Another incredibly gorgeous color palette idea from Martha Stewart, table goddess extraordinaire . . .
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This fuchsia and taupe table is just lovely, especially with the sand-colored glassware and monochromatic table. The pink is so heavenly that it would work against any white or neutral tableware, which most of us have. It’s a bit reminiscent of my Rose-Colored Inspiration, and that menu would work equally well with the brighness of this fuchsia table.
From Martha Stewart, who designs tables like no other:
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These colors are just so transcendent together; touches of extremely pale blue paired with lipstick red and stark white. Proof that red, white and blue can be glamorous and gorgeous.
I was preoccupied with Payback Time last week and didn’t tell you all about my dinner party! It was my dad and I, a good friend of mine from home and her parents, who were also good friend with my parents back in the day. Clear?! Ha.
I got excited about this blue, white and chocolate color scheme, and bought this gorgeous paper at the paper store around the corner with which to wrap vases for the table.
Which I filled with fluffy white flowers and paired with blue-silver placemats.
I made simple placecards out of gorgeous chocolate-colored paper and a white gel pen.
And placed them inside a napkin envelope – which I didn’t iron! I ran out of time. There was nothing to do but just go with the wrinkly look and hope it worked in a casual way.
I think it worked okay. It’s the least complicated table I’ve designed in a while, and I liked the minimalist simplicity that it had.
I’ll post the menu and recipes soon!
My dad will be visiting next week to do press for his new book, Payback Time, which is coming out March 2 (click here to pre-order on Amazon – sorry to plug it, but I’m excited!).
We’re going to have some wonderful family friends over for dinner, and I’m brainstorming my table design. I’m not really sure what I want, exactly. I don’t want it to look girly, but I do want it to look pretty, and I feel in the mood to spice up the table with a print by wrapping vases.
Snippet and Ink
Like these vases, I’m almost feeling a simple and elegant black and white theme, on a white tablecloth with fluffy white flowers and black placecards. It’s a sophisticated color scheme and it won’t compete with the food. A little cold, though?
I have lovely ice blue- and pewter-colored placemats that go really well with my dark wood dining table. I could design around them, with silver candlesticks and maybe chocolate or bronze wrapping on the vases, fluffy white flowers, white napkins with chocolate placecards tucked into them. It would be a color scheme similar to this inspiration board, though less embellished wedding and more birds nest with blue eggs and white accents.
Snippet and Ink
I love that lightish bronze color of the birds nest.
I’m going to see what wrapping paper is on offer at the paper store and go from there . . .
I came across this table on 100 Layer Cake and absolutely fell in love.
It is so gorgeous! The hues meld in perfect colorful harmony, and against the monochromatic background of white, cream and silver, the rainbow colors pop.
I especially adore the yellow persimmon on the white plates. It’s different, playful and surprising, and would be the perfect vessel for a placecard attached to a toothpick.
Photos by Erin Hearts Court via 100 Layer Cake
From one of my favorite blogs, Snippet and Ink, which has inspiration boards of the most gorgeous color combinations – and I’m just so obsessed with this simple wintry juxtaposition of white, cream, and evergreen:
This inspiration board is for a wedding, obviously, but would be so easily transformed into dinner party decor with a crisp white tablecloth, an ivory lace runner down the table for a little old world flavor, and simple glass or milk glass vases with only greenery in them – or maybe a creamy/almost yellow-colored flower or two. I’d add candles candles candles up the wazoo to light up the white for a dinner, or just a few votives for a brightly sunlight winter white lunch.
Eddie Ross – remember him from Top Design? – wrote a gorgeous post about his Thanksgiving table design, and especially focused on all the little details like vintage salt cellars and mixed textiles and metals that can make a table so special. I love love love how simultaneously rich and simple the design is.
An Amber-Hued Thanksgiving
