Crate Centerpiece I am still working on my kitchen! I finally finished painting the kitchen cabinets and then moved on to painting the walls (even though I only painted them a few years ago). I know…I am insane. Then I decided to touch up the paint on the trim. I also added gray to the farmhouse table top and that ended up a disaster that I am still trying to fix. Okay, whew, I hope to share it all tomorrow if I can get some good pics!
Instead of sharing my kitchen, I’ll share a crate centerpiece for my holiday table. I don’t know about you but I find decorating my table for a holiday dinner to be very pretty but also highly impractical. As soon as the meal begins, it all needs to come off the table to allow room for the food. I often wonder when I see these gorgeous tables choc a bloc full with decor, where does the food go? Anyway, I digress.
I decided to create a very simple centerpiece that I can easily lift off the table when the meal is served. I took a few galvanized tins from the craft store, painted the tops in chalk paint colors, added some fall mums and placed them in an old crate that I found years ago by the side of the road. It is very basic and I need to add a bit more to it but you can get the gist of it.
Obviously, this can all be switched out for Christmas and I will add a few little pumpkins and other fall decor into the crate for Thanksgiving dinner.
Here are more crate centerpieces (with a lot more imagination than mine) for inspiration. They are lovely and don’t clutter up the table.
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Speaking of Thanksgiving, I have 26 coming over for dinner and am starting to get the process going. The following week we have my daughter’s Sweet 16. I will have nothing left in me for Christmas!
I too love the beautiful tablescapes you see some people create but agree that it’s not practical. I really like the idea of the crate! It’s beautiful and practical, everything is in one place so it’s easy to just move it out of the way during dinner and put it back afterwards…Love it <3
Thank you so much Annie!
Wow, you have been a very busy lady and it sounds like it isn’t letting up anytime soon. Your centerpiece looks great – love the chalk painted detail on the galvanized tins. I so agree about the crates being too large when dinner is served. I stopped using mine for that very reason because I had no where to place it once removed from the table. I love them though. Have a great Thanksgiving and best wishes planning your daughter’s Sweet 16.