With a little imagination, good taste, and a proper selection of flowers and foliage, you can find hundreds of dining room centerpiece ideas. To make it a little easier for you, we bring you some suggestions that we hope will be useful to you.
Practical and simple solutions with which you can create centers with which to decorate your dining table on any special occasion. A very original way to give this meeting space with family or friends a personal and unique touch.
Some basic elements and steps
Then we will see some ideas for dining room centerpieces, but first we should expose some general questions that will help you create floral centerpieces for any occasion.
Let's start with the basics, materials. Although these can change from center to center, some of the essential items you need are:
- A vase, glass jar, container, box or basket.
- Flower foam.
- Floral masking tape.
- Transparent fishing line.
- Fresh flowers: magnolias, daisies, lavender, wild flowers, etc.
- Foliage branches or stems: fern, eucalyptus leaves, ivy branches...
- Pruning shears.
Basic steps to make a centerpiece
choose the foundation which, as we have pointed out, can be a vase, a basket, or anything else you can think of. Now cut the floral foam to fit in that container. Make sure it is well soaked in water before adding the flowers.
If necessary, use the floral tape to secure the foam in place and keep the flowers in place.
Put the leaves or foliage stalks so as to create a base that adds volume to the center. Next, insert the flowers into the foam, starting with the largest, which will go in the central zone. Place smaller flowers around it, creating a harmonious composition.
In order to achieve a more natural look, Make sure that the arrangement is not completely homogeneous. Some flowers and stems or leaves may be higher or lower, more in or out. In nature, flowers don't grow perfectly even, and your center will look better if it's a little imperfect.
Take a good look at the center to make sure it looks good from all angles. Fill the container with water so that the flowers stay in optimal conditions for a longer time, and you have it ready.
3 ideas for dining room centerpieces
We already know the basic steps that we will have to take to make the center, and now we can start creating designs. It may help to make a small sketch to get an idea of what the end result will be.
We leave you with five ideas that can serve as a starting point to design unique centers and according to each event that you are going to celebrate.
Centerpieces with candles
They are a classic within the dining room table center ideas. You can place the candles in a chandelier, in a glass or glass jar and leave them floating in the water, or fill a jar with sand or stones at the bottom and place the candles on top.
The flowers, which will not be very numerous, will be a complement. You can place the jar or vase on a tray and place the flowers at the feet of the same. Another option would be to tape them florally to the jar itself.
If you want to make a centerpiece, but you don't want to complicate yourself using a lot of materials, this is a simple, minimalist alternative that can look great. In addition, you can get one style or another depending on the flowers you use. For example, magnolias for a more elegant touch, roses for a more romantic center cut, or wild flowers for a more country air.
Centerpieces with baskets
The baskets have a rustic touch that is charming. In this case, we advise you to use a plastic container inside basket to put the sponge and water, the same as if you decide to use a wooden box as a base for your center. This is the best way to prevent materials from degrading due to moisture.
You can leave the basket as it is, or give it a more country touch by decorating it with some satin fabric. Enter the structure of the center, created as we have seen in the previous section. For this version we recommend you to use long-stemmed flowers like carnations.
How a centerpiece made with a basket really looks beautiful is if we manage to produce the effect that we have been picking flowers in the field and we have left them there. That is to say, the more natural and less elaborate, the better.
Carnations, daisies, ivy branches, ferns, chamomile flowers and, in general, all kinds of wild flowers will do well for you.
Centerpieces with recycled bottles
The good thing about making homemade centerpieces is that you can recycle objects that you have at home. On this occasion, some simple bottles can be turned into beautiful vases. The best thing is that you can create the center quickly and without having to worry about foams, water containers or the like.
It is as simple as finding two or three glass bottles at home and cleaning them well. Can decorate them with some jute rope or sisal twine, stick on some beads, or paint them. Then you just have to fill them a bit with water and introduce some flowers and a touch of green inside. Like is logic, they must be long-stemmed flowerssuch as roses or carnations.
To create an authentic centerpiece effect, you can Arrange the bottles on a tray and decorate the base of the tray with more flowers and some foliage.
There are many ideas for dining room centerpieces, surely now you have more inspiration and you can think of hundreds of different options. Can you tell us how you make your floral centers?