Summer Tablescape Ideas

we're talking visual stimulation I'm going to talk today about taking your tablescapes from drab to Fab entertaining family and friends is one of my favorite things to do and great tablescapes elevating the whole visual is also important just as important as your food and your fabulous cocktails the joints got to look good especially your tablescape I'm going to show you today how to do that very inexpensively very easily have a lot of created fun because we are going to raid our home we're going to go through the kitchen bathroom living room and pull out things and repurpose them I'm going to make something fabulous we're not going to spend a dime let's go raid that kitchen so I'm looking for any kind of centerpiece item like a vase a vessel anything you can put things in is what you want to start with pull it all out and then we'll edit later and voila love love love love we're gonna put something in here awesome how great is this right but if you don't have this maybe you have a cake stand or maybe you have some bowls Pottery whatever it is but we're going to use this and we're going to use this so I want to use things around the house and this is perfect my little wheelbarrow I love this thing if you don't have a wheelbarrow I want you to use maybe a pot a vase a cake stand but this is going to be perfect for our tablescape we're going to take everything out of it because we don't need the protein bars and we don't eat the tomatoes and I think you know what I'm gonna use the tomatoes they're going to be great filler we're going to kind of casket I love it we're going to use the Tomato we'll put this here and we're going to go into my little secret little stash don't look at how bad this looks but I love this little basket we can definitely put Breads and Cascade things out our trifle I cannot tell you how many times I use this thing we're gonna put something in it to what we'll find in the fridge but I can't tell you how many times I use these and again you may have something similar in your kitchen let's go look at all the great things we can use in here like look at this artichoke I'm definitely going to put this you know where I'm going to use this I think on a flower arrangement actually and let me pull out these apples we can use for one of the vessels you know I'm not one of the most domestic guys like I don't really cook my partner's a great cook and I I'm a New Yorker so I eat out all the time right to order in but I can definitely repurpose things and make them look fabulous [Music] so I've rated the kitchen obviously I went a little nuts but I want to empower you pull everything out so you can check it out so we have all the pieces that we pulled out from the kitchen and around my studio obviously everything from the refrigerator I mean everything look at the asparagus isn't that crazy it's gonna look so good on the table so I really want you guys to pull out everything check it out and then edit edit edit now we're going to shoot this tablescape and we're going to show you step by step how to put it together and I'm going to release my top five things I want you to concentrate on it but before we do this in a timely fashion I have to bring out my little helpers now I know you may not have helpers but if I got to do this in the sake of time I need help to do that so guys come on out here this is Sebastian and Navi and they're going to help transform this tablescape into this magical Wonderland right before your eyes so we're going to start off with our table runner I love burlap I have a thing for burlap so we're going to roll this out now you don't have to use overlap but I'm a fan so I like to especially for this type of season but maybe if you don't have it you have an old tablecloth or even Some Velvet pieces I use this even during Thanksgiving all the time too second thing they're going to do is they're going to start putting down the center pieces so we're going to kind of arrange those pieces that we were running around and finding right and we're going to do something artistic so I like to kind of layer them up and down we're going to put flowers in here and some fruits or one of the veggies in here we did a flower arrangement and I took some artichokes that we had in the refrigerator and I actually put them in the flower arrangement so how cool is that excellent I'll take the tomatoes because we found those in my kitchen I absolutely love them and the guys in front of you are putting down the place settings and what they're using is they're actually using cutting boards that I had in my kitchen and I love to mix and match them so I just have four matching ones and then I took the N2 and I they're not matching obviously but have fun with it I think cutting boards are great place setting then we're going to put in our apples we're gonna put some apples in this look at this artichoke how great is this right so I'm just going to kind of hang it out here for now we may edit it later and we're going to put our apples in here and the best thing about using fruits or veggies for your tablescape is you can reuse them so obviously I love people to eat from the table but if they're not going to eat these I'm going to repurpose them wash them all down of course put them back in the refrigerator we didn't spend a diamond obviously you can eat all these things later so we'll put a couple out here putting a little color in here I love that and then we'll take some of these insane looking tangerines and I'm going to put them in the trifle so they're going to go in here voila and tell me that's not so inviting right and keep in mind for different seasons you can obviously use different veggies different fruits like in Winter sometimes I use pomegranates and cranberries I'm going to put another one in there and have a Cascade down so think about different seasons that you could use different types of fruits and veggies then we'll move on to our place settings I want to work that through with you because I have a couple little trips tricks for you how we even folded the napkin so how cute is this right and I'd love to Cascade things out so maybe with the grapes I'm going to kind of pull them down so they're kind of like almost falling out of the bowl a little summery Vibe a little Festival Vibe we got going on and then I love these asparagus talk about taking things right out of your refrigerator right and I'm just going to drape them in here I love the colors and cascading things down so we've kind of done this this uh tablescape and your centerpieces where they're kind of different levels and then the flowers I know they look great but they may be a little too high when you actually sit down to the table so what I do is I remove them if they're too high just before people sit down and if you want to put food out here more food because I know we have half the kitchen then I'll just pull out some pieces that we don't really need now we have our actual place setting we again we took our our butcher blocks or our cutting boards I did a square base plate I did a 10 inch dinner plate and and then I threw the napkin let me show you how to so I fold it this and once over try to make sure that the the tag is underneath right and then we're going to kind of do this and my hands are clean by the way I'm just going to wrap it like that almost creating like a little flower out of the napkin I think it just adds a little interest in dimension and then I went with the my black fork and knife very simple but traditionally I could do it in a different way and this is how to elevate your tablescape from drab to Fab

Channel: James Stanley

Views: 8,481

Keywords: #Entertaining, #SummerEntertaining, #Tablescape, #SummerTablescape, #JamesStanleyJSNY

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Length: 7min 33sec (453 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 29 2023