Add some finery to your dining room for the holidays

For some, the holiday season means a lot of cooking for family and friends that you might not see every day. This time of year, you're likely to get a lot more use out of your dining room than during other parts of the year.

As you're readying your table and gathering the necessary flatware, centerpieces and other items before your big meal, you might decide that the decor that you once loved in your dining room has become worn or dated-looking over time.

While you don't have time to completely redecorate your dining room before Thanksgiving, you can certainly change out your window treatments for something more elegant and modern. You would be amazed at how much of a difference this simple change will make in the appearance of your home.

Switch out a busy and out of style floral pattern in favor for something a little bit more simple. Try the look of banded Thai silk drapes, which will appear clean as well as exceedingly fine in your dining room. The color-blocking strategy on these window treatments makes it easy for them to fit in with your existing decor, and looks very current as well.

Best of all, the lightness of these silk drapes makes them a beautiful addition to this space, without overpowering the rest of the decor. Something like a velvet blackout drape would be too heavy to blend in with the existing design of a room such as this one, making it a more difficult choice for a situation like this one.

Don't suffer through the holidays feeling uneasy about the decor in your house. Simply switch out items that have fallen out of fashion for newer, brighter models and watch as your home transforms into a stylish and current place.