Dress up your table this summer with this sweet lemon tablescape. This is a simple tablescape that you could leave up for a refreshing splash of color to brighten your day!

I am continuing on the lemon theme this week with this adorable lemon summer tablescape. I love decorating tablescapes, especially when they are practical ones that I can leave up for a while to make the table look pretty. 🙂

This tablescape was inspired by these green plates that I borrowed from a friend, thanks again Betsy! 🙂 She had some vintage dishes that I borrowed for a lovely Easter tablescape a couple years ago and last year she let me borrow a couple more vintage sets. 

With our move, I didn’t have time to post the tablespaces that I decorated last summer. I thought this would be the perfect time to share this lemon summer tablescape since I was decorating with lemons last week. I will be sharing the other tablescape a little later this summer.

When I saw the green plates, I knew it would be a little more difficult to use them since they were a bold color, but I was up to the challenge! I had another idea to do a cute tropical theme with pink and orange but the lemons won out as I already had some of the other things I needed. #practicalitywinsoutagain

One of those things were these gold silverware! I had gotten this set for Christmas and had not used them yet, so I was itching to do that. I knew they would go well with the lemons.

Speaking of the lemons, they are just faux lemons. You could use real ones as well, but the faux ones last a lot longer. I created this centerpiece using our DIY dough bowl and filling it with a mix of some faux and real greenery and the lemons.

Since the lemons and most of the greenery was faux, I was able to leave the centerpiece up all summer. Even when the plates and glasses came down. 😉

I decided to use black and white neutrals for the rest of the tablescape since the green plates and lemons were such bold colors. I love the color combination, don’t you?

Here is an easy hack for you, if you don’t have a table runner, just use a tablecloth and fold it into thirds lengthwise. That is exactly what I did here as I already had a houndstooth tablecloth but did not have a runner. Houndstooth just makes everything look better, amirite?

I used my trusty ice tea glasses as I am not much of a wine drinker. I don’t even own wine glasses anymore. We got some for our wedding and only used them once in probably 10 years. So I decided to sell them on a garage sale. 

However, I love iced tea so these glasses are perfect! On the tea front, are you a sweet or unsweet tea person? I came from the Midwest so I am in the unsweet club. We recently moved to Florida, man do they love their sweet tea down here! Insert puking emoji here. LOL #Sorrynotsorry to all you Southerners! 😉

What do you think of the tablescape, would you use green plates? I would love to get my hands on the plates again to create the other tablescape I had in mind, but sadly that won’t be happening since we moved away. Maybe I will have to scour some garage sales down here.

I will be back later this week, all of these lemons are making me crave something sweet, how about you? Have a wonderful day!