Restyle Two for Fall or a Vase
Vases are excellent resources for designing the perfect table. They can be found in almost any shape, size and colour, and can provide sculptural beauty, with or without flowers.
When fall is in full force along with the holidays on the horizon, it is time to look for a timely tabletop scene. Use one or many vases as the main attraction, and then rotate them as necessary to keep up with your mood along with the weather. Interior designers Kelley Motschenbacher and Paige Loczi offer plenty of ideas to get us all started.
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Paige Loczi suggests starting with what makes you happy. Then consider:
Shade. Perhaps it is a colour that you simply link together with the season. Oranges, reds, yellows, browns, creams and purples are most often associated with fall, while throughout the winter vacations we generally lean toward reds, greens, blues, silver, gold and paper white.
Combine your favorite colored vases for a display that could stand on its own or that arouses an equally vibrant flower arrangement.
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Shape. Perhaps you would like to start with a shape that mirrors or contrasts other items inside the room. Inside this kitchen the curved vases are in keeping with the shape of the chairs and cushions.
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Motschenbacher added a shapely vase here to offset the table’s hardness.
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Size. If you are decorating a very long dining or entry table under a high ceiling, then consider using tall cylindrical vases to emphasize the room’s generous measurements. If you’ll be using these vases for a dinner party, slim-profile ones will allow guests appreciate the beauty of the arrangement whilst still allowing them to communicate freely with other people beneath the foliage.
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For a fall soiree or joyous holiday dinner party set around a smaller dining table, use multiple brief vases which people can comfortably view over. Few things kill a good dinner conversation more quickly than being unable to find out who you are talking to.
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Repetition. Regardless of the colors or shapes of vases you have chosen, “repeat those colors and contours in odd-numbered groups or so long, linear rows,” Motschenbacher suggests.
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This can mean using the very same vases for a constant appearance, like such milk glass vases filled with paperwhite bulbs for a uniquely wintry effect.
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Milk bottles or old soda can make a set. Motschenbacher shows off this arrangement, where the original carrier basket contains the display.
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Or repeat a pattern, as with these flowers and candles, which make a soothing bath-time ambience on chilly nights.
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Mix vases along with different accessories with some thing in common, be it colour, shape or size. For a cohesive topic, continue the colour, shape or size theme you have chosen for the table in different parts of the area.
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Style. Once we think of antiques, our first thought might be of ceramic and glass. Motschenbacher likes to show her off fall roses in classic ceramic pitchers.
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While antiques have been in style all year, there is something particularly autumnal about them. Maybe it is a reminder of how wonderful old farms which make the best pumpkins and apples this time of year.
Bring that feeling nearer by placing a floral arrangement within an antique vessel beside your reading chair or bed.
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Other containers and materials. Push the definition of “vase” by coming up with creative containers for fall screens.
For a Thanksgiving affair, Loczi suggests using a pumpkin as a flower vase for an unexpected touch. Select a pumpkin larger than the glass container you’ll need inside to maintain the water.
Carve out the pumpkin as you would to start a jack-o’-lantern, cutting the shirt slightly wider than the vase insert. A massive pumpkin will require tall blossoms to balance out the proportions.
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Motschenbacher is a fan of using baskets as vases. Here she included blossoms (within a glass add) into a classic egg jar. This country-style arrangement puts an inviting exterior scene for an apple-tasting or even pumpkin-carving party.
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Another among Motschenbacher’s basket structures entails no blossoms, but instead a display of mini pumpkins and gourds. Wire baskets and urns include the bounty without hiding any of its beauty.
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Feathers and sunflowers were garnished with gold pipe cleaners and placed inside classic vases. “The gold boats were air-freshener canisters in the 1960s that I got at a garage sale for a dollar each,” Loczi notes.
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Here Loczi shows her off display of mason jars, which she wrapped in linen and twine. “You can just as easily wrap family photos around a jar instead for a very different impact,” she says.
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