Favourite Transitional Tabletop Tips

It's official.

We are now starting to eat indoors more than outdoors as the days get shorter and the evenings get cooler.

Summer's ease of entertaining has always been just that-easy. Cutting flowers from the garden or garnishing the table with herbs is so simple and effective. Put something on the barbecue and dinner is served. 

But as we move indoors, setting a fall table can be equally inspiring and just as easy!

Here are some of my favourite tabletop tips to help you transition from the summer season to fall.

Adorn your fall tabletop with cut branches of leaves.

I love to forage, and fall is one of the best times to do it. There are so many beautiful wild flowers and weeds, so I always keep a pair of clippers in my car just in case. You can find them alongside the road or in parks. They look even more wild when left to dry in a vase. 

Adorn your table with cut branches of leaves. Put them in a tall vase and have fun arranging them artfully. Leave them to crinkle and dry.

Fall Tabletop Place Setting

Set up contrast in your place settings. A neutral placemat adds contrast to black dinner plates or black cutlery. Add colored stemware in amber or dark green.

Use natural linen napkins and put away the iron. These look best unpressed. Gather them together with natural twine and tuck a sprig of berries or dried thistle to bring the outdoors in.

Take your outdoor table lighting indoors, and use it “restaurant style” on your table for a moody vibe.

Make a Seasonal Soup

Roasted squash soup is one of my favourites and so nice to use the squash from my garden!

Create a Striking Centrepiece

Use a bed of cut leaves and place a tumble of small pumpkins or gourds on them. Nestle some votives around them for ambiance.