Easy rustic place settings - Arts, Crafts and DIY

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A rustic way to make your table look might fancy for a dinner party. You can re-cycle hessian bags too and use whatever flowers are in season. Great for a garden party, christmas or just a birthday – change the colours to suit the event!

Material

some hessian cloth / rustic linen
a reel of twine
sprigs of lavender/branches or cute flowers
1 can orange spray paint
vintage cutlery

Method

Cut your hessian / cloth down to napkin size.
fold over to look like picture above and rest cutlery on top to hold.
lay out your flowers on the newspaper and spray with the orange paint (do this outside or in a well ventilated area - if outside watch the wind isn't blowing towards anyones washing house or car :)
once dry - turn and spray the other side.
Now lay the sprigs of flowers on the hessian next to the cutlery and tie up with twine to finish.

Notes

Gold looks great at christmas, mixed up pastel tones look good for a baby shower. You can spray anything - I once did gold grapes for each setting - looked ace - but now the toddled would try and eat them so flowers are safe!

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- hazel
- 18 Feb 2014
  3:16 pm

75 Comments

- - Frankiielot said
  - 30 Jul 2023
    8:57 pm
Wow, that looks great and the orange flowers are such a nice touch!

- - mom19782016 said
  - 17 Oct 2020
    8:36 pm
Very beautiful, I think they look great

- - mom81879 said
  - 10 Oct 2019
    5:54 pm
I can’t really picture and event where I would use these, but they do look fantastic

- - mom152736 said
  - 14 Aug 2019
    3:11 pm
Rustics look great. love the fact you could reuse them.

- - kjgarner said
  - 19 Jun 2018
    8:15 pm
Recycling is always fun and you get to creative awesome things

- - mom112217 said
  - 25 Mar 2017
    9:58 am
I love your rustic place settings,they look fab!

- - mom111059 said
  - 22 Aug 2016
    3:56 pm
Looks so good. Thank you for sharing a great idea.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 02 Feb 2016
    12:55 pm
Lovely idea and so versatile – you could use these for any occasion.

- - mom109229 said
  - 30 Sep 2015
    10:39 am
This is a great idea. I might do a set for my sister!
- mom94125 replied
  
  07 Oct 2015 , 1:52 am
  oh that would make a great gift for sure. lovely thought
- - dannsbuild said
  - 21 Sep 2015
    8:33 pm
What a great idea! Thanks for sharing this!

- - mom70050 said
  - 15 Jun 2015
    8:45 am
Currently on the look out for some old sacking etc in Sydney for similar projects. Thanks for sharing this one.

- - mom93821 said
  - 25 Nov 2014
    10:47 am
Thanks for sharing this creative idea; looks good.
- mom93821 replied
  
  25 Feb 2017 , 7:54 am
  A gorgeous setting for a romantic outdoor picnic.
- - jabelle said
  - 30 Oct 2014
    12:31 pm
Rustic always seams to work and can really be very inexpensive.

- - jabelle said
  - 19 Oct 2014
    10:52 pm
I would never have thought to spray paint the flowers! Great idea for a wedding, could match in with any wedding colour!

- - shortaez said
  - 15 Oct 2014
    12:23 pm
Rustic place setting is perfect for a bbq

- - mom94125 said
  - 07 Oct 2014
    5:48 pm
this is a pretty good idea! it looks simple enough

- - mom57522 said
  - 05 Oct 2014
    6:12 pm
Thinking of doing this for Christmas using a sprig of holly.
- kjgarner replied
  
  20 Jun 2018 , 1:49 pm
  Holly sounds great try no to get prickled by it though
- - kazh said
  - 28 Aug 2014
    2:07 pm
Just add a bowl of hearty soup and some fresh baked bread for a perfect winter meal.

- - ginoula5 said
  - 04 Aug 2014
    11:38 am
love the whole rustic look, this looks amazing

- - mom70050 said
  - 21 Jul 2014
    9:34 am
Love this idea! Cannot wait for our next dinner party that I can theme to this