Buffet

The sideboard is the hardest-working piece of furniture in your dining room and the most under-decorated. All December it holds the overflow — the extra dishes, the dessert, the candles that don’t fit on the table — while getting approximately zero styling attention. It ends up looking like a very nice shelf that Christmas forgot. Here’s the fix: christmas sideboard styling isn’t table styling with more space. It’s vertical styling — garland runways, staggered candle heights, and the wall above doing half the work. Treat the sideboard as the room’s backdrop instead of its storage, and it becomes the thing guests photograph. ...