Dress Up Your Design: Accessorize an Empty Dining Room

Each month, a lucky reader wins accessories from Etsy.com to complete a room. For March's winner, Alix, designer Claire Watkins selects the accessories and shares why she chose them to update this dining room.

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Organic Silk Handwoven Orange Striped Scarf

Organic Silk Handwoven Scarf

Pull in texture and color with a lightweight scarf in the colors of the rug and artwork to add more interest to the wood table. "Because the print is a small scale, it will enrich the elements already in the room without demanding too much attention. I use my own scarves on tables a lot; I don't think I've ever used a real runner," says Watkins.