Our Colorful and Thrifty Spring Tablescape...3 Different Ways!

by The Rustic Boxwood

Hey friends! Thanks for stopping by! Can you believe Easter is already this weekend?? Where did the time go?! I absolutely love this time of year...the fragrant flowers, warmer temps, and the beautiful pastel colors. I don't know about you, but I feel like I've come out of hibernation from winter when Spring hits. This lovely season puts an extra hop in my step!
To start off this season right, and to prepare for Easter weekend, I've chosen to share 3 thrifty tablescape ideas that will hopefully help inspire you to create a colorful tablescape you'll love! (If you'd like to see more detailed pics, there's a link at the bottom of this post that will take you directly to my blog, The Rustic Boxwood. :)

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I didn’t really know how I was going to decorate our table. I needed inspiration. Of course, Pinterest is always one of the first places I visit, but sometimes just walking physically through a store — the smells, the colors, the textures — really helps to get my creative juices flowing. So, when I found this beautiful watercolor table runner while shopping in one of my fave home decor stores, I chose to make it my focal point for our tablescape! The soft pastels with the pretty painted flowers screamed Spring in a soft way to me.

After choosing the focal point, I found some pretty, yellow plates (in the same store) that were in the same color palette as my runner. Score! Next, I found some shabby chic, clear glasses with little bunnies on them (also in the same store). These glasses pulled out the same greens as the runner. Another score!

Also, I love how faux flowers are beginning to look more and more like REAL flowers. Wouldn’t you agree?? At my local craft store, there were two separate types of peonies (at least at my store)…the $5 kind and the $15 kind. I chose the latter. It just looked more real, the colors were more vibrant, and it felt like an actual flower! And with the 40% off sale, and then my additional 20% off coupon, I was able to get each stem at about $7 each. Not bad considering that one real stem would cost me $10 at my local flower shop! Plus, with my new fake flowers, I can re-use them over and over again, and I don’t even have to worry about remembering to water them. I’d say it’s a win-win!

Let's get started!

Tablescape #1

I began with the yellow plates...and as I mentioned before, the pastel green drinking glasses looked perfect with the watercolor runner, the yellow plates and the chargers!

First, I took my 4-pack flour sack dish towels and folded each one up to make 4 napkins. (Everyone needs to have at least one pack in their home!! You can do so much with them…but that’s a whole different blog post for another day.) 😉 Next, I chose to use gold flatware to pull out the yellow tones in the runner.

To add to the centerpiece, I inserted faux hydrangeas into thrifted milk glass vases.

Tablescape #2

To switch it up a little, I replaced the hydrangeas with these beautiful faux peonies. Then, I replaced the flour-sack napkins with my collection of dainty, floral plates that pull out the pinks, yellows and greens from the runner.

Oh, and I felt there needed to be more pops of pink on the table, so I scoured the house for the perfect statement, and I finally found scraps of pink and white ticking fabric (that I bought at a yard sale). The funny thing is they were already cut into leaf-like patterns. How perfect was it that I could make them look like extensions of the peonies! I know it sounds crazy, but I really love it!

Doesn't this faux peony look ah-mazing??!!

Tablescape #3

Lastly, my third choice was to replace the yellow plates and dainty china with simple white plates that I purchased for 99 cents each at a thrift store.

I also added some fun, pink stripey straws from the dollar spot at Target, along with more hydrangeas and peonies in thrifted milk glass vases. :)

So, here are my ideas for thrifty Spring tablescapes…done 3 ways. Which tablescape is the winner? Is it the yellow-plate decor, the dainty china decor, or the white-plate decor? I’d love to hear your thoughts! You can comment below, or drop by my Instagram feed and let me know what you like best. Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you’ve been inspired to create a colorful and thrifty Spring tablescape for your own home!

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Mary on Mar 23, 2016
Where did you find glasses and china

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Hannah V on Mar 23, 2016
Obsessed with those drinking glasses! And the peonies :)

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- The Rustic Boxwood on Mar 25, 2016
  Thank you, Hannah! ;)
  
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Hillela G. on Mar 24, 2016
I love the greens and pinks!

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- The Rustic Boxwood on Mar 25, 2016
  Thanks so much, Hillela!
  
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