When the time comes for our own birthday, we plunge into these pleasant preparatory chores... In our article we will offer you 33 original ideas for decorating the holiday table.
We all love to attend holidays to enjoy the prevailing atmosphere of solemnity and fun. Part of this mood, undoubtedly, is created by the interior of the room and the festive table itself.
Do you have a birthday coming up? Then it’s time to get acquainted with our original ideas to surprise and delight your guests, as well as your loved one.
So how can you decorate a table for a birthday?
The starting point should be the choice of tablecloth; it will be the basis of our “tasty picture”. Tablecloths in warm, rich, rich colors will help us create a festive atmosphere - these are golden, terracotta, orange and reddish tones. A rich blue, bright red or dark green tablecloth will also look very elegant. The main thing is to correctly arrange the entire color scheme of the festive table composition when using saturated shades. You can put covers on the chairs by tying them with ribbon.
How to decorate a table for a birthday: dishes and napkins
A good choice for a birthday party would be dishes with edging. Snow white and gold will go perfectly with the warm color of the tablecloth. If you have chosen a rich, bright color, then use colored dishes, choosing a good contrast.
Napkins will also become important element table setting. They should be combined with the tablecloth and, in addition, they can be given the most intricate shape, which will definitely attract the attention of guests and immediately put them in a festive mood. There are many options for folding napkins. One of the most simple, but elegant ones is to simply roll it up into a tube and tie it with a thin satin ribbon. You can give it the appearance of a turret and install it vertically, or, after some minor manipulations, making a few bends, give it the shape of a fan and secure it with tape at one edge of the fold. Here you can safely experiment and come up with something of your own, unique and completely new.
How to decorate a birthday table with flowers
As for the presence of flowers on the table, of course, this will decorate and emphasize the festive atmosphere. Just note that you need to avoid flowers with a strong aroma. Their smell should not distract from the culinary delights and should not cause any disturbance to guests. A small amount of flower petals can be unobtrusively scattered on the table between dishes.
Flower vases should be low, almost flat, and flower stems should be fairly short. Flower arrangements should not block the view of guests; they serve only as an addition to the table decoration. You can use a multi-component flower arrangement - place a large bouquet in a flat vase in the center of the table, and miniature flower arrangements in the same style near each device.
U painting a table for a birthday is unusual
Don't be afraid to use some unusual design items and add your own unexpected details. It can be anything. For example, decorative vases, unusually shaped hodgepodges made of glass. They can be placed at each device or along the edges of the table.
And don’t forget about candles, they will decorate any holiday table. Candles can play the role of a central element within a flower arrangement or be an independent element on the table. In the second case, you can focus on a beautiful candlestick. The candlestick can be tall and elegant and the candles in it are thin and generally rise above the table. And perhaps you will like the option with a flat bowl, where small colored candles and flower petals will float.
You can celebrate your birthday in the form of a costume themed party. But even without using costumes, you can create some special holiday style. For example, let this evening be held in Japanese style. Red, black and white colors in serving will help you with this. Dishes with a black edging and a red flower will emphasize the Japanese flavor, the tablecloth may be a soft pink shade - all this will create the sophistication and mystery of the East.
If the table is already stylishly decorated with a tablecloth and dishes, there are flowers or candles on it, you should move on to the dishes. If you just put a dish on a plate, the design will not look original. Try to decorate them exquisitely with imagination. When planning the menu, keep in mind that guests will be of different age groups and with their own tastes. Let there be few dishes on the table, but they will all be decorated with soul and taste.
The arrangement of dishes deserves special attention. Place colorful canapés on skewers, slices and tartlets. Decorate drink bottles with ribbons, paper and flowers. Everything should be in tone with the main serving.
How can you decorate a table for a child's birthday?
First of all, you need to think over the holiday decoration style, and based on this, choose a color scheme for dishes, tablecloths, and decorative items.
Above the table you need to hang ceiling decorations in the form of balls, garlands, and paper decorations.
You can easily make a tablecloth with your own hands from taffeta, organza, mesh or packaging film. In order to fix the drapery, you can use tape or, for example, a stapler.
Dishes on children's party should be useful and easy. Design them in the form of children’s favorite characters, dolls, cars. Create a whole fairy tale from your dishes!
Be guided by your preferences and good mood When decorating a festive table, your guests will appreciate your efforts!
Decorating salads is a reason to write a separate article, because beautiful salads- is an integral part festive feast when every housewife comes up with something original to make the holiday special.
Beautiful salads are especially relevant when there are small children in the house - it’s interesting for the kids to watch how their mother decorates the salads, and then they gobble it all up together.
Read also: Decorating salads for the holiday: recipes with photos Examples of salad decorations New Year, for birthday, anniversary, wedding. How to decorate salads for any celebration. Beautiful salads with descriptions and photos
Also, beautiful salads are relevant for children's matinees and birthdays. Beautiful decoration Making salads is not at all as difficult as it might seem, and all you need to do is show a little imagination and your beautiful salads will surprise all your guests.
Especially for readers Home Restaurant I made a photo selection of how to beautifully decorate salads, which I hope you will find useful.
Most of the salads presented in this article are layered, and to keep their shape, it is best to make them in a springform baking dish, wait for the salads to set in the refrigerator, and then remove the ring, and only then start decorating the salads.
Festive salad “Butterfly”
How to prepare Butterfly salad with step by step photos you can see
New Year's salad "Horse"
Ingredients:
- Chicken leg: 1 pc. (or chicken breast: 1 PC.)
- Fresh cucumbers: 2 pcs. (or sweet bell pepper: 2 pcs.)
- Mushrooms: 200-300 g
- Onion: 1 piece
- Vegetable oil: for frying
- Chicken eggs: 4 pcs.
- Mayonnaise: to taste
- Salt: to taste
Preparation:
Boil the eggs hard. Cool.
Boil the chicken leg (or breast) in salted water until tender (about 30 minutes after boiling). Cool.
Peel the onion, wash and cut into small cubes.
Wash the mushrooms and cut into small cubes.
Heat a frying pan, pour a little oil. Place mushrooms and onions in the pan. Fry over medium heat, stirring, for about 10 minutes.
Separate the chicken meat from the bones and cut into pieces.
Cucumbers (or Bell pepper) wash and cut into cubes.
Separate the whites from the yolks. Grate the egg white onto fine grater.
Grate the yolk on a fine grater.
Cool the mushrooms.
Combine prepared meat and cucumbers in a bowl.
Add salt to taste, season with mayonnaise.
Mix well until smooth.
Combine the yolks with mayonnaise and mix well. (Bring to the consistency of thick sour cream.)
Place the salad on a flat dish (black or burgundy will look more impressive), using a knife to form a horse’s head. You can prepare a pattern in advance.
Brush the horse silhouette with the yolk mixture. Lay out the mane of mushrooms.
The last layer is proteins. Finalize the head and ears.
Make eyes and nostrils (for example, from olives), decorate the New Year's salad as you wish. Let the salad sit in the refrigerator for at least 1-2 hours. New Year's Salad "Horse" is ready.
Crab stick salad “Mice”
Ingredients:
- 150 grams of hard cheese (can be processed)
- 240 g crab sticks
- 2 cloves garlic
- 250 g mayonnaise
- 1 carrot
- parsley
- peppercorns
Preparation:
1. Cheese, crab sticks and grate the garlic on a fine grater.
2. Cut the carrots into slices.
3. Combine cheese and garlic with mayonnaise, mix well.
4. Place the finished mixture in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
5. Form oval molds from the cheese mass.
6. Then roll them in grated crab sticks on all sides.
7. Make ears from carrots, tails from crab sticks, and eyes from black pepper.
Sakura branch«
Ingredientsfor salad:
300 grams of smoked chicken or pork, cut into strips;
2 small beets, chopped;
A jar of pickled champignons;
Egg yolks 4-5 eggs;
Grated cheese 200 grams;
Grated whites.
You can add fried or pickled onions after the beets.
Preparing the salad:
Coat all layers with mayonnaise.
Sakura flowers are made from protein colored with beet juice, branches from finely grated black and green olives, leek leaves.
The stamens are from the yolk.
The design depends on your taste.
flower pot«
The salad is prepared in a pop-up baking dish. If there is none, you can use a simple cardboard tape, fasten it in the form of a ring, and wrap it in foil. Place in this ring in layers, coating each with mayonnaise:
1. grilled or smoked chicken, cut into pieces;
2. prunes, cut into strips;
3. champignon mushrooms, fried with onions;
4. cucumbers, cut into strips (let them stand before placing and drain excess liquid),
5. carrots in Korean.
For decoration: Radishes are used that are soaked in beet juice.
If you want lilac flowers, add them to red cabbage juice.
Free the salad from the outline, place unsweetened crackers around the “pot”, garnish with whatever green leaves are on hand. In the photo, the salad is decorated with sorrel.
Lay out the flowers, fill the middle with yolk, and place the egg white, grated on a fine grater, in between.
Keep in the refrigerator until serving.
Salad "Pansies"
Salad "New Year's cracker"
Salad recipe " New Year's cracker» with step-by-step photos you can see
Salad “Snake” for New Year 2013
Recipes New Year's salad“Snake” (7 pieces) with photos can be viewed
Crab Salad
You can see the recipe for Crab Salad
Salad "Goldfish"
Salad recipe " gold fish» and decoration options, you can see
Salad “Pearl”
You can see the recipe for the “Pearl” salad
White Birch Salad
Salad recipe " White birch» and decoration options, you can see
Salad "Tsarskiy"
Preparation of the Tsarsky salad and decoration options, you can see
Salad “Cornucopia” No. 1
You can see the recipe for the Horn of Plenty salad No. 1
Salad "Violet"
salad ingredients:
smoked ham, prunes, fried champignons with onions, fresh cucumber, Korean carrot, mayonnaise.
cooking : Lay out all the ingredients for the salad in layers, spreading mayonnaise in a salad bowl, or springform. Cut the radishes into slices and soak in red cabbage juice so that the violet petals turn lilac. Place spinach leaves on the salad, and then make flowers from radish circles. Make the centers of violets from egg yolks. Line the sides of the salad with crackers.
Salad “Fox coat”
Salad preparation and decoration options, you can see
Salad "Spiderweb"
salad ingredients:
sprats, butter, onion, hard cheese, boiled eggs, mayonnaise. Fresh cucumber, black olives, ketchup, herbs for decoration.
cooking : Mash the sprats with a fork and place on a plate, then add finely chopped onion with mayonnaise. The next layer is grated cheese with mayonnaise, then three pieces of butter, and finally eggs.
To decorate, mix 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise with ketchup and draw a spider web. Make a spider from a black olive. Decorate the sides of the salad with cucumbers and herbs.
Eggplant appetizer “Peacock tail”
Preparing snacks with step by step photos you can see
Fireworks Salad
salad ingredients:
ham, boiled eggs, yellow, red and green bell peppers, tomato, mayonnaise, onion
cooking : Cut all salad ingredients into thin slices. On a plate, place the ham in the first layer, with onion strips. Next, add three colors of bell pepper, alternating them with egg whites. Top with tomatoes and mayonnaise, which we hide under grated egg yolks. Mayonnaise can be served separately in a gravy boat.
Lady's Hat Salad
salad ingredients:
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ingredients for decoration : suluguni rope cheese, tomato, black olives
Salad "April Olivier"
salad ingredients: boiled eggs, boiled carrots, boiled potatoes, salted cucumbers, fresh cucumbers, boiled sausage, green onions, smoked sausage, parsley, dill, mayonnaise.
ingredients for decoration : radishes, fresh cucumbers, lettuce, curly parsley, salami for roses, olives, egg white.
cooking : Cut the salad ingredients into cubes and season with mayonnaise. To decorate the salad, place lettuce leaves on a plate. Place the salad on top of the leaves. Cut the cucumber in half and cut into slices. Cut the radish in half. Place radishes and cucumbers on the sides one by one. Place curly parsley on top around the edges. Before preparing the salad, cut a piece from the boiled eggs and cut it in half. Place the halves in a circle. Place a salami rose in the middle. It turns out it's very simple to do. Cut 7 thin pieces of salami, wrap the first piece in a tube, and place the rest next to each other and secure with toothpicks.
Cut the olives into thin slices and decorate the salad with them in the area of the eggs.
Green Rose Salad
salad ingredients: boiled chicken fillet, processed cheese, fresh cucumbers, boiled eggs, pitted olives, red Crimean onion, mayonnaise.
cooking : Cut the salad ingredients into cubes and season with mayonnaise. Decorate the salad with slices or slices of fresh cucumber in the shape of a rose.
Mexican salad
salad ingredients: boiled chicken fillet, radishes, fresh cucumbers, boiled eggs, green onions, boiled potatoes, chili peppers, lettuce, pickled cucumbers, lemon juice and vegetable oil
cooking : Cut the salad ingredients into cubes and season with lemon juice and vegetable oil. Place lettuce leaves on a plate and top with the salad itself. Using toothpicks, assemble a cactus from pickled cucumbers.
Salad "White Crocuses"
salad ingredients: boiled eggs, Chinese cabbage, canned corn, pickled champignons, green onions, fresh cucumbers, mayonnaise.
preparation: Chinese cabbage, pickled champignons, green onions, cut fresh cucumbers into cubes, add corn and season with mayonnaise. Place the salad on a plate and sprinkle finely chopped eggs on top.
For decoration, we take 7-8 small seeded onions (they are sold by grandmothers at the market), a bunch of green onions and 1/4 of a carrot. We clean the small onions. Now take a sharp knife and cut out the cloves along the top of the onion. We take out the “insides” of the onion and, using a toothpick and green onions, insert the stems into the “onion cups” and place a small piece of carrot in each onion.
Liver cake “Chamomile”
preparation: preparing liver cake Here's the recipe. Decorate with chopped dill, from egg white and add chamomile to the yolk.
Salad "Championship"
salad ingredients : green peas (young or frozen), canned. corn, boiled potatoes and carrots, balyk, eggs, green onions, dill, mayonnaise, quail eggs.
cooking : cut all the ingredients into cubes and place layers on a square plate coated with mayonnaise in the following sequence: potatoes, green onions, eggs, balyk, corn, carrots, potatoes. Decorate the salad green peas, and dill. Make the field markings with mayonnaise and the soccer ball with a quail egg.
Salad "Snowdrops"
salad ingredients : boiled beef, marinated in lemon juice and sugar onions, eggs, mayonnaise, hard cheese
cooking : The salad is laid out in layers in the following order: pickled onions, boiled meat, boiled eggs. Do not coat each layer too thickly with mayonnaise, including the top one. Press lightly. Sprinkle the salad with grated cheese, make snowdrop stalks from the feathers of green onions, and cut the petals from thinly sliced daikon radish slices.
salad ingredients : unsweetened round crackers, canned pink salmon, saury or tuna, boiled eggs, garlic, green onions, mayonnaise
cooking : Place the crackers on a plate in a circle in the shape of a flower. Next is a layer of eggs with mayonnaise, then a layer of crackers, then canned food with mayonnaise and green onions, and grease the last top layer of crackers with mayonnaise and sprinkle with finely grated eggs. Garnish the salad with tomato slices, olive halves and sprigs of herbs.
Salad “Vegetable with garlic”
salad ingredients : tomatoes, cucumbers, garlic, vegetable oil, herbs
cooking : Cut the vegetables into slices and arrange them in rows on a round dish. Sprinkle with crushed garlic, herbs, and pour over vegetable oil.
Crab Spring Salad
salad ingredients : crab sticks, or crab meat, fresh cucumbers, eggs, grated hard cheese, Chinese cabbage, olives. Sauce: mix mayonnaise and sour cream in equal parts, seasoning with a little mustard.
cooking : crab sticks, cucumbers, eggs, and olives cut into cubes, Chinese cabbage tear it up small pieces. Add cheese and season with sauce, place in pan and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Remove the salad, transfer to a platter, and garnish with green onions and crab stick flowers.
Mimosa salad with mice
salad ingredients : boiled eggs, boiled carrots, boiled potatoes, onions, canned fish (sardine in oil), mayonnaise, greens
ingredients for decoration : pieces of cheese (for the ears and tail of the mice), black peppercorns (use as eyes for the little mice)
Salad "Aquarium"
salad ingredients : Seafood Cocktail, onion, red canned beans, pickled champignons, pickled cucumbers, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise
ingredients for decoration : seaweed, red bell pepper (to make fish and star), mayonnaise, several mussels to make crabs
Sunflower salad
salad ingredients : boiled chicken fillet, onions, fried champignons, boiled eggs, mayonnaise
ingredients for decoration : Pringls chips and olives
Salad "Wicket"
salad ingredients : avocado, shrimp, fresh cucumbers, boiled eggs, onions, mayonnaise
ingredients for decoration : green onion feathers, salty straw, a piece of black bread to make the bottom
Salad "Corn"
salad ingredients : boiled chicken breast, pickled cucumbers, onions, fried mushrooms, boiled eggs, parsley and dill, mayonnaise, canned corn
ingredients for decoration : leek leaves and canned corn
Salad "Hedgehog"
salad ingredients : boiled chicken breast, pickles, boiled carrots, green onions, dill, parsley, canned corn, eggs, mayonnaise
ingredients for decoration : Place the salad on a hedgehog-shaped dish.
Grate the eggs on a fine grater, mix with mayonnaise, and coat the hedgehog. Use potato chips for the needles, and squeeze out circles from the skin of a pickled cucumber for the eyes and nose.
Salad "Crab Paradise"
salad ingredients : crab sticks, pickled mushrooms, processed cheese, canned corn, garlic, mayonnaise, greens
ingredients for decoration : red caviar, olives, curly parsley
Salad "Watermelon slice"
salad ingredients : smoked chicken fillet, fried champignons, boiled carrots, boiled eggs, grated cheese, garlic, mayonnaise
ingredients for decoration : red bell pepper (watermelon pulp), olives (pits), fresh cucumber (peel)
Salad "Gift"
salad ingredients : boiled veal, boiled carrots, boiled beets, steamed prunes, walnuts, boiled eggs, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise, parsley
ingredients for decoration : Cut ribbons from boiled carrots and garnish with parsley.
Salad "Gill wood grouse's nest"
salad ingredients : boiled chicken fillet, ham, pickled champignons, eggs, mayonnaise
ingredients for decoration : potatoes cut into strips, fried on vegetable oil, lettuce leaves, for bird eggs: processed cheese, egg yolks, dill, mayonnaise, garlic.
Starfish salad
salad ingredients : crab meat or crab sticks, canned corn, boiled eggs, lightly salted salmon, grated hard cheese, garlic, dill, mayonnaise
ingredients for decoration : shrimp, red caviar, salad laid out in layers.
Salad “Hares in the garden”
salad ingredients : smoked fish fillets, such as butterfish, boiled potatoes, boiled eggs, boiled carrots, pickles, greens
ingredients for decoration : make a “bed” of carrots in the middle, put bunnies made of eggs on the sides
Orange slice salad
salad ingredients : boiled eggs, boiled carrots, onions, chicken fillet, pickled champignons, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise
ingredients for decoration : Lay the salad in layers, shape it into an orange slice, garnish with grated carrots and egg white.
Salad “Cornucopia” No. 2
salad ingredients : boiled chicken fillet, boiled potatoes, pickles, canned corn, eggs, mayonnaise
ingredients for decoration : lettuce, vegetables, lightly salted salmon, greens, and cheese
Salad "Pineapple"
salad ingredients : smoked chicken, boiled potatoes, boiled eggs, grated hard cheese, pickles, onions, mayonnaise
ingredients for decoration : halves walnuts, green onion feathers
Tiger salad
salad ingredients : smoked or fried pork, onions, boiled carrots, eggs, grated cheese, prunes, fresh cucumbers, paprika, garlic, mayonnaise
ingredients for decoration : The salad is laid out in layers, garnished with grated carrots, black olives, and egg whites.
Salad "Bunch of Grapes"
salad ingredients : canned fish (cod liver, for example), green onions, boiled potatoes, eggs, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise
ingredients for decoration : blue grapes seedless
Salad “Male whim”
salad ingredients : smoked chicken fillet, boiled beef, eggs, Crimean onion, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise
ingredients for decoration : sandwich cheese for the calla lilies, green onions for the stems, and a yellow bell pepper to make the pistil
In anticipation of the holiday, every hospitable hostess wants to amaze guests not only with her culinary masterpieces, but also the original design of the festive table. How to Decorate a Reception Table to Create a Warm festive atmosphere, a few tips will help experienced housewives and designers.
Choosing a tablecloth
The choice of tablecloth should correspond to the nature of the upcoming holiday. For special occasions, it is recommended to lay a heavy and shiny tablecloth on the table. For festive dinners and friendly gatherings at home, the best option may be a linen or linen tablecloth in white or plain color, perhaps with a pattern around the edge.
The choice of tablecloth color largely depends on the nature of the feast, the color of the dishes, what kind of table is set and the interior of the room. IN ideal the tablecloth should be harmoniously combined with curtains and upholstery, be clean and ironed.
Options for decorating the table with napkins
Napkins, being a mandatory attribute of the festive table, can also serve as an excellent decoration. Both paper and fabric napkins are suitable for this. If napkins with a pattern look elegant, you can use them without additional decorations, placing them in vases. If you apply a little imagination, you can use plain napkins, folding them in an original way.
The easiest option is to put decorative rings on them. You can buy them in stores or make them yourself by gluing them from thick cardboard. This ring is then decorated with gift ribbons of various colors and textures or beautiful fabric. After which it is decorated with beads, sequins, seed beads or artificial stones.
Another way to use napkins to decorate a table with your own hands is to fold them into various figures, flowers, and envelopes for cutlery. Very impressive on festive table Napkins that resemble a lily flower, a fan, a boat, or a sea urchin look good.
The easiest way to decorate a table with your own hands is to fold it like an accordion and stick it between the tines of a fork. Napkin models are constantly being improved and methods for making them can be easily found on the Internet.
Table decoration with candles
The burning of candles gives the holiday a special warm and romantic atmosphere. When decorating a table with candles, you need to think about the shape of the candlestick and candle. To create a romantic atmosphere, tall openwork candlesticks are desirable.
Comfort and warmth are provided by candles in low candlesticks in the form of lanterns or transparent colored glasses. It is recommended to place candles on the table so that they do not cover the dishes. It is best to place them in the center if the guests are not sitting opposite each other.
We decorate the table with flowers and original compositions
The table decoration is always fresh flowers. A composition with a figuratively folded napkin and a vase of flowers looks beautiful, or a figurative napkin next to a decorative candle in an original candlestick. You can limit yourself to small vases with small bouquets of flowers or flower arrangements placed along the middle line of the table.
Flowers should be chosen without a strong aroma, so as not to accidentally cause allergies in guests.
It will look elegant to design an individual place for each guest if you place decorations near each plate. It may look like this: next to a beautifully folded napkin, place a vase with a flower or a candle and place a personalized greeting card or a small souvenir on the theme of the holiday next to them. Try to decorate the holiday table in the theme of the celebration.
When celebrating Christmas, place on the table a beautiful composition created from spruce or pine branches and pine cones, decorated with tinsel. If you are celebrating a wedding, it would be appropriate to place figurines of newlyweds, white doves and flower arrangements with rings or hearts on the table.
For a children's birthday, the table decoration can be colored latex and mylar balloons: flowers made from balloons of various sizes and configurations. Such compositions can be placed in the center of the table, and small figures of cartoon characters can be placed near each device.
Decoration with vegetables and fruits. Carving
In recent years, it has become very popular among housewives to decorate the holiday table with vegetables and fruits. There is real freedom here for both culinary and artistic creativity.
The easiest way is to decorate the table by cutting fruits of different colors. They can be laid out in the shape of a rainbow, a pattern, or in the theme of the celebration.
A mirror plate will look chic on the table. Washed mirror in shape big dish decorated with various sliced fruits. The bright colors of fruits, the light from candles and chandeliers, reflected in the mirror, make the table decoration simply fantastic.
The most fashionable way to decorate with vegetables and fruits, without which not a single reputable event can be done now, is carving. This is the name for cutting out various figures from fruits and vegetables using special knives.
Simple examples of table decoration can be roses made from cucumber and orange peel, chrysanthemums made from onions, lilies made from tomatoes.
You can cut the pineapple lengthwise without touching the leaves, remove the pulp from it and put salad, rice or ice cream in its place. From papaya, removing the pulp, cut boats for salads or fruits, as well as various shapes flowers, leaves and various figures. Melon makes an original basket for fruit or salad.
New Year's table decoration
On the eve of the New Year, it's time to get ready to decorate your room and New Year's table. For such an occasion, you need to choose a color scheme that matches this holiday.
Traditionally, red and green colors are used here, but silver and gold would not be superfluous in New Year's compositions. Combinations of red and gold, white and blue and... look great.
Christmas tree balls will look wonderful in glass vases, pine cones can be decorated with golden ribbons and placed near the plates, and glasses can be decorated with tinsel. Candlesticks made from tangerines in a composition with fir branches look New Year's.
You will also be pleased with the composition of fir branches, in the middle of which red apples are laid out and fixed. Before New Year's compositions It's good to add candles floating in water or candles in tall candlesticks.
Dishes can also be decorated in the form of a symbol of the year, a Christmas tree, balls, bows and other New Year's attributes. If many guests are expected at each place, it is good to put cards in the shape of a Christmas tree or a star.
There are a lot of options for decorating a holiday table. In an effort to surprise everyone with beauty and originality, the main thing is not to overdo it.
Any celebration, especially a birthday, requires careful preparation. Since when celebrating at home, the main attribute is a table with treats and drinks for guests, it is important to pay the most attention to its decor and serving. By skillfully applying the basic rules for placing dishes and cutlery, as well as showing imagination in table decoration, any housewife will amaze guests who have not even begun to try the treats.
Peculiarities
Proper serving A formal table at home is not much different from a restaurant. Acquaintance of the hostess with characteristic features Arranging dishes and treats for a birthday will allow you to arrange a feast with taste:
- You should start preparing for the feast in advance. First you need to clarify the number of expected guests. In accordance with this number, you need to prepare individual dishes.
- For special occasions in the house there should be a nice earthenware or porcelain set with sufficient quantity plates, since using dishes from different sets may be perceived as bad form. The rules for the placement of portion plates include two points: the dishes must be placed at a distance of one centimeter from the edge of the table, and half a meter should be left between adjacent plates. This will allow guests to feel relaxed at the table and at the same time communicate without problems.
- According to the serving rules, place a plate for hot dishes at the very bottom, a deep bowl for first courses on top of it, and then on top of it small plates for snacks.
- The placement of cutlery also plays a significant role. A fork should be placed on the left side of the plate, and a spoon and knife should be placed on the right side. Spoons and forks, according to serving rules, must be placed with the convex side down.
- The next step is the arrangement of containers for drinks. On birthdays it is customary to serve cold and alcoholic drinks in a beautiful glass or crystal container. The largest glasses should be placed on the left side of each guest’s plate, then all available containers should be placed in descending order, and at the end a glass should be placed on the right side.
- For organization children's day birth in Lately It has become acceptable to use something that is safe for active kids disposable tableware. In addition to the fact that it does not break, mom will not have to spend time washing it. Manufacturers provide a huge selection of colorful designs of plastic and paper tableware with images of their favorite characters, which will please any little mischief.
- There should be two types of napkins on the table: paper and fabric. The former are necessary for wiping lips and hands during and at the end of a meal, and the latter are necessary for protecting clothes from accidental contamination at the table. You can additionally decorate the table with napkins. Paper napkins should be placed around the perimeter of the entire table, placing them beautifully in napkin holders, and fabric napkins should be rolled into a tube and tied with a ribbon or threaded into special decorative rings.
- When guests sit down at the table, cold appetizers, salads and sandwiches should already be placed on it. Dishes must be placed so that all guests can comfortably reach them. Instead of one large salad bowl, it is better to use two or even three containers placed along the entire length of the table. All salads should have spoons to make them easier to serve. The first hot dishes are poured from a common container with a ladle with the utmost care, then the second hot dish is served.
What's the best way to cover it?
In addition to the correct arrangement of dishes and dishes, any housewife takes care of the festive decor. Decorated in the same style and thought out to the smallest detail, the room for meeting guests will allow you to hold a celebration on top level even at home.
The choice of style and decorations for serving a festive table largely depends on the dishes and tablecloth. If necessary, the tablecloth, as a less expensive attribute, can be replaced with a more suitable one. So, for crystal tableware, a snow-white tablecloth without any patterns would be an excellent solution; in this case, the napkins should also be white. If the service for the celebration is made of porcelain, then you can use your imagination when choosing a tablecloth. Most practical option is to purchase a universal plain tablecloth that will look good with any set of dishes.
For special occasions, it can be decorated with a silk or satin ribbon, and for tea drinking in pleasant company, the tablecloth can be decorated with lace napkins.
Candles in beautiful candlesticks, arranged in a special way, will help serve your home in a truly gala table. Whatever the number of candles used, they cannot be a replacement for the main lighting. The color scheme of candles and the style of candlesticks should resonate with the overall look.
In addition to candles and napkins, today it is customary to decorate the table with other decorative elements that will set the mood during the feast. You can often find decor recreated from natural materials. This style of decorating a festive space belongs to the rustic style. It is often used when decorating wedding celebrations, but recently the style has become popular for anniversaries.
Depending on the time of year, you can place a variety of compositions on the table: baskets with apples and other harvests, compositions with pumpkins or corn on the cob will be appropriate for autumn name days, in the spring and summer months the table can be decorated with unusual designs from seasonal flowers, and in winter the celebration will be decorated fir branches and cones reminding of the approach of the main holiday.
Lovers of Russian traditions will love the holiday decorations in the style “a la rus”. This style design is perfect for a 55th anniversary, when women and some men retire. Plates or teapots with Khokhloma, a samovar decorated with a bunch of bagels on the table, nesting dolls and sweet cockerels on sticks will help to recreate the soulful atmosphere.
For guests, you can save several scarves or kokoshniks, painted felt boots and hats with earflaps for memorable photos, and for entertainment, prepare several soulful compositions accompanied by an accordion.
Ultra-fashionable table setting in black and white with the addition of gold and hot pink accents in the form of primitive prints will be an excellent solution to celebrate a youth birthday. The main thing in this design is the play of colors and minimal decor. The place of the birthday person in this style can be decorated with a composition of balloons.
A woman doesn’t always want to celebrate such a serious date as turning 45. However, a properly decorated holiday table will remind her that this age symbolizes the prime of life and reveals in a new way feminine beauty. That's why Decorating an anniversary in a floral style will come in handy. The ideal option would be to choose dishes with floral motifs, and place the same flowers around the table in small vases. In addition to flowers, the table can be decorated with edible arrangements of berries.
Classic way table settings are suitable for the 50th anniversary for both men and women. This style of decorating a celebration is chosen for its simplicity and the absence of unnecessary details, which helps save money and not be distracted from the person of the anniversary by various little things. Characteristic of this style is the obligatory presence of a snow-white tablecloth and the same dishes, but with gold edging. Modern trends allow you to replace the tablecloth white to any other warm shade.
Another modern trend in the festive sphere is the organization of themed parties. Such ideas are great not only for celebrating a child’s birthday, but are also quite applicable for adult gatherings. Let's look at a few original holiday decoration ideas:
- Pirate gatherings. Decoration does not require overly complex details. It’s enough to hang a pirate flag on the wall, choose a striped print for table textiles, and prepare pirate gold coins as a souvenir for competitions. Other holiday attributes and costume elements should also reflect the overall theme.
- Gangster meeting. Stylizing the holiday as the 30s of the last century will be a very stylish and unusual solution for a themed party. The festive table can resemble a poker game; cigars can be prepared for adults, and replica pistols can be distributed to children. Subdued lighting will convey the atmosphere of an underground casino where money own bank birthday cards are laid out in every corner.
- Hipster style. Fans of bright colors and crazy emotions will love this anniversary design. You can use old vinyl records, retro household items, bright accessories and clothing items - everything that will help guests feel the atmosphere of that time.
- Hawaiian party is another very colorful idea for organizing a holiday in honor of the name day. For this style, you can prepare garlands of paper flowers in the brightest colors and distribute them to guests, place various transparent containers with water, as well as sea pebbles, shells or flowers around the perimeter of the table. The bottom of the table can be draped with a traditional Hawaiian skirt, and the walls can be decorated with brightly painted, whimsical wooden masks.
Decoration with flowers
Not a single anniversary or other celebration is complete without flowers. In this case, flowers are not only a compliment from guests, but also a wonderful decorative composition for decorating the table. Original and aesthetically designed bouquets will set the mood for the holiday and make it truly royal. Often, to create such compositions for an anniversary, they turn to the help of florists, but at home you can create a flower island yourself.
- Decorating the table in this way should be balanced. That is, a bouquet of decent size should be singular and decorate the central part of the table or the place of the birthday person. Miniature compositions can be located along the entire length of the table.
- When choosing the size and splendor of the bouquet, you should take into account the fact that it should not block the interlocutors from each other. In addition, you should not place voluminous flower islands on a richly furnished table, but during tea drinking an impressive bouquet would be quite appropriate.
- To decorate a feast, you should choose specimens with a subtle, subtle aroma. This will allow you not to overpower the smells of the food, and will also protect your guests from developing allergies or headaches.
- The color scheme of the composition should also be chosen wisely. A colorful bouquet will look great on a classic snow-white tablecloth, but if there is an abundance of brightly colored decor, it is better to give preference to a monochromatic composition that echoes the main color scheme.
- The choice of vases is another important point. The best option can be called simple shapes and materials that echo other tableware. Laconic glass vases are universal. For round tables, you can choose oval flower stands; it is better to place voluminous bouquets in the center of the table, and small identical compositions - in a circle. The square shape of the tabletop determines the choice of vases with clear lines, and on a rectangular table it would be successful to place vases of any shape along the center on a strip of fabric contrasting with the tablecloth.
Knowing the rules of table setting and how to decorate it, you can arrange a truly royal feast. A few tricks will help make the holiday as comfortable as possible:
- Before you think holiday decor, the status of the guests should be analyzed. Almost any table setting is suitable for a cozy home environment, but it is better to choose light warm colors, floral arrangements and classic tableware. For youth party Bright design styles with unusual details will be appropriate. A feast with young children requires the presence of sweet treats and safe cutlery. It is better for colleagues, business partners or unfamiliar people to organize a feast in a discreet atmosphere without any frills, observing the rules of business etiquette used in the office.
- If you plan to organize a feast in a sauna or country bathhouse, you should also carefully consider the table setting. Before couples procedures, you can prepare a small buffet with light vegetables or fruit snacks and non-alcoholic refreshing drinks. In this case, the main treats should be served only after all the guests have swam in the pool, visited the steam room and recovered a little. Vegetables and vegetables are chosen as dishes in such an environment. fruit salads, seafood dishes, nuts.
Rolls and sushi, snacks in pita bread, and tartlets would also be appropriate. Alcoholic drinks can be served with main courses - barbecue, grilled chicken, baked fish, grilled vegetables.
How to decorate a birthday table at home, many housewives look for photos for inspiration on the Internet. Why does a beautifully set table attract attention and become almost the center of any holiday? Even if you are planning a buffet without seating? Perhaps it's nature. When people find themselves in an unfamiliar environment, they immediately look for a source of food and their gaze stumbles upon a beautifully furnished table. Noticing the abundance of appetizers, various cuts, and salads, they rejoice and anticipate a rich feast. And bright colors and beautiful table setting complete the picture.
Ideal table
Before discussing table decoration ideas, it is worth discussing what the table setting actually consists of:
It is important to arrange dishes and cutlery correctly. Each spoon, fork and plate has its own purpose and place on the table. Unwritten rules exist for the table at any celebration.
arranging tablecloths, napkins, chairs for guests, arranging all dishes with appetizers and salads, harmonious combination colors.
comfort - maintaining personal space for each guest, placing all cutlery, glasses and snacks so that any guest can easily reach out and take what they need.
What should the holiday be like in general and the whole house? What does it consist of and how to decorate a birthday table at home, photo simply, without spending a lot of time, while maintaining the beauty and completeness of the idea?
First, prepare everything for a beautifully decorated reception room:
If it's a birthday, they usually draw beautiful posters with wishes, inflate balloons and take colorful ribbons. All this is needed to decorate the room and table as well.
It is important to combine colors correctly: tablecloth, chair coverings, room decorations, rag napkins - all this must be in harmony with each other to create a single composition.
prepare a festive set of dishes - a service that includes salad bowls, a tureen and plates for the first, second and dessert, and cups for tea is suitable for the festive table. There are many items in such services. Assorted dishes of different colors will be out of place on a holiday table, unless it is a combination of crystal salad vases with ceramic plates, for example, or other tableware.
There are three rules for cutlery: polished to a shine, belong to the same set and in excellent condition.
It is also advisable to take glasses from one set or use several identical sets. Any differences are immediately noticeable, which can create a strange atmosphere at the table.
People are accustomed to unconsciously comparing theirs with their neighbors; it is important not to single out any of the guests and, if possible, serve everyone the same way.
The holiday menu also influences the arrangement of dishes. For example, if the first is not planned, then there will be no deep plates on the table. In most cases, hot dishes are served in large plates in the center of the table, sometimes repeated when the table is long. Therefore, at the right moment, the owner cleverly makes room in the center for the main dish. Large spoons or ladles are served on several sides so that guests can help themselves.
How to achieve color harmony?
Experienced housewives consider a tablecloth to be the basis of any table setting. There is no need to skimp on the holiday option, and for practical women there are several rules:
If you like a fabric tablecloth, it looks better and is easier to wash, lay either a transparent film on top, protecting it from food drops and stains, or place special coasters under the plate in front of each guest that are easy to clean. Similar techniques are used in restaurants.
How to decorate a table for a birthday at home, photo for 50 years - if the tablecloth is plain, then you can take napkins with a pattern. If the tablecloth has a pattern, the napkins either repeat it or are plain.
When decorating the table with flowers, you also need to pay attention to the colors so that the bouquet is in harmony with the tablecloth. More often, housewives choose plain cloth tablecloths made from expensive, dense fabrics. When placing colored dishes, you need to follow the pattern and color of the cutlery so that everything matches. Then the table will look like a solid, beautiful composition. When preparing a table for the hero of the day, they usually place a vase near him for flowers from guests, but so that it does not interfere with his communication with others and does not block the table. Therefore, the hero of the day himself must be placed comfortably so that he can be seen by other guests.
Plates for guests, count about a centimeter and a half from the edge, so that the guest does not tip it over with an awkward movement festive dinner. You need to arrange them like this: the largest and flattest ones on the bottom for the second one, deep plates on them for the first one, and small ones on top for appetizers.
Sometimes they just put two plates, and when the guests have treated themselves to appetizers, the first is served to everyone, pouring hot food from the soup bowl. Usually, all holidays begin with appetizers - salads, various cuts, which guests use to work up an appetite.
How to decorate a table for a birthday at home, photo for a child - a minimum of strict rules and difficulties with cutlery. Children should feel comfortable at the table and have access to all dishes. Especially if the table is for little ones. After all, the main thing for children is to eat deliciously and have fun. Beautiful plastic birthday party sets are great for serving. They are decorated with patterns, do not break and are always in the right quantity.
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