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!

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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

The Dough Bowl Challenge-

Dough bowls-everyone loves them, but how do you style them???  This week, I joined together with several of my blogging friends from the Thistlewood Mastermind Group.  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!)  and at the end of this post, there will be links to the other ladies’ posts.  I promise, you won’t run out of ideas after seeing all of ours!

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 is Christmas thyme and I have a gingerbread theme for this season, 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 is glass topped and octagon shaped.  Using my white bowl again, I combined a battery candle, jingle bells and pinecones.

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!

The Dough Bowl Challenge Links-

Here are the links to my friends’ posts.  I hope you will visit each of the ladies and see how they styled their dough bowls.  We each have a different style so I am sure you will find a lot of inspiration!

Danielle   Faith and Farmhouse 7 Simple Ways to Style a Dough Bowl

Stephanie   Gathered in the Kitchen   8 festive ways to Style an Antique Dough Bowl

Susan       Hen and Horse Design    7 Ways to Style Your Dough Bowl

Regina       Saved from Salvage       10 Ways to Style A Dough Bowl

Sue       Shop at Blu           50 Ways to Style a Dough Bowl

Crystal    Sweet Valley Acres   5 Wooden Dough Bowl Decorating Ideas

Tammy   White Lilac Farmhouse   Beautiful Ways to Style a Dough Bowl for Christmas

Linda    A Bushel & a Pickle         Christmas Dough Bowl Challenge 2021

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!

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 the link for a walnut colored one like my white one.  White is still available too.  Comes with a set of beads.

this one is the rectangle one with the carving or distressing

While I haven’t seen this particular dough bowl, I have purchased things from this company when I had my flower shop.  Their quality is very good.

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

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