which Henry finds hilarious, he tells me I can't do this on Christmas Day, but he has another thing coming if he thinks I'm gonna risk some gravy staining those bad boys. I'm like Monica from Friends in the Thanksgiving episode with the plates- if you know, you know.
Anyways, enough of me chatting about my chairs and my fear of stains. Let's talk table decorations. Although I probably will take some of this off for when we tuck into our Christmas Dinner, I think decorating the table for the lead up to Christm...