Decorate your Christmas table with glamorous purple and plum

Create an opulent look with purple and other rich, jewel-like colours

Mix purple with pinks to give your table a sumptuous feel. Choose purple napkins, and use a large fabric flower as a napkin ring, which guests can take home at the end of the evening.

Add some sparkle by placing a large purple-glass bauble on each napkin. Or use different materials, such as purple velvet ribbon and lengths of ivy, to tie around napkins. Alternate them around the table. For a rich look, decorate place settings with a vibrant bauble and foil-wrapped mini chocolates.

Use amethyst and ruby glassware and tie pink, green and purple ribbons to a chandelier's arms and drape over the table. Thread the ends through bauble loops and rest between place settings. And don't forget to add a warm touch at each table setting with tealights in red etched-glass votives.

Another advantage of this rich dark look is that it lends itself to a number of centrepieces. You can place a pillar candle at the centre of a glass cake stand, for example, then surround it with pine cones, fabric flowers and faux purple berries.

If you prefer a floral arrangement, mix three hydrangea heads with sprigs of white berries in a metallic vase, then decorate with wide pink ribbon and a thin strip of plum-coloured ribbon. For a really striking centrepiece, fill a shallow vase two-thirds full of water, then add a couple of open deep pink or purple Oriental lily heads with the stems cut off.

Get the look -

Chandelier
Bhs

Ribbon
The Ribbon Shop

Baubles
John Lewis


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