20 Summer Centerpiece Ideas That Make a Memorable Table Setting
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Bring color and life to any room with a simple summer table decoration. Fresh flowers, plants, or greenery can instantly upgrade the look, be that a dining table, end table, or credenza. And there’s no need to buy high-end floral arrangements. You can make your own simple centerpiece with fresh-cut flowers from your garden, interesting branches or grasses, or even inexpensive grocery-store flower arrangements for a budget-friendly look that will add a sweet scent to your home. If fresh isn’t your thing, you’ll be thrilled to know that faux flowers have come a very long way. Some look so real, you’ll enjoy them indefinitely—or until you’re ready for a change! Scroll these ideas and get inspired to create your own beautiful summer centerpiece.
Hydrangea Centerpiece
Ray Kachatorian
A potted plant will deliver interesting foliage and blooms for weeks and months, making a potted summer centerpiece a lasting way to bring fresh flowers to your table. We love to keep it simple with a beauty like white hydrangeas. Their huge clusters of blooms and big leaves give a lot of impact from a single plant. Think about pairing your live plant with a complementary pot. The simplicity of go-with-anything white blooms pop against the bright blue.
Minimalist Centerpiece
Jay Wilde
A trip to the crafts store will provide unlimited inspiration like these feathery pink fibers that fill in the space between and around chunky white pillar candles. The fibers add softness down the length of the table, while adding the look of dried sea fans. (It’s a fun look for a coastal aesthetic.) Tall taper candles add height and sophistication to this outdoor dining set-up. Flameless pillars work great here and eliminate any risk of those fibers catching on fire.
Outdoor Centerpiece
Matthew Benson
Light summer meals that linger into the evening make charcuterie al fresco on the patio something to celebrate. Elevate your table with a beautiful textile like a tablecloth or a light summer blanket. A tall wood vase with a mix of casual cut flowers, including some weeds (hey, you’ve got to admit that Queen Anne’s lace is pretty!), puts the floral mix high above the food, which is a nice idea when you’re serving little nibbles like cheese and grapes that require reaching into a shared space. Add a couple of candles for sparkle and a cold bottle of white wine.
Tall Centerpiece
Helen Norman
Your fresh cuttings can make a statement on a side table or credenza—or even the mantel. Spikes of purple delphinium fill a vase with a smaller neck, which gives these long bloomers extra support and structure. Choosing a single type of cut flower adds a bolder splash of color and minimizes fussy arranging. Plop them in the vessel and enjoy. This arrangement complements the color next to a painting.
Colorful Flowers
Kat Teutsch
Flowers are one element of a summer centerpiece, but where would we be without the vase? A transparent glass vase like the one holding the yellow flowers is a winner because you can see the water height and enjoy the shapes that the stems create. Opaque vases like the one holding the pink peony put the focus on the blooms. We love to consider color as we’re choosing the right vessel for our summer centerpieces. These brights add just as much life to the room as the flowers they’re holding.
Tropical Centerpiece
Nicolas Gourguechon
Greens are everything, and using a bold piece of greenery along with a few blooms is a look we want to replicate. These cut tropicals from the flower shop spark happy memories of destination vacations. A simple glass vase lets the monstera leaf and orange heliconia take the spotlight in this arrangement. A branch of figs gives a great shape detail to the arrangement while pink tropical ginger flowers add ruffle. Use this large-scale centerpiece on a grand dining table, or let it shine on its own on a summer table.
Planter Box
Edmund Barr
Take cues from your window boxes for summer floral arrangement ideas. A rustic wood box from the local crafts store stars in this summer centerpiece idea. Adding a thick piece of floral foam lets you create the arrangement closer to the top of the box so it creates a nice mounding effect. Fill it with flowers, greens, and fruit. We like the mix of dahlias, seeded eucalyptus, and a few fresh lemons. Tip: Citrus fruit is a great filler that’s affordable, colorful, and fragrant.
Small Summer Centerpieces
Annie Schlechter
Floral arrangements don’t have to be large to make a big impact on your design. This summer centerpiece idea showcases how to mix a variety of small, single-stem vases for a minimalist look. Colorful annual zinnias make a happy table and bloom prolifically during their growing season. You could set a gorgeous table like this over and over, making it more fun to host outdoor gatherings all summer season.
Clustered Arrangement
Kritsada Panichgul
Fragrant spring blooms like lilac fill the foyer with a scent that can’t be missed. With lilacs, you can take cuttings from the new growth of the bush, then put them in a large vase of water. Cut branches always add drama and create a statement centerpiece. Due to its size, placing this arrangement on a side table adds life to the room, whereas if set on the dining table, this arrangement would overwhelm the space and stifle conversation. Placing the branches in a blue vase ties it to the shades of blue used throughout the rest of the room.
Cacti Cluster
Marty Baldwin
Cacti and succulents create graphic arrangement for fuss-free table centerpiece. While succulents and cacti generally prefer a more temperate and arid conditions, they will do quite well on an outdoor table or in a light-filled interior room. They mingle beautifully in coordinating terra cotta pots. These potted plants can serve as a quick option for adding life to your table when fresh blooms aren’t available.
Pastel Centerpiece
Atarah Atkinson
For the maximalist who loves layers of feminine florals, you can build a statement centerpiece using several vases that cluster together. You might not think to blend purple, orange, pink, and white blooms, but giving several shades of each allow the look to blend. The informal mix supports the cottage core aesthetic on the tabletop, too. Quirky table decor, such as twisted taper candles and purple cloud placemats layer more shades of color.
Fine China
Victoria Pearson
When you’re setting your summer table decorations, make room for formal china. These intricate pieces can inspire a summer centerpiece idea that might surprise you. Though the nature of china and cut glass looks fancy, you can dial down the fuss with a less expected mix of more casual cut flowers. Flowers known for their graceful stems and graphic flowers, including poppy, ranunculus, and tulip, bring movement to the mix. It’s a nice bonus that the blooms perfectly marry the table setting.
Pink Summer Centerpiece
Jay Wilde
When you have large, romantic flower like peonies available, cut a bunch and let their beauty do all the design work for you. A hefty white pitcher makes the blooms the star of this summer centerpiece. To say these sweet pink flowers are big is an understatement. Peony blooms can be several inches across and carry a fragrance that’s just as big and lovely.
Two-Tier Display
Adam Albright
For large dining tables, consider elevating your arrangement on a footed pedestal. A vintage wood cake stand provides a platform with a sturdy base, but you could use a new stand to achieve the same result. We find the ceramic lettuce vase filled with spiky mums amusing in the best way.
Succulent Dish Garden
Adam Albright
Circle round for a lesson in layering shapes. What do you get when you set a round table with a round centerpiece? Visual interest. A succulent dish garden planted in a saturated red planter makes for such a fun summer table decoration. It’s low height doesn’t interrupt the flow of conversation, and the varied shapes and shades of the succulents pair well with the bright table setting.
Mixed Summer Centerpiece
Blaine Moats
Can’t decide on just one summer centerpiece idea? Combine several to create a table decoration with lots of color and interest. This design groups a vase of ranunculus on a small wood tray next to aloe for a centerpiece that will hold its good looks long after the cut blooms fade. Mixing a variety of textures down the middle of the table makes it interesting.
Branching Centerpiece
Carson Downing
Don’t overlook flowering branches when creating a floral arrangement. While most blooming tree branches pop in the spring, you could also style a seasonal centerpiece with green leaves in the summer or harvest hues in the fall. This design starts with traditional blooms. It’s enhanced with a well-placed branch with small white flowers that adds height and an airy look. Smaller branches placed in a wood vase complement the larger centerpiece.
Bold Centerpiece
David Tsay
If you want to make a statement with your summer floral arrangement, look no further than this table runner of flowers. The secret is in the harmonious mix of pink and purple shades, light to dark. This look can be achieved by placing multiple small vases overflowing with blooms in a loose line down the middle of the table. This arrangement was made with roses, anemones, ranunculus, allium, and dahlia.
Ups and Downs
David Tsay
Both casual and elegant at the same time, this summer centerpiece idea arranges pink and yellow blooms down the length of the table in glass and ceramic, sculptural and cylindrical vases. It’s a mix that’s held together by the repetition of the cut flower types and colors that dance down the center of the table. Placing the blooms at a variety of heights adds interest and helps draw in the eye. It also provides contrast to the tall cactus in the corner of the room.
Small Summer Centerpiece
Molly Culver
If you love an arrangement with all the flowers, find a common thread that ties the look together. This bright pinks mixed with a few pastel pinks let the unique ruffle and petal shape of each flower add visual texture without a choir of colors fighting for attention. The bright colors stand out from the more subdued table setting, but complement the light pink placemats and dishes.
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