With the warmer weather on its way, many of us feel the need to lighten up our indoor spaces. Make one of these easy and inexpensive vignettes the center of your dining experience or top a coffee table to make an inviting area for tea and conversation. Try these 3 easy summer centerpieces.
Easy Summer Centerpieces
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Supplies Used and Recommendations:
- small garden statue
- small metal lantern
- cylinder vase
- found twigs
Idea 1: Use Outdoor Decor in Your Centerpiece
Don’t be afraid to make use of smaller outdoor items. Garden birds, lanterns and other decorative summer pieces from the dollar store are all fair game for use inside, as well as out.
This grouping features a stone-look bird, a tea light lantern and some decorative twigs and stones in a tall cylinder vase. We snipped these twigs from a longer ornamental bunch, but you could also find suitable branches in your own backyard.
Add a couple of tall faux floral stems to the vase for a hit of colour, if you wish.
Idea 2: Succulent Rock Garden
Supplies Used and Recommendations:
- tray
- plate or shallow plant dish
- faux succulents
- river rocks
- small metal lantern
Top a tray with a rock garden and a small metal lantern. Here, we’ve used a square dinner plate and three small potted faux succulents. You can use wax or battery-operated tea lights in this lantern.
Idea 3: Make a Centerpiece Using Flower Heads
Extend the life of a floral bouquet and make a summery centerpiece with three different sizes of glass vases and some river rocks. Once your fresh flowers have started to wilt, snip the tops off of the ones that still look good and float them in water. I used three flower heads in the two larger vases. Add a sprig of greenery from the bouquet to each vase and group them on a tray.
This is a great way to prolong the life of flowers so you can enjoy them a little longer.
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