A Red Barn Raising Fall Tablescape
I love old barns and I especially love old red barns. I drove across the country and back several times over the years and I also took the train back and forth a few times too. I love road trips and riding trains and I don’t fly. (We are getting ready for another road trip across the country and back again.) I would always be fascinated by all the wonderful old barns I saw along the way as we traveled. This tablescape is a tribute to all of them. I posted a red barn tablescape four years ago and then I reposted it two years ago but I decided to post it again with some changes. I have had this green tablecloth for several years, I bought it on Amazon. I love this color for a Fall tablecloth or for Thanksgiving. It is a green tweed color and it is perfect for the Fall season. I used it on one of my Thanksgiving tablescapes some years ago. You can see all of my 270+ tablescapes on my blog, I post a new one every week. They are here: https://www.whispersoftheheart.com/tablescapes
I had seen these red barn plates several times over the years and when I started looking for barn salad plates, they popped up and I knew I wanted to develop a tablescape around them. I bought four of them at Mercari online and three more at Replacements, Ltd. online several years ago. They sometimes turn up on Ebay too. The designs were copyrighted in 1998 by Warren Kimble for Sakura, New York and the series was called Barns. These salad plates were made between 1998 and 2002 and there were four different barns in the series.
This green stoneware dinner plate came from Pier 1 several years ago. It was part of their Spice Route series and each color was named after a different spice. This color was called Clove. I love this plate for Fall and Thanksgiving tablescapes and if you read my blog you will see it often during those times of the year. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying dinner plates here.
I bought this Balsa Circle Rustic Brown acrylic charger on Amazon a few years ago. It got lost in the stacks for a while and I didn’t have a photo of it in my inventory but we reorganized a bit and I found it again so this is the first time that I have used it on a tablescape.
This dark red flatware set was made by D & D Inox in Italy and the pattern is called Roma. I bought them at Neiman Marcus or Bloomingdales during a major sale several years ago with a few other colors as well. There are similar designs available online now. I really like the marbleized design on the handles. You can read my blog post about what to consider when you are buying flatware here.
These barn napkins were made by a seller on Etsy who made napkin sets for me several times. I love all the different barns that are shown and I see an outhouse too! These metal red barn napkin rings were a challenge. I ordered them from one place online and they were suddenly on back order. Then I ordered them from another place online and suddenly they were on back order there too. I finally found them at Walmart online a few years ago and I bought them there. To read about the what, where and how of napkin rings please click here.
These red barn place card holders are actually bird house red barn ornaments. I sometimes use ornaments as place card holders. I set them on a small square metal place card holder that I have. I think that I found the ornaments at Michaels a few years ago. To read about the What, Where and When of place card holders, please click here.
I usually set two different goblets on my tablescapes but I decided to use the same goblet on this table because I have twelve of these goblets. When I started tablescaping I bought goblets in sets of twelve but storage space became an issue after a while so I started buying sets of six or eight goblets instead. These dark red goblets were made by Cristal D’Arques-Durand and the pattern was called Antique Ruby. They are a pressed glass diamond and fan pattern. I think I bought them years ago a few at a time on Ebay until I had a set. They were made between 1990 and 2008.
I looked for a long time for a red barn cookie jar and I finally bought this one online at Country Village Shoppe a few years ago. It needed more height so it is sitting on a wood stand that came from Michael’s a few years ago. The cookie jar was made by Park Designs and it’s called Life on the Farm, copyrighted by Billy Jacob.
I added a red barn salt and pepper set to the table from Amazon.
I suddenly remembered this red barn that I received as a gift several years ago and I added it to the tablescape. It was part of Jim Shore’s Heartwood Creek collection and it was called Red Barn, Strength And Plenty. He copyrighted the design in 2004 and it was licensed by Enesco.
We are planning another driving trip across the country soon, more barns to see!
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