9 Christmas Coffee Table Vignettes You Can Build in 20 Minutes
Your coffee table is the visual center of your living room. It’s what you see from the couch, what guests see when they walk in, and what the camera sees in every photo. At Christmas, it’s also the easiest surface in your home to decorate — flat, reachable, and right at eye level when you’re sitting down. The problem is that most people decorate it by setting random holiday objects on the table and hoping for the best. It ends up looking like a gift shop exploded. There’s a better way, and it takes twenty minutes: every vignette below is built on the same three-part formula — a tray to contain it, height variation to give it shape, and a light source to make it glow. Learn the formula once, and you can restyle the table every week of December without thinking. ...