Decorate Your Restaurant with Linen & Color Schemes

Using Your Linens and Pottery to Decorate Your Restaurant

Restaurant design should be a feast for both the eyes and the palate. However, some decorative elements like paintings or ornate chairs cost quite a bit and put a crunch on your budget. Despite this, there are some very simple steps you can take to add a burst of visual interest in your restaurant’s dining area: Linen Service suggests decorating with items such as linens and pottery—items you’d already buy for the restaurant. It’s an effective way to bring a beautiful design element into a space without adding extra expense.

Incorporating color schemes into your Restaurant

Before you start your decorating endeavors, take a look at the color themes you’re using for the restaurant. If you don’t have any, choose those first. This step allows you to look at your tablecloth, napkin, table runner, and dish selections with a more filtered, critical eye. It will prevent you from spending money unnecessarily by purchasing items that don’t fit in with your overall design plans.

When you’re selecting colors, keep color theory in mind. For example, if you’d like a dramatic look in your restaurant choose color combinations like red and black, burgundy and gold or pink and orange. These colors are vibrant and can be used as contrasting colors with each color making the other color stand out more. However, if you want an elegant, understated look, opt for pale pinks, yellows, blues, and whites. Or choose white as your color for white on white combinations for a fine dining or eclectic country motif.

Putting it together

When you’re selecting your linens for the restaurant, choose tablecloths and table runners of separate colors if you’d like some visual pop. For example, pair your white tablecloths with a burgundy or black table runner. Choose napkins that contrast with the tablecloth as well. If your restaurant features plates and pottery that’s thick and multicolored hang some of it on the walls. You can use the patterns on the plates to bring visual contrast to the linens and also to tie the colors together visually if the pottery incorporates the same colors as your linens.

There are other elements that will either tie your restaurant’s look completely together or provide more visual contrast to the space. Buying aprons for the staff that match the colors you’ve chosen for the linens is one other way to add to the design element (and your restaurant’s brand). If your restaurant features two colors on the linens, make sure that you also supply aprons in two colors.

Conclusion

Remember that your linens and pottery will provide an unexpected decorative element in your restaurant. Moreover, these pieces will look completely natural because they’re items you’d already buy for your space. The best way to incorporate them into your overall design scheme is to plan how you’re going to use them before you buy them.