This week D Home will feature my Love It / Leave It list for 2013. In it I'll dish on design elements I'd love to see left in the past and emerging trends I'm predicting (and loving) for the residential design industry for 2013. One of them? Dining in. And doing it with grand style.

Everyone these days seems to be trying their hand at becoming a gourmet chef purely for their own pleasure. And have you seen Pinterest lately? I've never seen so many incredible tabletop photos. We are all curiously and marvelously on our path to becoming world-class entertainers. I envision dining spaces being the "next big thing" in interiors as we truly commit to making these rooms "theaters" for our great culinary and social adventures.

I'll share the D Home article link with you once the feature is live later this week! Until then, cook with passion and invite over the most interesting people you know to share in the experience. You'll never look at dining in the same.