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Setting the Christmas table

Seventy-odd pieces for the table, sideboard and shelf — the part of the house that works hardest on Christmas Day. It’s one of four families inside our decorations range, and it runs from around $4.95 to feature pieces around $180.

The table itself

Luxury boxed crackers (six-packs in styles like natural cones and silver wreath), Christmas glass tumblers, rectangular serving trays and a gingerbread present cake stand that makes the dessert do the decorating. Add a table tree décor piece down the middle and the centrepiece argument is settled.

The sideboard and shelf

This is where the range gets playful: cloches with piped pastel gingerbread façades, LED house sets, paper-board snowy houses, a pink-and-blue village and advent calendars that start the countdown on 1 December. Glass bottle vases handle fresh or faux stems either side.

Practical bits

Most pieces here are giftable sizes, which makes this a favourite category for Kris Kringle and teacher presents — and the fragile ones travel the way fragile things should, packed with proper care for shipping to most of Australia (except WA & NT). From around $4.95, with Afterpay and Zip at the checkout, or collect free from the Archerfield showroom in Brisbane.