Picking the right table

FOR anyone who loathes cooking, rustling up Christmas dinner is a particularly low point in the year, accompanied by high stress levels.

So if your turkey is likely to exit the oven on the drier side of juicy, distract your guests with plenty of drinkies and a gorgeous dining table.

While colour is one of the biggest trends in interiors this year and set to continue into next, when it comes to the Christmas table it’s all about toning it down using little splashes of red here and there, if at all.