How To Set The Dinner Table

• You should always start with the tablecloth. To give a glamorous look, use one in either silk or satin. Make sure to have a protective layer underneath. The tablecloth should hang about 1½ feet over the edge.
• The second thing to be placed on the table is runner, preferably of a bright color. Warm serving dishes should be placed along it.
•  Next will be the trivets for warm dishes and in between them, the candle holders.
• The dinner plates should be kept in the center, while salad or bread plates should be placed slightly above and to its left.
• While placing the cutlery, starting from the outside of the plate and move towers the inside. The cutlery to be used first should be placed the farthest from the dinner plate.
• To be more precise, the salad fork should be placed farthest from the plate and then, you should keep fish fork and then, dinner fork. Thereafter will be your dinner plate (to the right), then dinner knife, soup spoon and fruit spoon.
• Dessert fork and spoon are placed towards the top of the dinner plate, in a horizontal position.
• The blades of all the knives face towards the plate. The blunt surface of the knives will be facing outward.
• The coffee cup is always placed to the right of the dinner plate, just besides it.
• The glasses are always kept on the right hand side of the dinner plate, to the top left of the coffee cup. Moving from left to right, you will place water glass, red wine glass, white wine glass and champagne glass.
• Now, comes the turn of the napkins. Napkins are folded in rectangles and placed below the salad and dinner forks. You can also place them on top of the dinner plate.

Flower arrangements and seasonal décor are always placed as the centerpiece on the table.