I’ve been getting ready for Easter this week and my table is ready. :-)
I have one box of Easter decor that my husband pulled out of the attic and, while I don’t have much, I have a few seasonal items I like to put out.
I love hosting our family dinners and while this one will be a small group, it is just enough for using these 5 plates I have that were handed down from my MIL.
I love the soft colors here. These are Quimper-style, they have no markings on the back, so they might just be some kind of reproduction to look like Quimper. Quimper is from France and has a French country look. They are lovely just the same and are perfect for spring.
I always seem to gravitate to some earthy textures too, and love mixing rustic and polished items together. A natural linen tablecloth made a perfect backdrop.
I made this one from some leftover natural linen I had in my storage unit. I had purchased a bolt to cover my tackboards for my offices years ago, so it is good to find a use for it.
I had the whole table set and then felt it needed more texture so I added in the twig placemats. It grounded everything perfectly.
Natural elements go a long way to make your tabletop feel less formal and stiff.
I used my pewter chargers (from my time living in Norway) to add a little gleam to the table. They create that mix of textures I love and brighten up the table nicely. They serve to highlight the plate here, and just make the tablesetting feel more special.
Pewter chargers add some gleam to the table without looking too polished. Pewter is a lovely metal to give you a cool look while still working well with a rustic vibe.
The Quimper look plates add a softer, tradtional, garden-inspired look.
I had some linen napkins that were just the color of the periwinkle blue in the plates, so that became the color statement here.
I used my smoke glass goblets here, as a nod to the rustic look. I bought these for dirt cheap in Round Top a few years ago.
Color on the plate and napkin will be repeated in the centerpiece. Using neutrals for your basics can get you lots of repeated use from your table decor.
Easter Centerpiece
For my table, I wanted that periwinkle blue color of flowers for my creamware pitchers I’m using as the centerpiece vases.
That color is a bit hard to find in cut flowers though. I did find this pretty hydrangea plant full of blue blooms at the grocery store in the exact color I wanted. I can just clip the blooms and mix in some other soft pastels for this arrangement. I think they would even last longer than buying cut hydrangeas plus, they didn’t have this color in the cut flowers.
Perfect blue hydrangeas for my tabletop.
The creamware pitchers work with the traditional look of the plates and three together can be filled with spring flowers to create a nice centerpiece.
My stash of creamware from the butler’s pantry I did in a showhouse year ago always comes in handy when entertaining.
Soft aqua in the wooden eggs and Easter grass adds in more pastel. Those came from a discount store and were in my Easter box that I’ve had for years.
These little figurines were on the shelves of my babies’ rooms many years ago. (I save everything.)
Small figurines can make a tabletop more interesting and personal.
Here are the hydrangeas now in the creamware pitchers. I might add some white tulips if I get back to the market. (It is hard for me to stop when it comes to adding flowers.)
Break down the layers
Natural linen tablecloth, hemmed myself from a bolt of left over linen
Twig placemats, from my decor closet
Pewter chargers, Norway collection
Quimper style plates, from my MIL
Blue linen napkins, from my decor closet
Heirloom silverplate flatware, from my husband’s grandmother
Thrift find, smoke glass goblets
Creamware pitchers for flowers, Ebay collection (from a past showhouse)
Small seasonal figurines from past collection
Easter grass and nests from discount store, purchased years ago
Pewter candlesticks, Norway collection
Seasonal flowers from grocery store
The only things new here were the flowers. I’m going to pot the hydrangea and see if I can grow it on my back patio. These grocery store ones don’t do that well for me normally, but I’ll try it.
More Easter Flowers and Decor
With seasonal decorating, anything other than Christmas, I go in lightly with decor in just a few places.
I moved my big demijohn to this table in the entry and hung some eggs from branches.
Some pretty tulips on my ottoman tray in the living room with some marble eggs and these chickens that were also my mother-in-law’s.
Then, at the breakfast room, I love adding in yellow flowers at the table and console, to go with the blue in there. Ranunculus and tulips from Trader Joe’s look so colorful here.
I’d love to see your Easter tables or an Easter tree if you’d like to upload a pic in the comments.
I hope you all have a lovely holiday weekend. Happy Easter!
This blogpost was thoughtfully written by me, Carla Aston, and not by AI, ghostwriters, or guest posters.