Q: I need to buy a new dining table to accommodate three small children as well as the informal dinner parties I frequently host. Our home has a mid-century modern vibe and a long rectangular living room/dining room, so I have been contemplating using benches for the long sides of the new table. 

A vase of flowers is such a lovely thing — in the kitchen, on the dining room table. Maybe you cut your own flowers every week, or maybe you only see them on special occasions (like today!). Either way, here are 10 lovely vases for whenever fresh flowers make their way into your home: More

For years Steph and Phil had been looking for the perfect dining room table — one that was "stylish, clean lined, family friendly, reasonably priced, big enough to accommodate our friends for dinner and also where our piles of home projects and kids artwork and homework can build up in piles..." as they told Apartment Therapy. Whew! Sounds like a tall order, but they finally hit on it. A solid oak worktop and natural wood desk legs from IKEA, with a special custom touch: fluorescent pink legs! More

Remember this fun kitchen nook makeover? It reminded us how transformative a little wallpaper can be. In that spirit, here are five other wallpapered kitchen and breakfast nooks to inspire. Definitely the most eye-catching way to make the area around your table stand out. More

Give me something—anything—available in a few hundred colors and I'm smitten, but that's even more the case with Glassybaby. These gorgeous glass votives hand-blown in Seattle from three layers of molten glass look opaque, but light a candle inside and they give off a soft, beautiful glow. I love the weight they give to the table—sturdy, grounding, gorgeous. More

What's fun, fresh, and colorful all over? Pink, yellow, and green dining rooms! I've been a fan of this color combo lately in all its forms: hot pink with emerald green, coral pink with lemon yellow and a touch of greenery, pale pink with mint and a little sunshine yellow. Sometimes one color is dominant, with peeks of the complimentary colors, while other times they're all mixed seamlessly together for a vibrant, eye-catching look. How do you like it? More

A beautifully set table is a lesson in balance, the shaping and bringing together of both the practical and the decorative. Our tabletop and dining posts this year focused on that delicate balance, with recommendations on everything from our favorite no-fuss serving dishes to pretty polka-dot table linens, from classic carafes to gorgeous gold flatware. We also had a shopping guide to colorful dinnerware, a roundup of nautical-inspired tabletop, and a few creative ways to display all your tabletop collections! More

If you live in a small home and still love to entertain, you know that hosting dinner parties requires a bit of space planning. Do you borrow a few extra chairs? Haul out a card table from your storage unit? Set up a few cushions on the floor? If you had Orla Reynolds' brilliant shelf, you'd have two tables and four dining chairs conveniently at the ready. Can you spot them? More

Rob's Hollywood Hills home is a quintessential bachelor pad, from the vintage Milo Baughman Rosewood Case Sofa to the rooftop pool. The dining area isn't too shabby either, with its mirrored wall, white lacquered table, and Marcel Breuer cane chairs. When asked about his decorating inspiration, Rob told Apartment Therapy that he tries to "imagine a room where Thomas Crown, Bugsy Segal and Howard Hughes would be brainstorming the next move over a glass of prohibition era hooch." And from the look of his dining room, we can imagine that, too. More

Thanksgiving table centerpieces can be as elaborate or as easy as you make them. Personally, I think simple is beautiful, and I'd much prefer a display of leaves and candles over an overwrought gilded craft explosion. If you're of that mindset, too, then these eight table decor ideas should be right down your alley: More