15 Ways to Use Wooden Serving Pieces to Decorate Your Kitchen or Dining Room
Wooden serving pieces are a versatile and timeless addition to any kitchen or dining room. But we also love to decorate with them! With the right wooden decor ideas, you can discover creative ways to add depth, texture, and beauty to multiple living spaces.
Solange & Frances offers beautiful palm wood trays, plates and coasters that can be used to adorn your kitchen or dining room. Our pieces are handcrafted from the wood of the Areca palm tree, which is native to Indonesia. The palm wood is dark and moody yet lightweight and durable. Its unique grain pattern will add character to any space. You can use our pieces as plates or trays, to hold fruit, nuts, or other small items, or you can display them on their own as decorative elements. The bold color of the palm wood really brings a natural element into your home and helps ground any space. When it comes to caring for Solange & Frances palm wood pieces, we recommend hand washing them with warm water and mild soap. It’s also best to avoid soaking them for long periods of time. With proper care, our palm wood can last for years and add a touch of natural beauty to your home.
Here are 15 ideas on how to use natural wood serving pieces to decorate your kitchen or dining room:
- Use a wooden tray as a centerpiece on your dining or coffee table.
- Fill a wooden tray with fresh fruit, such as apples or oranges.
- Use a wooden tray to hold seasonal vegetables, such as pumpkins or gourds.
- Create a fresh floral arrangement in a wooden bowl.
- Fill a wooden tray with pinecones or acorns for a rustic touch.
- Use a wooden tray to hold candles for a cozy atmosphere.
- Plant small succulents or air plants in a wooden bowl.
- Use a wooden tray to display seashells or beach-themed decor.
- Use a wooden tray to hold hand soap and lotion.
- Display a collection of vintage or antique items on a wooden tray.
- Use a wooden tray to hold decorative balls or orbs.
- Plant a small herb garden in a wooden bowl.
- Use wine corks or bottle caps to fill a wooden bowl.
- Fill a wooden serving dish with candy, nuts or other snacks.
- Use wooden coasters to add depth and texture to a light colored space.
What are your favorite ways to use wooden serving pieces as decor for your home?
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149 comments
These palm trays are absolutely beautiful! They take my breath away.
Kyla sibbett
I love to paint them and hang them next to other paintings.
Sofia Rodriguez
Wooden plates in the bathroom is such a nice accent.
Noah B
Wow I love everything!!
Beth Carr
I do not have any wooden serving dishes and would love to have some. They look so amazing love to use one too.
Laurie Nykaza
I love these ideas! Excited to try some of them!
Sarah
We use wooden serving pieces to store all of the tech clutter like remotes and video game controllers.
Jessie Morrow
I have some great wood candle holders
Cheryl
Accent pieces on the table. Like a bowl of fruit.
Billie Williams
I would use these as accent pieces, place trinkets on them or use them to serve some delicious appetizers. I love the earthy & rustic look!
Tamara Bennington
I would use these as catch-all trays.
Kelly M.
I like to put shells, pinecones, flowers, rocks, fruit, olives, cheese, salami, crackers there is so many beautiful way to bring beauty to the table with a wooden tray or bowl.
Debbie DuBois
I use them to display my colorful balls of yarn in my decor, or to store my favorite pine cones that I have collected through the years.
Sandra L McFadden
Special rocks and stones would look great on wooden serving pieces.
Kristi Fairfield
I like to have plants in them.
Kayla Doan
I use a large wooden bowl for fruit and a smaller ones for a catch-alls by the front and back doors!
Melinda Barlow
Wooden bowls provide the perfect base for decorative items around the house. They’re perfect for fruit displays or ornaments of all sorts.
Gaye Mcgill
I use wood bowls for serving salads and to display natural decorative items.
Cynthia C
fill with fruit
bn100
I like to put pine cones in them at Christmas time.
Rebecca Graham
I like to fill it with seasonal items like shells, ornaments, or guords.
Christi
I like to use them in place of a cheese board and to place scented sticks and dried flowers on
Linda Richards
I have always used wooden bowls for 1-tossed salads and 2-for fruit. And I’ve used wooden slabs for charcuterie/hors d’oeuvres. I can envision using your lovely smaller palm wood plates as bread plates for individual diners.
Cynthia L. Stern
The palm wood trays make ordinary food look extraordinary.
Phyllis Skoglund
I love to have them on a sideboard. Lovely!
Lisa Herndon
we have a set of multi color spoons we display.
Peggy Rydzewski
I use little bowls to hold small things like jewelry or paper notes.
Sara J.
True quality in art
Leslie Dlugokecki
Your pieces are gorgeous!! I love the ideas. My favorites are the coasters, and using a bowl for fruit, and as a centerpiece for my coffee table.
juliie moon
We use them all around our home, they make great places to display flowers, ornaments, and even fresh fruits!
Chad Boyd
I use wooden bowls to hold fresh fruit!
Andrea P.
These are really nice. Love the idea of olives. These would look nice with small collections of pretty stones and shells.
Gina O
As a centerpiece
Margaret Smith
I like to use them as wall hangings
paige chandler
fruit bowls
Lisa Davis
They work great as a centerpiece on my table in my dining room.
Hesper Fry
The wood items are very pretty and seem like high quality
maria walkins
I’d give them to my Dad for Father’s Day.
Kammi Koza
I love using these wooden pieces in my living room.
Natalie Krall
Love to win
Kathy Wallace
Your bowls are lovely. I would use them for seasonal vegetables and lemon and limes. I would also use them for polished stone and crystals.
Brenda Williamson
These are all beautiful 😍 I love the idea of using them for seasonal vegetables and decor!
Kristen Jammel
I love to use them to display combinations of candles, crystals, stones, pine cones, berries, nuts. sea shells and other natural found items.
Erin Walsh
I love using the wooden pieces for displaying candles and unique items I’ve found
Marie T Reyes
I use them as centerpieces on my tables in the dining room and the coffee table 🌿
Rebecca Bishop Parsons
I love to put a long wooden tray on my center island in the kitchen and keep fresh fruit init.
Rosemary
I like to put pine cones on a wooden platter or in a wooden bowl. A little nature inside is calming and rustic.
Deborah Stinson
I have a kitchen that is bright white and black .
Using wood accents has really helped give it a warmer & lighter feel.
Susan Vann-Spruill
We have a huge wood bowl that holds fruit on our kitchen table :)
Kobi Carpenter
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