Take a standard white dinner plate, like a $5.95 Crate & Barrel’s Aspen white porcelain dinner plate, put it in the right designer’s hands, someone like Eddie Ross, and you’ll soon have a festive holiday table, writes Jura Konicius for The Washington Post.

Ross, of Maximalist Studios, is a magazine editor and creative director in Wayne who checks out thrift shops and church tag sales for vintage tableware and accessories.

A home’s pantries and attics store family heirlooms that can also add joy to a holiday table, he said.

 Ross worked out a wintry tablescape to complement Christmas, Hanukkah, or New Year’s Eve.

Elements included a large dinner plate, an antique Wedgewood plate, a Spoke Chelsea Wicker bowl, a hand-stitched stocking, modern glassware, an Elsie Green overdyed napkin, vintage silver-plate flatware and a red Bakelite knife

“This arrangement made me think of a snow-covered scene in Vermont, where even on a nice day, there is usually a gray, wintry look,” he said.  “I added small pops of red and green to make it happy. I think it has a youthful holiday feel, not like ye olde holly china table setting.”

Read more about holiday table designs and Eddie Ross at The Washington Post.