20 Thanksgiving Desk Environment Concepts to Wow Each Visitor

Use Dried Flowers

There’s no need to face the crowds on Thanksgiving morning to pick up a fresh arrangement. Dried flowers are having their moment, and we love the sustainable approach to creating a beautiful tablescape. Dried grasses, amaranth, and even hydrangeas lend a gorgeous visual texture to the table. Arrange in an earthenware, ceramic vase and pair your flowers with neutral linens. You won’t believe the impact this simple touch adds to your Thanksgiving feast.

Add a Grazing Board for Edible Color

Use Branches in Creative Ways

Go Monochrome

While we love the layered look of linens, plates, and flatware in different, but coordinating colors, there’s something so dramatic about a Thanksgiving tablescape done in one tone. (Particularly when that color is white.) Here, the color palette serves to accent and emphasize the shades brought forward through the food and natural touches. If you really want your menu to stand out, opt for this look. Just be sure to garnish your mashed potatoes with a lot of parsley—you don’t want them getting lost in the shuffle.

Match Accents of Copper

As far as materials go, copper is a natural choice this time of year. It echoes the darkened leaves and shorter days of the season. What’s more, it pairs perfectly with green, serving as a strong, beautiful backdrop to the small sprig of olive branches giving depth to the simple napkin and flatware setting. It’s simple Thanksgiving table decor at its finest. To take it a step further, try writing or typing out your Thanksgiving menu and slipping it between the napkin and flatware.

Use Fruit as a Centerpiece

Persimmons reach their ephemeral peak this time of year, and lining them down the center of your Thanksgiving table adds gorgeous pops of color. It’s a design trick that’s so easy to create. Just be sure to keep your table linens simple so they don’t compete with your centerpiece. And if you can’t find persimmons, seasonal fruits like pears, apples, pomegranates, or even mini pumpkins work beautifully as well.

Add a Sprig of Something to Your Napkin Ring

Rosemary, olive, eucalyptus, or dried flowers are an easy way to dress up a plain napkin ring. Even if you’re keeping your table decor streamlined and simple, add a little depth to your place setting with something from nature that ties the whole look together.

Serve a Buffet

When you’re serving a crowd at Thanksgiving, you often have to do the challenging dance of making the food accessible, but also ensuring it doesn’t take up too much space at the dining table. Rather than having everyone shuffle in and out of the kitchen, set up an additional table to serve as a buffet. This frees up space for your decor and puts your dishes within reach so guests won’t have any trouble going up for seconds.

Keep Candles Low-Key

It’s easy to overdo it on the candles. When you’re tempted to illuminate a million tea lights, tapers, and pillar candles, take a step back and embrace a less-is-more approach. We like just a few taper candles at different heights to create enough variety and interest without competing with your guests’ view or your table’s precious real estate. Plus, little flickers of light are so much more elegant.

Go Maximalist With Greenery

Add height and color to a simple runner by arranging greenery all along the center of your table. Pick up a few bunches of eucalyptus from the grocery store (hi, Trader Joe’s) and place them so that groupings of leaves extend out in alternating directions. It’s such an easy, low-effort, high-reward trick.

DIY Pinecone Place Cards

When we have the time, who doesn’t love a good holiday craft? Spend an hour or so the weekend before Thanksgiving putting together these darling pinecone place cards. (With Gilmore Girls playing in the background and a mug of something warm nearby, this sounds like an ideal Saturday activity.) Purchase some cardstock, write your guests’ names in simple lettering, and secure to a pinecone. You may need to go foraging or you can easily find bulk mini pinecones online. It’s simple and stunning.

Incorporate Color in Unexpected Ways

When it comes to adding color to the Thanksgiving table, we like to leave the work to our accessories. Keep your larger pieces—dinnerware, tablecloth, etc.—largely neutral and look to the details for an opportunity to incorporate color. Linen napkins are an easy way to do this, as the look will still feel balanced and symmetrical if you keep the accent color the same at every setting.

Create a Three-Color Palette

Pythagoras was right when he theorized three as a perfect number, symbolizing harmony and balance. And when it comes to your Thanksgiving table setting, going with three primary colors is the best way to ensure you don’t go overboard. Here, the look leans feminine with an aesthetic of green, red, and white—echoing the transition from fall to winter. Run a pine garland down the middle of your table and dot it with pomegranates. A white linen tablecloth and cream napkins are a gorgeous way to complete the look.

Establish a Sweets and Bites Table

For many people, this holiday is all about the pie—and as a result, you oftentimes have far too many desserts than vacancies on your table. We like to set up a small dessert table with no more than an arrangement and perhaps a few tea lights for decor. Layer in vessels of different heights to keep the simple setting dynamic, but before you add anything more, remember: this is all about the sweets.

Echo the Fall Harvest

Set a reminder of what you’re grateful for with edible, seasonal touches woven throughout your table. A minimalist cheese plate is a gorgeous—and tasty—representation of the harvest. You can even place a decorative bowl full of pears and apples for even greater impact. Add a few white pillar candles to the mix and bask in the glow. Fruits and foliage are an alliterative pairing we’ll always be happy to let guide our design decisions.

Ground Each Setting With Fall Leaves

Streamline Your Pumpkins

Talking of pumpkins, the tendency is frequently to progress overboard together with your harvest. In lieu, we adore to stay with two colours to field the point of interest and simplify the desk. Inexperienced and white pumpkins glance so magnificent paired in combination. Aim including a couple of small pumpkins to the combination for a candy autumnal contact.

Exit Glam With Gilded Touches

The December leisure season is all in regards to the glimmer, and should you’d love to include the optic necromancy initiation with Thanksgiving, there are a couple of simple tactics to reserve the glance in test. You’ll spill small pinecones with gold leaf spill paint. Or, should you don’t have era for crafts, merely acquire an exquisite yellowish gather of pinecones. We additionally like easy inexperienced and silver candles with a cushy glimmer to their external to assistance light up your desk.

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Upload Whimsy With Antique Plates

I really like the use of antique plates to merge other design aesthetics. Right here, the colourful china is layered over wicker chargers so as to add a modest allure and pastime date nonetheless maintaining the desk atmosphere cohesive. Replicate the antique enchantment with silver flatware to unite the glance.

Don’t Put out of your mind About Seating

Regardless of the cultured of your Thanksgiving desk, coziness is at all times a attention. To construct your visitors really feel essentially the most at house, drape pretend sheepskin pelts over timber benches or chairs. Now not handiest does it provide a modest hygge to the vibe, but when your leisure meal is the rest like ours, they’ll be thankful for the difference reassurance a couple of hours in.