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This is the last-minute table decoration that will save your Christmas

30 minutes to a fabulous festive centrepiece. - by Dora Papas
  • 18 Dec 2018
This is the last-minute table decoration that will save your Christmas

You’ve thought of everything for the big day: presents bought, menu planned, and drinks sorted. Everything except... the table centrepiece. No need to panic, the solution can be found in your cupboards and in the garden.

You will need:

  • Greenery
  • Pillar candleholder
  • Two everyday bowls (large and medium size) 
Sprig of pine
Bowls and candlestick

How to creative your festive centrepiece

1. Centre the candleholder in the large bowl, securing it with mounting putty such as Blu-Tack.

2. Arrange pre-soaked green floral foam around the candleholder. Then, working your way around the bowl, poke greenery such as conifer sprigs and a variety of ferns into the foam. Start with greenery around the circumference of the bowl, allowing it to spill over the edge, then fill inwards toward the candleholder.

3. Fill gaps, here and there, with pine and leucadendron cones plus artificial berries. These fillers act as accents.

4. Cut floral foam to fit inside the medium bowl then fill it with greenery and accents as before, aiming for a very slight dome-shaped arrangement. Centre the bowl onto the candleholder with mounting putty. Once

Floral two tiered table centrepiece

This arrangement is so versatile, you can recreate it for any occasion, adding your favourite flowers. Try blooms such as carnations, roses and ranunculus.

Simple and so effective!

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Dora Papas
Dora Papas
Dora is the deputy editor and the decorating editor of Better Homes and Gardens. An experienced and passionate decorator and maker, she loves any kind of makeover from an entire home right through to simply rearranging furniture or creating gorgeous vignettes. Homewares shopkeepers know her by name!

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