If you have furnished your dining-room to accord not only with your taste, but the scale upon which you intend living, be careful that the dining-table never strikes a false note.
For the young and inexperienced I will state a few rules for table decoration.
Your decoration, flowers, fruit, character of bowl or dish which holds them; linen or lace, china,glass and silver,--each and all must be in keeping. The money value has nothing whatever to do with this question of appropriateness, when considered by an artist decorator.
Remember that in decorating, things are classified according to their color value, their lines and the purpose for which they are intended. The dining-table is to eat at, therefore it should primarily hold only such things as are required for the serving of the meal. So your real decoration should be your silver, glass and china, with its background of linen or lace.
The central decoration, if of flowers or fruit, must be in a bowl or dish decorative in the same sense that the rest of the tableware is. Flowers should be kept in the same key as your room. One may do this and yet have infinite variety. Tall stately lilies, American Beauty roses, great bowls of gardenias and orchids are for stately rooms.
As there are many kinds of dining-rooms, each good if planned and worked out with an art instinct, so there are man
In attempting the decoration of your dining-room table avoid anything inappropriate to the particular meal to be served and the scale of service. Do not have too many flowers on your table, or flowers not in harmony with the rest of the setting, in variety or color.
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