How To Impress Your Boss At Home

You have called your boss for dinner and are looking to impress him and his family. Your wife has been busy all day preparing the choicest of dishes and you have been running around the corner store to get her requirements every now and then. Your bar is ready, and so is the list of snacks you are going to serve with each drink. But have you given a thought to the place where they are going to sit for the better part of the evening? While your living room is only going to be used for a part of the evening, it is your dining room where your guests are going to spend their crucial time when dinner is being served. Is it adequately impressive? Have a look around. When did you last dust your dining set? You have been using the bedroom as a dining room but hardly had occasion to use the actual dining room. That does not mean you ignore its cleanliness. Get cracking with the vacuum cleaner straightaway – dust on parts of your furniture is one of the biggest mood dampeners known. Make sure each and every corner is well dusted and adequately clean. Be sure to pick up the decoration pieces and clean under and behind them as well. Supposedly ‘clean’ areas have a habit of showing their dirty sides at the oddest of times. Now have a look at the overall setting. Is it looking good? Do your dining room chairs go well with the rest of the dining set?. If you have been buying things off and on that caught your fancy, you may well need to have a look at the overall façade of your room. If you feel uncomfortable, replace your dining room hutch it with a better looking wooden or a glass cabinet. Don’t have the energy or the money to buy one immediately? Never mind. Remove it totally. Better not to have anything than to display furniture with poor matching taste. Look at the placement of your dining furniture next. It should allow adequate space for moving around. The space available and the number of guests will also dictate whether you go in for a sitting arrangement or a buffet. The arrangement of your choicest crocery on the table will vary accordingly. Use table mats or a table pad to keep away your worries of the table surface getting spoiled with spills of any sort. Get a flower decoration to enhance the overall effect of your settings. While fresh flowers work best, artificial ones will do the job too. Just make sure your love for flowers of either variety does not let you overdo the whole thing. Keep one decoration in the centre, another in one corner at most. Pay attention to the overall lighting. Soft and subtle can enhance the mood of the evening by focusing on select decoration pieces and letting the reflection light up the rest of the room. Use bright overall lighting to have a more formal effect on the proceedings. So go ahead and treat your boss to the best dinner he ever had. And look forward to the next raise as well!