70 Merry + Bright Christmas Centerpiece Ideas

Entertain in style this season with a festive centerpiece for your holiday table.

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Holiday Table Centerpiece Ideas

A holiday table spread wouldn't be complete without a cheerful centerpiece in the middle. Paired with the perfect Christmas table setting, your table will shine bright without breaking the bank. From beautiful fresh flower arrangements to easy DIY ideas that you can leave up all season long, these holiday centerpieces range in style from traditional to farmhouse to glam and everything in between.

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Boxwood Beauty

A single garland of preserved boxwood studded with pine sprigs creates a casual, low arrangement when placed down the length of the table. Scatter a few loose red ornaments and gold votive holders throughout to produce a classic Christmas feel.

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Energize With Color

Our new favorite trend? Decorating with unexpected colors for Christmas. Display all the hues of the rainbow (or stick to just a few fun colors) with vibrant bottle brush trees lined down the center of the table. Choose different heights from tall to tiny for added dimension and visual interest.

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Mix & Match

Faux evergreen garland is wrapped in holiday lights and placed in the center of this holiday table. Four-armed gold candlesticks are paired with white candles to add a touch of glam while still keeping the table neutral.

Woodsy Wonderland

Maximize your centerpiece's impact by spreading the flowers and greenery among multiple vases. But, don't worry, more centerpieces don't have to mean more $$$. Large blooms like chrysanthemums and dahlias provide a lot of impact with just a few stems. Fill in with greenery, either from your backyard or local grocery or florist, and finish with a few berry stems and bare branches.

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Decorate With Dessert

Crafting an eye-catching dessert can be time-consuming. Show off your hard work by displaying dessert on the table for all to see. This birch log looks fresh from the forest but is actually a delicious cake. Made using white chocolate candy bark that covers a soft, delectable pumpkin roll, it's covered with candy-coated mushrooms and rests on a mossy bed of ground pistachios.

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DIY Candle Ring Centerpiece

Got a past-its-prime Bundt or tube cake pan taking up space in your cabinet? In just a few steps, you can upcycle it into a cheery Christmas centerpiece to brighten up your holiday table all season long.

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Go Foraging

Sometimes it pays (and saves) to look to the backyard for fresh greenery. Here, fragrant evergreen snippings are arranged to overflow from the vase in an effortless and organic fashion. Baubles are placed on the sturdiest branches and petite presents sit at the arrangement’s base to polish off the display.

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Home Sweet Home

This inviting tablescape is made extra-cozy thanks to yarn-wrapped trees and the warm glow of candles. Vintage starburst candle holders add an eye-catching twist, while green tree figurines bring a classic Christmas touch to the table.

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Classic Christmas

Bring the joy and love that classic red roses symbolize to your holiday table with a beautifully arranged centerpiece featuring the bloom. Available year-round at floral shops and grocery stores, red roses pair perfectly with evergreen cuttings, such as cedar and pine, in seasonal arrangements.

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Light It Up

Few things give a meal a special-occasion feel quite like candlelight from tall tapers. And, as a bonus, inexpensive tapers are easy to find in a wide variety of sizes and colors at dollar stores and big-box retailers. So this year, really set your table aglow with a grouping of candles at the center of your table. Worried about the flames? No problem, just sub flameless, battery-operated tapers, as we have, for the real deal. For a festive finishing touch, learn how to craft our easy taper candle rings, below.

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Gingerbread (Farm)House

Embrace one of the season's most-loved traditions by crafting a gingerbread house with the family and display it as a centerpiece. Here, the classic boxed house is given a farmhouse makeover thanks to almond slices, gum sticks, pretzels and rosemary.

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Keep It Casual

Silver candle holders topped with red pillar candles, white vases brimming with fresh flowers and an array of delicious desserts create a beautifully layered display on this holiday table. Because the plaid dining chairs and artwork already make a statement in the space, a casual centerpiece spread complements the design instead of overwhelming it.

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Get Creative With Clippings

To craft a beautiful, inexpensive centerpiece to brighten up any holiday get-together, use fresh pine cuttings to decorate dollar store candle holders or hurricanes. To create them, clip sprigs of natural pine greenery to a length not taller than a glass vase of your choice. Attach greenery around the outside of the container with hot glue, being sure to tack down the edges of long pieces so the greenery lies flat against the glass. Add a final flourish or colorful ribbon, then add a pillar or taper candle to the center of the vase, securing its base with hot glue, if necessary.

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Pretty Poinsettias

Poinsettias are the quintessential flower for the winter holidays. Instead of grabbing a few potted plants to pop around the house, try using them as cut flowers. Not only will they last for days in a vase, but they also come in a variety of colors.

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Colorful Addition

In a time crunch? This simple and quick centerpiece is just the solution. Glass cylinder vases in various heights are filled with colorful ornaments to add festive flair without the hassle.

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Create a Living Centerpiece

Proud of your green thumb? Show it off by repurposing some of your prettiest plants as a living centerpiece. Here, we mixed potted anthurium and a pair of 'Fluffy Ruffle' ferns with small flower-filled vases to fill the center of the table with color and foliage.

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Seasonally Simple

Dress up your tabletop surface with an arrangement that looks just like mistletoe. Combine stems of hypericum berries with sprigs and branches of pine. The arrangement will last from 1 to 2 weeks if the water is changed regularly and the stems are cut at an angle every few days. Vintage Thermos-style containers are easy to source at thrift stores or yard sales and make festive containers.

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Make an Edible Centerpiece for Kids

Kids will love having their very own colorful holiday party table where it’s easy to stay entertained. Our sweets-inspired table decor is easy to craft and little helpers will love to assist. Create some holiday baking memories with our retro-inspired Christmas bulb ornament cookies. They decorate a tabletop tree centerpiece and can be removed for munching during the party.

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Festive Hues

Classic Christmas colors of red, white and green are on full display in this holiday-themed flower arrangement. Red roses, white chrysanthemums and red hypericum berries pair with evergreens and eucalyptus to create an eye-catching display perfect for a holiday table.

Get Crafty

Give craft-store foam topiaries of all sizes a cozy, Christmasy makeover by wrapping them in chunky yarn. Pair them with ceramic trees and bright-white taper candles for a warm and inviting addition to the middle of the table.

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Show Off Your Santas

Got a favorite holiday hand-me-down? Show them off! Group a Christmas collection, like these vintage salt-glazed Santas, at the center of your table as a fun reminder of past Christmases or to spark a lively table discussion.

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Add Height With Cake Stands

Think beyond cakes and bundts and use decorative serving pieces such as pedestals and cake stands to add height to a centerpiece or buffet arrangement. Place greenery, pinecones, seasonal fruit or nuts and candles on top.

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Grab a Pitcher

A distressed ceramic pitcher serves as a vessel for red hypericum berries and silver dollar eucalyptus on this breakfast nook holiday table. Berry stems are a great way to quickly add seasonal flair to any table or space.

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Stack Some Sweets

The perfect combo of bite-sized and colorful, macarons are a pretty, petite treat to stack on a footed server within easy reach of hungry guests. They're also available in a range of pastel shades, so if pink isn't your pick, just select macarons in your color of choice.

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From: H. Camille Smith

Frosty the Snowman

Frosty's here! Bring a whimsical touch to your holiday tablescape with a cheerful and fun snowman made from white carnations and playful embellishments. Our step-by-step instructions, below, show you how.

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Mix Modern With Traditional

This tablescape from Waiting on Martha features stackable green and clear glass Christmas trees, assorted red glassware, holiday-themed bowls and other table essentials. While the table is decorated in traditional Christmas colors, it's updated with a contemporary wooden candelabra holding tan candles to anchor the display.

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Oh, (Tiny) Christmas Tree

Create a tiny holiday tree by filling a teacup with floral foam and insert boxwood clippings to form the shape. Line the table with your tiny creations or style them on a silver tray with pinecones and loose greenery.

Add a Familiar Face

Most likely from the '60s or '70s, this sweet wee Santa started life as a Christmas tree ornament but, along with a few mini vintage glass baubles, the jolly old elf adds a playful bit of decoration. Adding a vintage ornament to the table like this allows you to showcase sentimental, hand-me-down decorations that might get visually lost on the tree.

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Top Plates With Mini Centerpieces

In just a few steps, you can turn dollar-store, shatterproof ornaments into mini vases to brighten up your holiday table. Add a handwritten tag so the arrangements also serve as place cards, then send them home with guests as a blooming favor.

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Contrast Colors

Birch bark-covered containers, filled with green ball dianthus, rich red flowers and fresh evergreens, add an elegant-yet-woodsy touch to this holiday table. Create your own woodland vases by covering coffee cans with pieces of birch bark, or even birch-printed scrapbook paper if real birch bark is not available.

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Work In Sleigh Bells

Antique sleigh bells' shine and festive ring make them a natural holiday accessory. Tuck them into greenery arrangements with pinecones and candles for an easy centerpiece. Many modern reproductions exist, but to find vintage or antique versions, search local antique stores or reputable online auction sites.

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From: Marian Parsons

Winter White

Decorated solely in shades of white, designer Camille Styles uses the tone-on-tone style in this dining room to create a holiday soiree that blends timeless elegance with a wintry aesthetic. The key to creating an all-white tablescape that's not flat or sterile is to layer different shades along with a mix of textures and metallic accents.

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Sailing Away

This colorful dining room takes a cue from the home's New England setting. Model sailboats draped with delicate red bunting take center stage on the dining table, creating an eye-catching display that coordinates with the home's everyday and holiday color scheme. Wrapped packages in red, white and blue flank the centerpiece for a festive addition.

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Edible Arrangement

You worked hard on those desserts (or you worked hard on picking them up from the store). Show them off by making your cakes, pies or cookies the centerpiece of your dining table. Complete the look with sprigs of natural greenery for added holiday cheer.

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Wow With Greenery Garland

Greenery garland is your best friend when it comes to a quick and easy centerpiece option. This elaborate garland/table runner was made with pine and cedar tree clippings and secured together with wire. For additional organic texture, pine cones were added throughout.

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From: Brian Patrick Flynn

Make Candy Cones With the Kids

These trees can be made by adults well ahead of party time, but with grown-up or older kid supervision, the littles can get their creativity on, too. Card stock from the scrapbooking aisle at craft stores is easy to roll into cones and tape or glue together. Hot-glue pieces of colorful candy on for a jeweled effect. Mini swirl lollipop toppers are the perfect finishing touch. Just insert the stick into the top of the cone.

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A Rustic Twist

Contrast a neutral palette of cream and white with pops of dark cypress greenery to add a festive touch that's distinctly seasonal. To bring an unexpected rustic touch to the table, lay out a burlap runner as the base and incorporate faux antlers throughout.

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Dreaming of a Colorful Christmas

Red and green, who? Bright, colorful bottle brush trees, tall candles and decorative reindeer combine with vibrant place settings to energize this dining room. The use of color in this space adds a modern twist while staying holiday-ready.

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Pattern Play

Merry and bright, designer Nicole Botsman's dining table is packed full of playful patterns and dashes of color thanks to five modern chipboard tree decorations and a graphic black and white table runner.

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Versatile Holiday Wreath

Wreaths aren't just for the front door anymore. Place a cake stand topped with candles, oranges and cranberries in the center of a wreath for a quick and easy table display.

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From: Marian Parsons

Prints Galore

Plaid and gingham and polka dots, oh my! Aniko Levai of Place of My Taste cleverly mixed fabric scraps and inexpensive wrapping paper to create this fun and festive table decor. Leftover fabric covers the tablescape's conical "trees," dots the pinecone and greenery centerpiece, ties cardboard reindeers around vintage glass bottles and finishes off the place settings.

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Bright White Glow

If you're dreaming of a white Christmas, then this luxe, snowy tablescape is for you. A plethora of wintry-white bottle brush trees and pale green eucalyptus sit atop a wooden tray to create a dash of holiday whimsy.

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Bring the Beach to Christmas

Breezy fabrics, woven textures and seashells work surprisingly well with evergreens, mercury glass and elegant china. With seashells available in craft stores year-round, you don't have to live by the seaside to use beach-inspired decor when the holidays roll around.

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From: Marian Parsons

Infuse Metallic Hues

Although traditional Christmas colors are excellent for infusing seasonal flair into a space quickly, they can often be overwhelming on a tablescape. Instead of color, try a metallic approach by constructing a table made of sparkling silver and gorgeous gold.

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From: Brian Patrick Flynn

Farmhouse Feels

This modern farmhouse dining table is decked out for Christmas dinner with a frosted tree centerpiece, snowflake place cards and a black and white striped runner. The wooden, x-back dining chairs are gussied up for guests with a mini pine wreath wrapped in a perky burlap bow.

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Cozy Casual

Casual and collected, a mix of wooden and matte black candlesticks illuminate and deliver warmth to this rustic tablescape, with an ornament-adorned branch standing tall in the middle. Teeny tiny trees in shades of navy, cream and gold, as well as ceramic deer, are sprinkled throughout the display.

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Outdoor Sparkle

This sunny spot is ready for seasonal celebrations with a flocked pine needle garland and clear containers filled to the brim with gold and silver ornaments. As the sun goes down, the centerpiece will catch the light of the flickering candles, creating a gleaming display.

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Get High (and Low)

One secret to designing an eye-catching tablescape: varying the heights of your food and decor. Here, pillar candles cluster on a pedestal stand to create an instant focal point, plates and bowls are stacked for greater interest and greenery rises from a glass vase and also snakes along the surface of the table.

From: Brian Patrick Flynn

Cute Creatures

Often referred to as Kunstlerschutz, vintage German flocked animals are a sweet addition to holiday vignettes. Also frequently known by the name of their most famous maker, Wagner Handwork, the handmade flocked creatures from the 1940s, '50s and '60s can be hard to find in good condition. Created initially as kids' toys, the tiny animals were often played with, resulting in broken legs or rubbed-off areas of flocking but, even with some damage, their charm is undeniable.

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From: H. Camille Smith

Rustic Delight

Welcome guests to your table with a fresh, organic approach to holiday styling. This charming, neutral tablescape is anchored with three ivory table runners, styled horizontally across the table. To add height and more texture, cozy wool Christmas trees are arranged among fresh cypress stems and decorative reindeer for an eye-catching display.

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From: Jenny Reimold

Deck the Chandelier

Don't stop at decking the halls. Deck the area around your dining table, too. Here, designer Kim Stoegbauer fills the Scandi-style chandelier above her holiday table with faux greenery to keep the festive fun going.

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Illuminate the Night

Pewter candlesticks with pretty-in-red candles stand tall and deliver a soft glow to this outdoor seating area. Flocked holiday greenery wraps around the base of the candles to create visual interest and seasonal flair.

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Rich With Warmth

Set the tone for an intimate and cozy Christmas dinner by lining the dining table with warm-hued pillar candles of varying heights. Here, battery-operated candles are set inside a long wooden crate for added warmth and texture.

Display a Collection

Whether you love your collection of gnomes, nutcrackers or sleigh bells, group them all together for an impressive vignette. Use pedestals, cake plates and boxes to vary the height to concoct a more interesting showing.

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Let Nature Inspire You

When choosing table decor, consider repeating details of the natural surroundings. Here, vertical glass candlesticks reference the towering trees beyond, as well as the wintery gleam of icicles. Below, evergreen boughs add softness to the tabletop.

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Shine Bright

Mercury glass cylinder vases in varying sizes shine in the middle of this glam holiday table. Fresh evergreens and a silver runner help keep this set-up subtle yet brimming with style.

Dark and Moody

Turn up the drama for your next holiday soiree with a mix of dark hues, rich textures and metallic accents. A vase full of blue thistle centers this eye-catching tablescape while a trio of modern trees sits below to tie the look together.

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Sleigh All Day

Add height to your outdoor seasonal display by repurposing a vintage sled as a food riser or centerpiece. Here, a wooden sled adds a fun mix of texture with its metal base and wooden slats while fresh evergreens and pinecones bring a hint of the holidays.

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Keep It Fresh

Living centerpieces are a great choice for an outdoor tablescape, blending in seamlessly with their surroundings. Wrap the base of a baby tree in basic burlap or go for something more glam with shimmery gold or silver fabric. After the holidays are over, plant your decor where you will enjoy it for years to come.

From: Brian Patrick Flynn

Seasonal Blooms

Brighten up your space with bold pops of red and green using a mixture of cut ranunculus stems and branches of juniper and cedar. The slight variation in green coloring will add depth to the finished look and rough texture against the pretty, soft shape of the ranunculus.

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Beauty on a Budget

Creating a show-stopping holiday table doesn't have to cost a fortune. The key is using what you already have on hand, from wrapping paper to peppermint sticks. Use apothecary jars to hold leftover garland, walnuts or jingle bells, then style them on the table with ribbon, candles and your usual decor.

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Simple + Neutral

Dough bowls, elegant trays or even a cutting board are great to use in styling a table centerpiece. Starting with the shades of the cutting board, this tone-on-tone display came to life. Candles in varying heights and a little herd of deer complete the look.

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Loose Greenery

While you're at the grocery store buying ingredients for the big dinner, browse through the floral department for greenery bunches to decorate the table. Here, loose stems of eucalyptus varieties and evergreens sit atop a copper tray accented with glass topiaries and pomegranates.

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Light the Night

Nothing says holiday cheer quite like the warm glow of a candle. Capture that cozy charm with a show-stopping log centerpiece that will easily transform your holiday table.

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Add a Table Runner

Add a frosty touch to your holiday table with this easy-to-create felt snowflake table runner the kids will love to help make. Accessorize the runner with your favorite tabletop decor such as the rustic, winter-themed display seen here.

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More Is Merrier

Combine several small arrangements to dress up a holiday buffet table. Here, mercury glass-footed bowls are filled with silver and gold ornaments, while tall ceramic vases filled with red roses add height and a colorful accent to the space.

Topped With a Bow

Impress your holiday dinner guests with an eye-catching, nature-inspired gift box centerpiece. Because it's taller than it is wide, you'll have plenty of room for a large, festive feast on the table around it.

Get the How-To: How to Create a Gift Box Centerpiece

Last-Minute Touches

Create a last-minute centerpiece by layering items you already have around the house. A decorative tray, grapevine wreath, glass candleholder and a few stems of faux flowers combine for a quick and beautiful look.

Get the How-To: How to Make a Layered Holiday Centerpiece

Use Upcycled Containers

An old cheese box, filled with floral foam, serves as a conversation-starting container for this low centerpiece of white cabbage roses, pittosporum and silvery Dusty Miller. Small brown bottles, filled with more blooms and clippings, give the small centerpiece greater visual impact.

A Touch of Glitz

When choosing florals, embrace a wintry color palette of soft whites and frosted greens. Here, Queen Anne’s lace and ranunculus pair with luscious garden roses. A rustic wooden runner and pinecones bring a natural, woodsy quality to the display, while mercury glass accents add a touch of twinkle.

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