One of our favorite tips in our new book, Remodelista in Maine, comes from event designer Molly O’Rourke. “It turns out an apple corer creates a hole that is the same diameter as a taper candle,” she told us. “Once I discovered this, there was no turning back.”
How to put this coincidence to use for a last-minute Thanksgiving table? Read on:
Photography by Greta Rybus for Remodelista in Maine.



For more unfussy, ingenious (and inexpensive) design ideas, order Remodelista in Maine, available everywhere books are sold.
And for more tabletop ideas, see our posts:
- Object of Desire: Hand-Embroidered Table Linens from Oeuvres Sensibles in Marseille
- Required Reading: Gesa Hansen’s “The French Art of Countryfication”
- A Visit with Tricia Rose of Rough Linen: The Original Coastal Grandmother
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