My Five Favorite Tabletop Accessories

We’re coming into the busiest time of the year for parties and entertaining so my friends Lisa of Shine Your Light, Jennifer of Dimples & Tangles, Pam of Simple Details, and I thought it’d be fun to share our favorite tabletop accessories (the ones that you grab time and time again when you want to make a killer tablescape!) for this month’s My Five Favorites. And we’re welcoming Kelley of Kelley Nan as our guest host! Kelley creates some of the most stunning tablescapes in blogland so we couldn’t have picked anyone more perfect for this month’s theme. I mean… have you seen her beyond-gorgeous fall tablescape??

Thanks so much for joining us Kelley! Now let’s get going and check out my five favorite tabletop accessories! (post includes some affiliate links – see my full disclosure statement {here})

Woven Chargers

The simple addition of woven chargers to a table can take it from kinda pretty to knock-out beautiful! The chargers that I go back to time and time again are woven ones because I love the contrast between the hard surfaces of plates and the warm chunky texture of the chargers.

I found my woven chargers at a local thrift store but {these chargers} look almost identical. I also used woven Lattad chargers from IKEA for the Habitat for Humanity kitchen makeover I did this summer – they’re a great budget choice at just $4 each!  

My Scalloped Wood Bowl (the perfect centerpiece!)

You guys are probably sick of seeing this wood bowl because I admittedly use it as my table centerpiece way more often than I probably should. It’s just one of those pieces that always seems to work, no matter what the season or what you put in it.

You can find my scalloped wood bowl {here} and a few other favorite bowls that could be used as centerpieces here:

A Pair of Glass Hurricane Vases

Other centerpiece favorites are the two glass hurricanes that I use as a pair on many of my holiday tables. They are the perfect height and width for holding any type of blooms or branches you place in them:

And I sometimes use just a single one of these vases in other spaces in my home such as my office console.

Unfortunately these suckers aren’t exactly cheap (you can find them {here}). I got mine at a huge discount at one of Juliska’s local warehouse sales but honestly I use them so much that they would have been worth buying even at full price.

A Patterned Table Runner

I love the color and wood grain of our dining room table but also love the added softness of table linens so a table runner is the perfect compromise! My table is a bit of an odd length so I’ve made all of my table runners myself and let me tell you, if I’m capable of doing it then so are you because my sewing skills are pretty nonexistent. It’s as simple as cutting your fabric and folding it under and sewing the edges. And if you don’t sew, using {this fusible bonding tape} and an iron works every bit as well! My favorites are my buffalo check table runner (I bought my fabric locally and made it but {this runner} looks similar)

and my striped table runner made with {this ticking stripe fabric} and embellished with macramé fringe on the ends – you can find my tutorial for this project {here}:

Napkins that You Have Fun With

I love, love, love patterned fabric napkins and while it’d be fun to have new ones for every season, that’s just not realistic so instead I change things up by using the same ole napkins but in different ways. For one of my tablescapes this past spring I created a triple fold with my napkins and tucked the silverware inside the folds (I share the step-by-step of how to do this in {this post}).

On some tablescapes (especially if it’s outdoors) I roll my silverware in napkins and tie them with a pretty ribbon. This is also a great way to do things when you’re hosting a buffet so your guests can just grab a rolled bundle in the buffet line.

And sometimes I get a little more creative with my napkins, such as in this Easter tablescape where I folded them in the shape of bunnies (you can see more of this tablescape {here}).

Unfortunately I’ve had all of these napkins for years so they’re no longer available but these are some of the currently available ones that I’ve been eyeing:

So that wraps up my five favorite tabletop essentials! Be sure to hop over and check out my friends’ favorites too – they all have some great ideas to share:

Kelley – Kelley Nan

Pam – Simple Details

Jennifer – Dimples & Tangles

Lisa – Shine Your Light

And if you missed any of my past posts from our My Five Favorites series, you can catch up here with my five favorite:

XO,