The napkin can be placed on top of the dinner plate or beneath the fork. “Mix and match for an extra pop of color, depth, and a personalized touch,” Reed says of table linens.

After the tablecloth, “add a woven or linen placemat, charger plate and dinner plate. Add a beautiful napkin — I love monogrammed — on the dinner plate or to the side,” Miller says.

We asked four design pros to create a holiday table setting using the same plain white dinner plate. Here's what they came up with.

Boring napkins can make any dinner party host look like an amateur. However, there's one easy technique that you can use for ...

For everyday weekday meals or laidback family-style dinners with just one course, only the basics are necessary: a forks, a knife, a napkin, a plate, and a glass. First, put your plate in the middle.

F rom dinner parties to afternoon tea -- having beautiful, on-theme dinnerware to decorate a dining table is a surefire way to elevate any event. But quality, decorative dishes can be quite ...

Also pictured: Napkin from The Breakers Palm Beach gift shop; glass plates and bowls from Loaves & Fishes Cookshop; Cath Kidston flatware; pink glass (an impulse buy from a now-closed Pier 1 in ...