Summer Table Setting in Gray, White, Gold – Table Setting Ideas for Screen Porch
Sometimes I’m so behind the decorating trends, that I often find myself ahead of them.
Does that make sense?
A decorating/color/craft idea comes along and I miss it. Completely. Whoosh, over my head miss it.
But then I get something in my head that I can’t shake.
Perhaps I was influenced by that trend I missed after all?
Perhaps it just takes my mind a little extra time to compute, appreciate and embrace that decorating/color/craft idea?
And when I say a little extra time, I really mean years … and even decades! 😉
Take gray, for example.
Gray has been trending since the first day I started this blog eight years ago. And was probably trending before then (though I wasn’t paying much attention). And while everyone was painting everything within reach warm gray and greige tones …
I was slathering the very cool-toned and very dark navy on my walls.
Now, I’ve finally turned the tables and am embracing gray just as …
wait for it …
navy starts trending.
For real!
Sigh.
On the plus side, navy & gray/greige do place nice together!
So am I very pathetically behind the decorating trend when I finally painted my walls gray almost a decade after everyone else?
Or was I ahead on the navy trend?
Am I decorating savant? Or perhaps I just sing to a different decorating tune? Follow my own way …
And will I regret my gray wall decision in a year or two when beige and brown (god forbid) comes back?
Hmmmm…
But as I was creating these gold paint dipped terracotta place card holders that I used in this summer table setting in gray, white, gold, I got to thinking …
is the paint dip trend still a trend?
Or has it landed on one of those evil lists that keep telling me mason jars are so not hot anymore?
And yet, here I am finally … finally … paint dipping something, just as paint dipping something is sooooooo 2015.
Maybe I can bring it back again?
And who knows? Next week this not-so-trend-setting-trend-setter might just be back here with a coffee filter wreath tutorial. 😉
I never made one of those, so I’m only about 10 years behind on that decorating trend! 🙂
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Following trends can be a recipe for disaster and a money pit. Sure it’s nice to be inspired by them, but only when we need to bring the look in our head together. You follow your own sense of style, which makes you a decor master. Be proud. ps mason jars are out of fashion? NO! Never! LOL
Truer words have never been spoken! And every year for like the past 5 years all the “trends” forecasters at the start of the year trash talk masons! Seriously, they need to stop!!! LOL!
Oh my gosh, We are kindred spirits regarding late to the table with trends. At least by the time we get to it, we it’s tried and true! Everything in moderation! Even trends! Looks great by the way!
What a pretty summer table setting! I am happy to feature you today at TFT. Thanks so much for sharing with us! https://followtheyellowbrickhome.com/celebrating-late-summer-at-thursday-favorite-things/
Thank you so much for the feature! I’ll be sure to stop by! 🙂 Linda
Such a simple setting, but so crisp and fresh. Love the little pops from the terracotta. I have chosen it as one of my features at this week’s Snickerdoodle Create Bake Make Party, which goes live today (Saturday) at 5pm EST.
Alexandra
EyeLoveKnots.com
Thank you so much for the feature! So exciting!!! I’ll be sure to stop by (I’ve been out of town this past weekend). 🙂