How to Decorate an Antique Dough Bowl

Do you have an antique dough bowl but don’t know how to decorate it? Let me show you how to quickly style it!

Almost Antique

This summer dough bowl centerpiece was fun to make!  If you have a baseball lover in your family, you might enjoy making it too! All the details can be found here: How to Style A Round Dough Bowl for the Summer Holidays

Dough Bowls Differnt ways –

Dough bowls-everyone loves them, but how do you style them???  A few years ago,  I joined together with several of my blogging friends.  We picked a different room each day for 4 days and on the 5th, we did Designer’s Choice!  It was a lot of fun.  Let me show you how I styled my dough bowl (maybe more than one idea per room!).   

For four of the days, I used this white dough bowl.  It is standing behind the spindles.  It is another reproduction one.  I fell in love with the shape of it.  I do wish it was a little bit deeper and a tad longer.  It is so cute and I just love the “wings”.

We started the week off in the kitchen.  Since it was Christmas thyme and I had a gingerbread theme , I created a gingerbread themed dough bowl.

On the second day, I created a dough bowl display for the dining room.  Our inside dining table at the time was glass topped and octagon shaped.  Using my white bowl again, I combined a battery candle, jingle bells and pinecones.

As an aside, when we lived at the farm, we had an actual dining room with an oak dining table that had several leaves.  I sometimes used a slightly different kind of dough bowl as the centerpiece.  It was called a dough riser. This one had three sections so you could have three balls of dough rising at the same time.

On the third day, we decorated a dough bowl for our entryway or mudroom.  We have a screened in entryway that I decorate seasonally.  My husband found this adorable metal camper at Aldi’s this summer.  It looks a lot like the one my grandparents had when they used to vacation in Florida.  Somewhere I have a picture of my grandpa sitting in a lawn chair in front of their camper.  Of course, I couldn’t find it to include it in the vignette!

On the 4th day, we did a coffee table dough bowl display.  Continuing with my gingerbread theme, I designed this Snowflake Wishes and Gingerbread Kisses white dough bowl.

The final day was designer’s choice.  I decided to use my square wooden dough bowl.  This dough bowl is 16″ x 16″ and 4 3/4 inches deep.  The inside is unpainted while the outside has been painted an off-white color.  This dough bowl is a reproduction piece that I recently purchased at an event.

This centerpiece is a true example of my decorating style.  Here I am incorporating architectural salvage “gingerbread” spindles into the centerpiece.  I explain the logic behind my choice in this post: A Very Merry & Unique Style of Gingerbread

Participating in this challenge was a lot of fun! I hope it helped spur your creativity! 

SHOPPING LINKS:

Here is the link for the adorable Snowman trio!  The remote comes with a battery but the AA batteries you will need for the candles are not included.  I just love these!  Snowman trio

Don’t forget the batteries! AA batteries pk of 32

When looking at the dough bowls, be sure to pay attention to the dimensions.  I recommend something no smaller than 17 inch long if it is rectangle or oval.  For a round one, it should be at least 10 inches

this link is for a white rectangle bowl. white rectangle dough bowl

While I haven’t seen this particular dough bowl in person, the description says it is made in the USA! long dark wooden bowl

This Company makes pot pourri blends right here in the USA! Old Candle Barn pot pourri

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