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How to Use Folding Tops to Make a Larger Dining Room Table
If your dining room table does not have the capacity to expand, but you need to seat a large group of people, you can easily use folding top...
How to Set a Coffee Table
Coffee tables add decorative appeal to a living room or den. It provides a place for family members or guests to set their dishes on the tab...
Posted by Unknown | 1:43 AM
How to Create a Centerpiece for a Dining Room Table
The easiest way to update an old or uninteresting dining room table is with a stunning centerpiece. Display a centerpiece daily or use it to...
Posted by Unknown | 8:14 PM
How to Refinish Old Dining Room Tables
The price of buying a new but unfinished piece of furniture is far less than the price of buying one that is already finished. Likewise, the...
Posted by Unknown | 3:32 PM
How to Turn a Swag Lamp Into a Table Lamp
Swag lamps often have unusual lampshades usable for table lamps. In most cases, the swag lamp will have a built-in frame with a wire opening...
Posted by Unknown | 1:55 AM
How to Decorate a Formal Dining Table
Decorating a formal dining table need not be a lost art. While in 2010 we tend to be an eat-on-the-go society, it is nice to gather the fami...
Posted by Unknown | 11:34 PM
How to Stain a Dining Room Table
Refinishing a dining room table can give an old table a new life. Whether the table has been previously painted or stained another color, st...
Posted by Unknown | 11:09 AM
How to Build an Extendable Dining Room Table
When planning a dinner party or a holiday meal for family and friends, space around the dining room table may be at a premium. Instead of se...
Posted by Unknown | 6:43 AM
How to Price a Dining Room Table for a Garage Sale
Pricing a dining table for a garage sale is often complicated by people putting more value on their possessions than the resale value is wor...
Posted by Unknown | 9:50 PM
How to Build Wood Lamps
Whether you want to turn a lovely tall wooden candlestick into a table lamp, or you would like to try drilling out a piece of driftwood to m...
Posted by Unknown | 11:31 AM
Dining Room Decorating Tips
Dining rooms can be tricky to decorate because they all contain the same basic pieces: A table, chairs, and if there's room, a buffet or...
Posted by Unknown | 2:40 PM
Which Is the Best Direction to Place Dining Room Tables?
Ancient principles sanction the correct placement of almost everything in your home to help you live a happy, prosperous and healthy life. T...
Posted by Unknown | 11:34 PM
Ideas for a Small Dining Room
A small dining room presents a design challenge. Because dining room furniture is large by nature, it can be difficult to create a cohesive ...
Posted by Unknown | 5:12 AM
How to Make Coffee Tables
Creating your own coffee table from plywood and broken ceramics or tile is an simple building and craft project that will add eclectic beaut...
Posted by Unknown | 1:43 AM
How to Determine the Year a Table Lamp Was Manufactured
Determining the year in which a table lamp was manufactured will not only provide an accurate price value, but it may give you something to ...
Posted by Unknown | 5:12 AM
Dining Tables That Can Double as Desks
"When I was transferred back to California, I went from 2,500 square feet to 1,000 square feet," says a contributor to HGTV's ...
Posted by Unknown | 9:50 PM
How to Build a Dining Table for Under $80
An elegant table is the centerpiece of any dining room. But elegant doesn't have to mean expensive. With the right materials and a lit...
Posted by Unknown | 2:40 PM
Which Is Better for Dining Room Tables: Wood or Marble?
Friends and family gather at the dining table for holidays, birthdays and just because, making the dining table very important. Choosing the...
Posted by Unknown | 11:09 AM
How to Research Antique Wooden Lamps
Lamps can run the gamut from early 19th-century oil lamps to the groovy lava lamps of the 1960s. As the decorative aspect of lamps became as...
Posted by Unknown | 1:55 AM
How to Decorate the Wall Above a Dining Room Side Table
Buffets, sideboards and cabinets are some of the side tables used in dining rooms. These tables provide extra room to set food while people ...
Posted by Unknown | 9:50 PM
Standard Coffee Table Height
Coffee tables and ottomans are hard-working pieces of furniture in many homes. They provide a great place to kick up your feet or set down y...
Posted by Unknown | 1:43 AM
How to Make a Coffee Table on the Cheap
Getting furniture to outfit your first apartment can get expensive, whether it be a couch, a dining set or even a coffee table and a reclin...
Posted by Unknown | 1:44 AM
How to Choose a Table Lamp
Deciding on the right table lamp can be more than just choosing a lamp and finding the correct wattage for the bulb. In many cases choosing ...
Posted by Unknown | 9:50 PM
Dining Room Centerpiece Ideas
A dining room should exhibit a comforting ambiance that welcomes family and guests to your dinner table. Part of the decor includes the tabl...
Posted by Unknown | 2:40 PM
Different Types of Ceiling Lights, Wall Lights and Table Lamps
The variety of lighting fixtures on the market today can be overwhelming. Each type of light casts a particular type of beam that can result...
Posted by Unknown | 11:31 AM
Square vs. Round Dining Table
The time has come to replace your old dining table. You have chosen the style and finish, but cannot decide on the shape. The two logical ch...
Posted by Unknown | 10:17 AM
How to Build a Coffee Table
Coffee tables can add appeal to any room. Making the coffee table yourself will give you a sense of pride. Find a design you like, build it ...
Posted by Unknown | 1:43 AM
Guideline for Dining Table Knee Space
Anthroprometrics is the study of human dimensions, which furniture designers pay close attention to. If you are sitting at a dining room tab...
Posted by Unknown | 2:40 PM
How to Make a Large Dining Table
A solid wood door is just the right size to turn into a large dining table. Salvage yards, thrift stores and garage sales often turn up inte...
Posted by Unknown | 5:12 AM
How to Learn About Vintage Table Lamps
The history of table lamps relates to the history of inventions, society and interior design. For example, when the Argand lamp (patented by...
Posted by Unknown | 8:14 PM
How to Find Used Lamps
Lighting can drastically alter any interior space. With proper and attractive lighting, any room can be literally transformed into a more ap...
Posted by Unknown | 5:12 AM
Types of Lamps
When decorating any room, adding lamps can be for style and decoration as much as they are for light. There are many lamp styles to choose f...
Posted by Unknown | 1:55 AM
Mission-Style Table Lamps
A subset of the Arts and Crafts style that was popular in the early 1900s, Mission Style continues to be influential in the design of furnit...
Posted by Unknown | 11:31 AM
How to Make an 8' Dining Table
When we were first married we wanted to have the entire family over for Christmas dinner, but we didn't have a large dining room table. ...
Posted by Unknown | 11:34 PM
Coffee Table Styles in 1978
It was the year the United States handed back the Panama Canal, a shocked nation witnessed the Jonestown, Guyana, tragedy and toga parties w...
Posted by Unknown | 1:43 AM