What do you have on your dining room table as a centerpiece?

We currently have a pretty stoneware plate with a napkin holder and salt, pepper, and honey dispensers on it. There is also a huge jar of kids' vitamins. LOL.

I have the same thing as you (except for the vitamins and honey) on the table in the eat-in kitchen. In season, we sometimes have fresh flowers in a vase - things from the yard - lilacs, daffodils, daylilies, etc.

In the formal DR, I have a floral arrangement - sometimes with candles - that I change a few times a year.

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My Mom gave me a beautiful crystal bowl with roses carved into the pedestal. I have it filled with fruit, a basket with napkins and a tray filled with crystals and rocks.

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I have a large basket of fruit. On the kitchen counter/ bar I have a candle holder that I change out every month. Currently it has 3 roses in small vases (from Target- live, laugh, love) and 3 white tealights in votive holders.

What a great question!

At the present time our table centerpiece for the familyroom/eat in kitchen area has a beautiful stack of paperwork to go through for taxes, a lazy susan w/everyday needs, i.e. napkins, soy sauce, salt pepper, etc, a jar of jelly belly's and the beginnings of a science fair project. (It will be cleaned off prior to dinner time)

Our formal dining room table has been taken over by a second science fair project and craft items as we get ready for valentines day.

We rarely have a traditional centerpiece as someone is always creating something. I figure that since the kiddos are young, we need our space to be imaginative. But I will say that we have enough floor space to displacy a nice center piece or two as long as our four legged family members don't disturb it/them. I know w/in time I will have my day to decorate, but now its time for the kids.

Have a wonderful evening.

On my kitchen table we have a blue glass dish with a square blue vase on it with blue/white flowers. On the dining room table we have a hurricane lamp with a candle in it.

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A lot of you have two dining rooms? Wow!

I guess I should add that the kitchen table also has a large, green w/ snowman, can of popcorn. The counter has a stack of bills, pictures that need to be rehung and 2 boxes of cereal from this morning.

We have most of that - esp. the mail - also a hammer and two car tools (heck if I know what they are). I'm waiting out my guys.

At Christmas time, I fill a large clear vase with my husbands grandfathers antique Christmas ornaments. Right now, I have a pair of "country" trees that match my wallpaper boarder. We live in a home built in the 1920's. We are moving soon to have extra room for the baby

On my kitchen table I have a rectangle shaped wooden bowl with "fixins" and a round candle in the center of that. The "fixins" contain dried apples, cinnamon sticks and tiny pumpkins called putka pods. It has a very prim look to it.

Before that I had a tile trivet with a napkin holder and salt/pepper shakers sitting on top of it.

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In the dining room, I have a large flower centerpiece. On the kitchen table, I have a basket of fruit.

Holly

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A large vase of poppies from Michaels - I selected the poppies, and the lady in floral arranging put them together in my vase. It was so much less expensive than I thought it would be - the poppies were on sale, and the arranging fee was 40% of the cost of the flowers selected. I guess it can add up depending if you select what's on sale or not...

Great question, Cuthie!

I have a large brandy inspired vase filled with rose petals, I pick up the petals at the local florist.....very cheap. My dining room center piece never changes.......just what I fill it with.

On our kitchen table I have a miniature chalk board setting on an easel...I normally write whats for dinner on it or little messages.

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Mine has a very nice bowl, filled with what-nots.... actually its a catch all for everyone junk. When I get fed up with it all, I tell them in the trash or do something with it . Usually in the trash it goes.

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bucket of crayons and a pile of artwork from the kids

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Our formal dining room has a centerpiece of greenery. Our dining room table has an iron candle holder and a sage green candle.

My dining room table has a pink, white & red striped (Valentine's Day) table runner with a square hammered silver charger in the middle which is currently empty. I will probably put a glass floating candle bowl with pink red or white floating candles in it at some point. There is also a pile of paperwork that I didn't finish going through yesterday.

We don't have a table in our eat-in kitchen yet. Ours was broken in the move and has not yet been replaced. On the breakfast bar (counter), I have a three tiered stand with white plates and fresh whole fruit, although it's pretty empty right now since I need to make a grocery run.

Sarah.........mom to Jason & Devin

two large black wrought iron candleholders with large cream colored candles.

I keep both tables (kitchen and dining room) free from clutter. on the kitchen table I have a plant in a basket and on the dining room table (centerpiece changes with the seasons) I have a tablescape with a vase filled with marbles and heart shaped "stones" and 6 artificial roses, on the sides of that are little votive holders - and it all sits on a runner that is ivory with roses embroidered.

I try waiting out my husband every time he accumulates a new pile of "stuff" but I end up giving in. Lately, I have taken to putting all the junk he has laying on the bar and throwing it in a grocery sack and sticking it in the spare room. He has 3 bags in there and hasn't asked once "where's this or that?". I bet I could trash it all and he would never miss it.

on the kitchen table we have snacks and bottled water and percy the train plastic toy. on the dining room table I have the blueprints for our new house ready to give the construction companies for quotes, and a box of preztels.

Lovin' the creative centerpieces... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! I justify our little mess with a beautiful light fixture over the table. Hopefully, people's eyes are drawn to that and not the bottle of vitamins and homework residue!

I am so happy to know there are other people out there like me. Right now the dining room table is a huge mess with papers, magazines, the last 2 days mail, and odds and ends. We currently don't have a "kitchen table" because the last one we had I hated and haven't gotten around to getting another one yet. Rarely do we eat together anyway and when I eat it is sometimes at the bar or at the computer.

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe people will look up at our ugly chandelier and then be moved by that. I've never lived by myself, but if I did - I have all of these fantasies of being clutter free. Then my husband or dog enter the room and that beautiful image bubble then bursts.