Christmas on TooSurToo : Christmas table decoration and New Year Eve

Invite for the festive year-end allows you to find friends, family ... Although the menu of festive meal is very important to decorate the table is crucial.

The table must be decorated with care, because its goal is to give a festive look to your dining room and create a magical atmosphere peculiar to the spirit of Christmas ... A beautiful table, cozy, well decorated, enables small and old to integrate into the festive spirit and enjoy the menu even more!

Moreover, once the table for Christmas Eve well decorated, the menu becomes secondary ... because even the simplest dishes become a pretty well if it is highlighted, on your table decorated in Christmas colors (if he himself is as tasteful of course)!

The basics of table decorations for the holiday of the year

A color that sets the tone

First, choose a color that will set the tone for the whole decoration. Keep a unit in both colors to decorate the table that all the Christmas decorations (see Decoration ambiance for Christmas 2024).

The personalized placemat

The web is an important element of decoration. A sheet of paper may well be the case, but you often find during the Christmas fabrics with Christmas motifs in inexpensive stores like Toto: a hem is simply to achieve. You can very well achieve that hem with fabric glue if you do not end designer! You'll get a ply machine washable and reusable, not much more expensive than the sheets of paper ...

The personalized placemat

Very easily, you can use a plastic mat that you, and cover with a paper towel attached to the back with tape, and voila! Or even easier, use an unfolded paper towel on which you have taken care to remove the folds up.

Towels to decorate

You can use paper towels for guest towels, handy for disposable! But it is not enough to put it simply, we must find a "trick" to make this towel approval of the decoration. You can fold the towel to give it a nice shape and place in glass (folding fan for example) or by placing it on the placemat or plate. You can also ride. Then find a little more to add to the towel as a napkin drawn by tying the curling ribbon, adding a colorful mini clothespins ... Find our napkin folding step by step.

Tips and more for decorating the table well

Make-up and menu card

Table at each place a mark-up to even decorate the table but also break the monotony. You can make different kinds of space marks: just cardboard, or in a Christmas boot that you can do yourself. You can also remove the menu card, of course, always in harmony with the rest of your decorations, on which the guest's name will be written in golden letters.

Small Decorations

Remove small objects scatter all over the table as candles and hurricane lamps (purchased or you have decorated with painting on glass repositionable), elements such as balls or garlands, bows gift, small gift packages you've made yourself, flower petals, ... Sprinkle all over the table, and do not forget the corner!

Finally, the light must be evenly distributed and screened all over the table ..

Examples of dressings and table decorations

Example of a dressing table decorated in red and gold

In this example table compiled on the occasion of Christmas and New Year in shades of red and gold:
- The web is made of a fabric printed with Christmas gifts and Christmas Teddy on a green background
- A simple plastic placemat is covered with a paper towel red, attached with tape on the back,
- The mark-up is conducted with the red and white felt-like bundle of Christmas (DIY record of achievement in a Christmas boot)
- The front of the menu card was made with the collage technique of towel, while the back allows you to write in pen Gilded different dishes,
- And the final touch of decoration is done with Christmas ornaments, wreaths and candles scattered across the table.

Example of a dressing table decorated in red and white

Here is an example of a cover on a table decorated in red and white:
- The web is made of a fabric printed with Christmas: Christmas Papas beige and red
- The mat is made with a paper towel red deployed for two guests at the end of the table, while the four other guests have a table runner white
- Wine glasses and water are decorated with repositionnable paint: 1 pattern per guest (round red, white stars and red stars)
- Folding towels is made from two separate towels: a large solid red 40x40 cm, in which a smaller white and red patterned dimensions 33x33xm takes place

- Finally, the table is strewn with various decorations: centerpiece "figurines", felt Christmas boot, Felt stellation wreath, Christmas balls, star Felt ...

You can see the table made a whole viewed from the top in the photo-cons: do not forget a few tealight candles lit for a cozy atmosphere!

Variation on the theme of red / white (see photo below):

Replace the white table runner with red paper napkins for each guest, make a napkin accordion triangle placed on each plate, create an illuminated center-piece

and sprinkle a lighted garland of white snowballs ... Side mark-up: a small plastic jar of red colored sand at the bottom, and a small wooden figurine placed inside ... then enter the name of your guest on the glass!