Candlelight to create a fairy atmosphere. How to prepare the table on a summer evening with the complicity of soft lighting? Is dining by candlelight only for romantic occasions?
L’summer that arrives brings with it the desire to enjoy being in company, sharing with our friends and flirting with our love. The sunset comes late in the evening and we are left with the desire to live again, as if we didn’t want to let the day go. What better way to enjoy the good weather and the colors of the warm season than to have dinner with friends?
We’ve been postponing an appointment with colleagues or a couple we haven’t seen since last summer for months and it’s time to invite them to dinner. Every evening in the summer is a good opportunity to spend a special evening with our love, thanks to the atmosphere of the summer lights.
The moonlight makes everything shine and we just have to turn off the lights and light the candles to experience an evening that we have prepared with attention to detail.
Read also: Valentine’s Day: romantic ideas for setting the table
The table in soft light: tips for setting up
There protagonist of a dinner in the summer is just the summer, but we want to overdo it. We focus on light suffused of candlelight and think about how to fix it on ours table. On a full moon night we won’t need any more lights, even if we’re out of town. Let’s start with this and then choose the right tablecloth, flowers, plates and cutlery.
Soft lights equal play of chiaroscuro, lights and shadows, for which they are recommended mise en place with bold colors. We top it all off with trays in line with the style of the plates and glasses, on which we lay corollas of flowers is fruit, such as gerberas and cherries or peonies and strawberries.
Candlelight: every occasion is good
First let’s debunk this belief: having dinner at lumen of candle not is only for occasions romantic (those of a couple to be clear!). What is certain is that the soft light of candlelight creates an atmosphere that alone is already worth half the dinner and then one wonders why not take advantage of this opportunity to light candles and candles on every possible occasion.
We never miss a snot on our tables with the flame swinging in the breeze of a starry night and as soon as we have an occasion to celebrate or a banquet to organize, we arrange lights and candles on our tables: success is guaranteed.
Candle holder: 5 ideas for the table
It may interest you: How to set the table for Halloween: a scary chic dinner
We have gods in the house door candle and then we will use these but if we do not have them or if we have already used them and do not want to present them again, a little imagination will be enough to make one suitable for our evening.
Here are 5 ideas do it yourself, to be carried out literally or from which to take inspiration to give access to one’s creativity. Sometimes it takes so little to become an artist.
- We overturn a chalice and the base becomes our candle holder: a candle with a base wider than a candle or a tealight will do well and, to complete, the chalice will be the enchanted casket of a flower.
- We take apples, preferably large and with a flat base, and dig into the pulp on the side of the petiole so as to contain a candle or even a candle. A couple of these bright fruits will be a very glamorous decoration.
- In a low tumbler, with less square lines, put black rice about half of the depth and place a small white candle in the center. If we prefer a colored candle, white rice will be fine; we complete with a flower without a stem, which we could also recall on the table. If we have sand or even polenta flour we will match a candle in the same color with some shell, sea sponge or starfish.
- Starting from a cylindrical flower holder or square lines we create an effect lights on the water: put on the bottom of the glass marbles and some beads that remain on the base, fill the containers with water and complete with one or more floating candles from which we will have removed the aluminum part.
- A pair of glass or ceramic saucers of different diameters, with as many candles of varying height: place the largest candle in the smaller plate and the smaller one in the larger plate. We complete with some petal of the flower we prefer.
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The table in summer: lights and details
The board is large enough to hold others decorations after we have arranged plates, glasses and cutlery in addition to our stars, candles, and then other small tricks will be welcome.
We lay a flower on the napkin, the same one we used in the glasses only if we did not opt for the fruit and flower trays.
Shells is stars marine in small piles, in the center along the middle line of the table, preferably combined with candle holders with sand.
Simple candles on tall candlesticks will be well equipped with gods glasses filled with water is flowers.
An excellent ally of the twigs of basil, which when fresh will be very decorative, fragrant and will keep mosquitoes away. Put them in water in cylindrical jars or shot glasses or in floating leaves in a low tumbler.
In the gallery other proposals from which to draw inspiration for our festive summer tables.
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Candlelight to create a fairy atmosphere. How to prepare the table on a summer evening with the complicity of soft lighting? Is dining by candlelight only for romantic occasions?
L’summer that arrives brings with it the desire to enjoy being in company, sharing with our friends and flirting with our love. The sunset comes late in the evening and we are left with the desire to live again, as if we didn’t want to let the day go. What better way to enjoy the good weather and the colors of the warm season than to have dinner with friends?
We’ve been postponing an appointment with colleagues or a couple we haven’t seen since last summer for months and it’s time to invite them to dinner. Every evening in the summer is a good opportunity to spend a special evening with our love, thanks to the atmosphere of the summer lights.
The moonlight makes everything shine and we just have to turn off the lights and light the candles to experience an evening that we have prepared with attention to detail.
Read also: Valentine’s Day: romantic ideas for setting the table
The table in soft light: tips for setting up
There protagonist of a dinner in the summer is just the summer, but we want to overdo it. We focus on light suffused of candlelight and think about how to fix it on ours table. On a full moon night we won’t need any more lights, even if we’re out of town. Let’s start with this and then choose the right tablecloth, flowers, plates and cutlery.
Soft lights equal play of chiaroscuro, lights and shadows, for which they are recommended mise en place with bold colors. We top it all off with trays in line with the style of the plates and glasses, on which we lay corollas of flowers is fruit, such as gerberas and cherries or peonies and strawberries.
Candlelight: every occasion is good
First let’s debunk this belief: having dinner at lumen of candle not is only for occasions romantic (those of a couple to be clear!). What is certain is that the soft light of candlelight creates an atmosphere that alone is already worth half the dinner and then one wonders why not take advantage of this opportunity to light candles and candles on every possible occasion.
We never miss a snot on our tables with the flame swinging in the breeze of a starry night and as soon as we have an occasion to celebrate or a banquet to organize, we arrange lights and candles on our tables: success is guaranteed.
Candle holder: 5 ideas for the table
It may interest you: How to set the table for Halloween: a scary chic dinner
We have gods in the house door candle and then we will use these but if we do not have them or if we have already used them and do not want to present them again, a little imagination will be enough to make one suitable for our evening.
Here are 5 ideas do it yourself, to be carried out literally or from which to take inspiration to give access to one’s creativity. Sometimes it takes so little to become an artist.
- We overturn a chalice and the base becomes our candle holder: a candle with a base wider than a candle or a tealight will do well and, to complete, the chalice will be the enchanted casket of a flower.
- We take apples, preferably large and with a flat base, and dig into the pulp on the side of the petiole so as to contain a candle or even a candle. A couple of these bright fruits will be a very glamorous decoration.
- In a low tumbler, with less square lines, put black rice about half of the depth and place a small white candle in the center. If we prefer a colored candle, white rice will be fine; we complete with a flower without a stem, which we could also recall on the table. If we have sand or even polenta flour we will match a candle in the same color with some shell, sea sponge or starfish.
- Starting from a cylindrical flower holder or square lines we create an effect lights on the water: put on the bottom of the glass marbles and some beads that remain on the base, fill the containers with water and complete with one or more floating candles from which we will have removed the aluminum part.
- A pair of glass or ceramic saucers of different diameters, with as many candles of varying height: place the largest candle in the smaller plate and the smaller one in the larger plate. We complete with some petal of the flower we prefer.
Do you want design advice on how to furnish? Join the group
The table in summer: lights and details
The board is large enough to hold others decorations after we have arranged plates, glasses and cutlery in addition to our stars, candles, and then other small tricks will be welcome.
We lay a flower on the napkin, the same one we used in the glasses only if we did not opt for the fruit and flower trays.
Shells is stars marine in small piles, in the center along the middle line of the table, preferably combined with candle holders with sand.
Simple candles on tall candlesticks will be well equipped with gods glasses filled with water is flowers.
An excellent ally of the twigs of basil, which when fresh will be very decorative, fragrant and will keep mosquitoes away. Put them in water in cylindrical jars or shot glasses or in floating leaves in a low tumbler.
In the gallery other proposals from which to draw inspiration for our festive summer tables.
