When inviting friends for a cup of coffee, I sometimes want to surprise them not only refined taste and aroma, but also original serving. How to beautifully decorate a table with your own hands? How beautiful to fold napkins, lay out fruits, cakes? And what else can you use for table decoration? Today we want to share with you little secrets to raise the mood, create a warm, comfortable atmosphere and teach you how to surprise your guests.
We hasten to note that a different company suggests its serving. The main thing is to start with some idea. She may be inspired by a coffee producer, your favorite movie or a book. Or maybe you will decorate the table with items decorated with your hands, such as coffee beans. The main thing is not to forget that if it is no formal reception or business meeting where necessary adhere to the rules of etiquette. the dull style of the classic servings can be confidently diluted with your ideas.
Any element of decor, starting from tablecloths and ending with a central composition. And if interesting Will there be several details at once? Then your table is required guests will remember, and coffee will add another theme for a lively discussions.
But let’s start in order
Invitation cards. If you want to set the tone of the party in advance and customize your guests to a specific style, make small invitation cards. Use tracing paper, clippings of bright glossy magazines, or sign a small postcard. Funny invitation cards for dessert-party can be decorated with flowers.
Tablecloth. The tablecloth made by do it yourself. To do this, you need a plain linen white tablecloth, appliqués in the form of symbols of the year, flowers, ribbons, beads, rhinestones. The tablecloth should be put on the table as it will be on holiday. Sew on the hanging edges or with with the help of an iron stick on applications and flowers. From tapes make bows in the middle of which stick or sew large fucking beads, then sew these bows on the tablecloth in a chaotic okay. Another version of the festive tablecloth. Table first we cover it with a classic white tablecloth, and on top we put a white paper with flowers painted on it and written poems. Each guest can devote a separate poem or stanza, and in the center write the main words of the evening. For example: “Rose smells a rose. Call it a rose, at least not. ”
Napkins One of the most essential building blocks The table setting is a napkin. It is she who gives purity and accuracy. A beautifully laid and well-ironed napkin made of canvases perfectly decorate the table.
Flowers Instead of traditional flowers, you can put yours on the table indoor plants sitting in cozy pots. But if all of a sudden If you want to decorate the table with a small bouquet, then this idea can also be original beat. To do this, you need a set of sustainable coffee cups and a very steady table. Make cups friend on friend, turning the handles in different directions, and in the upper cup pour water and put a small bouquet.
If in addition to the coffee service in which you plan to serve coffee for guests, you still have a coffee pot, a cup and saucer and a milk jug or sugar bowl from another service, then they must to be on the table. Put them next to each other, fill water and place in them small bunches of flowers. Although the idea of flowers on the table may not show original, but certainly unusual will be the form of vases!
Composition. Since we are talking about decorating a table for coffee, then the table itself can be decorated with coffee cups and small spoons. To make this decoration stand out from the total number of various cups and plates, you need to arrange and coasters under it. As such glass jars of different sizes or transparent can serve bulk containers. You can decorate such coasters with napkins with bright pattern, wrapping them inside the can.
Fruits . Fresh fruit and berries. Put the berries in the baskets for each guest, and berries in transparent vases look more effective. Fruit can previously washed, dried, put in a beautiful plate and Sprinkle lightly with icing sugar. Alternatively, you can take pears and apples and with the help of food spray colors paint in gold and silver color. Allow colored fruits to dry. Put prepared fruit in a glass vase and center the table.
Cakes. To support the idea of diverse dishes, you can independently make a dish for sweets from lonely cups and plates left over from great-grandmother’s services. For this, at the very put a large plate upside down on a cup, place another one smaller plate, on top again a cup, and so on, while on top there will not be a miniature saucer. On plates can be laid out cakes, sweets, cookies and all that you want to serve guests to coffee. Continuing the theme of coffee pots, the table can be decorated with something edible, for example, bake a round cake and with marzipan arrange it in the form of a coffee pot, then you get a feast similar to The Mad Hatter and March Hare Tea Party from Alice in the Country miracles!
Candles Nothing gives mystery and mystery to decorating the festive table like candles. Now in stores such a large number of all kinds of candles are sold that just come to the store and buy what is most liked. But, it’s more interesting to do this: buy simple candles and garnish with spices – cinnamon sticks and bay leaf. Attach them to the candle from all sides and tie them with braid. Before, how to light a candle, the decoration is removed from it. Another variant. Take branches of any indoor climbing plant such as ivy and paint them with a spray paint in gold or silver color (if sorry to touch the plant, the leaves can be easily drawn on album sheet). Or you can put in a transparent high vase a thick candle and cover with slices of orange. It will not only be beautiful, but also fragrant!
Sweets . A treat at our party – chocolate, cakes, truffles and. roses. Confectioners say any rose can be dipped in chocolate and eat. These flowers can also be candied, but from tender rose petals can cook delicious jam. Bon appetit! BUT we borrowed another idea for decorating the table from glossy magazines. Open any, choose a nice picture and cut out the page with it. Fold the fist out of it and put there truffle or candied rose. And in order to plate looked elegant, you can put on each of them on a bright berry or candy.
The aroma. To create a festive atmosphere, you can add the smell of a coffee meal. Fold the chopped ginger root in advance, a few broken cinnamon sticks, a handful of peeled nuts and several strips of dry orange peel in a jar. Sprinkle everything 10-15 drops of orange and clove oils and tightly closing, leave for a few days. Before the holiday lay out in deep transparent glass vase or salad bowl. If the smell will be very sharp, put the mixture on the windowsill or in the hallway. It will create beautiful aura of the holiday.
Seating cards. If the company is selected exclusively female, then you can recall films with female groups in starring, for example, Sex and the City, and decorate the table in consistent with the theme of this film. Coffee always assumes availability sweets, which can also be decorated in their own way. Cut out photos of the main characters of the film, decorate them with rhinestones, glue to Toothpicks and stick in cakes. The same way of decorating is possible use to create seating cards, only instead photos of actors use photos of your friends. It will turn out and original and tasty, and every guest will immediately receive a sweet a treat! You can also sign a small card. By the way, on She can write wishes to the guest and put on a plate. Surprise and positive emotions are provided!
Presents . You can delight guests at the chocolate party, giving them a wonderful gift – a truffle in a box. By the way it’s a good idea for a birthday present or any other celebration. And if you collect on a large plate a lot of boxes with truffles, you can arrange an evening of fortune telling. And do not wait for Baptism.
Coffee Coffee in itself can be a wonderful table decoration. Coffee beans in a graceful vase look great. But not worth it forget that in a cup of coffee you can create a masterpiece with your own hands. Read our Latte art section on how to do this. Very beautiful coffee puff cocktails look, see our selection recipes.
Table setting and coffee serving can be considered a ritual or even art, and therefore, to approach this process must be creative. Coffee drinking should take place in a pleasant, comfortable and sincere atmosphere, and the serving is designed to create the right mood. That is why it should not be boring or burdensome for mistresses. Come up with your interesting serving options more often invite guests and let your table always be the most original, most memorable and most beautiful.
