CREATE AN OVERTABLE DISPLAY

If your food-laden table leaves little room for decorations, why not create a festive display above? Position an extendable clothes rail with the base under the table and the top bar high enough not to block your guests’ view of each other. Wrap it with lights, garlands or foliage and hang baubles and ornaments from ribbons.

Gold leaf wine glasses, £5 each; paper fans, £8 set of seven, both Dunelm