Create a Cozy Coastal Winter Tablescape with Elegant Details

Winter is the perfect time to gather around a beautifully set a cozy coastal winter tablescape and enjoy a warm, hearty meal. Today, I’m sharing how to style a simple yet elegant winter tablescape with a coastal, beachy vibe, paired with a delicious soup recipe from my blog to complete the cozy experience. Isn’t this photo so dreamy? I wish this was my house with an ocean view but a girl can dream right?

1. Setting the Scene: A Coastal Winter Tablescape

The key to creating a cozy and inviting tablescape is using elements that evoke warmth while reflecting your personal style. For my dreamy tablescape, I blended wintery whites, soft blues and even browns. Adding natural textures and some sparkle with glassware and flatware to bring a fresh coastal feel to the table.

2. Key Elements of the Tablescape

Start with a clean base using silver chargers, white dinner plates, blue salad plates and and crisp white linen napkins. These colors keep the look light and fresh, perfect for a winter setting with a beachy vibe.

Centerpiece with Coastal Charm

A wooden dough bowl filled with frosted pinecones, white candles, and seashells serves as the centerpiece. This combination of natural and coastal elements adds texture and interest to the table.

Layered Details for Warmth

Add natural woven placemats under each plate and use gold flatware to bring warmth and elegance to the table. Complete the look with small vases holding fresh white roses.

3. Elegant Napkin Fold with a Coastal Touch

A beautifully folded napkin can elevate any table setting. For this look, use a light blue linen napkins folded into a neat envelope shape, tied with twine, and adorned with a sprig of greenery and a small seashell.

For this place setting I used a blue patterned napkin cinched with a gold sea shell napkin ring.

4. Pair It with a Warm Bowl of Soup: Creamy Vegetable Soup Recipe

Nothing completes a cozy winter table better than a warm, hearty soup. Here’s a creamy vegetable soup recipe from my blog that’s a guaranteed hit:

Creamy Potato Soup Recipe

Easy to Make Creamy Vegetable Soup

This is a very flavorful creamy soup made with carrots, potatoes, celery root, garlic and bacon. It will fill your home with amazing aromas and your belly with good nutrition.

Course Soup

Cuisine American

Keyword celeryroot, vegetablesoup

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Servings 8 Servings

Cost 8

Equipment

Soup pot
Hand held blender
Ladle
knife
chopping board

Ingredients

3 Slices of bacon chopped
2 large Russet potatoes chopped into 1" pieces
3 large Carrots sliced
1/2 large Onion Chopped
1 head Celery Root Peeled and chopped
2 cloves Garlic
1 tbsp Olive oil
1 tsp Kosher salt
1 tsp Pepper
1-2 tsp Webers beer can chicken seasoning
1 tbsp Fresh parsley chopped
6 Cups Chicken or vegetable broth
1/4 Cup Cream

Instructions

Remove the outer edge of celery root, chop up the white flesh of the celery root into 1" chunks. Chop up the potatoes, onions, carrots and garlic.
Cut up bacon in to small pieces and saute in a soup pot until almost cooked all the way through.
Add in all the vegetables and saute in soup pot until the onion is translucent and vegetables start to become soft.
Next add in broth and bring to a boil, turn down the heat and cook until vegetables are fork tender.
Remove approx. 2 cups of vegetables from soup. Use a hand held blender and blend soup until creamy.
Add the 2 cups of vegetables back into the soup, Add in 1/4 C cream and stir.

Final Touches for Your January Winter Table Setting

Lighting is essential for creating a warm, inviting atmosphere. Use soft candles and let in as much natural light as possible during the day. The soft blue and white tones of this tablescape are perfect for any winter gathering, whether it’s a dinner party or a casual family meal.

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Karins Kottage

Welcome to Karins Kottage! There is always something fun going on! You would think after becoming an empty nester couple that our nest would be very quiet and empty but our Kottage nest is usually more full than what we started out with! You might find me hosting a birthday party or graduation party and a baby shower on the same weekend or a big outdoor get together with 25 of our friends and family in the backyard or maybe I might be in the kitchen trying out a new recipe for my hubby and I to grill on the BBQ for a quiet night for the two of us. I am passionate about entertaining and setting a beautiful table! I may or may not have an addiction to cloth napkins and fun salad plates oh and goblets too! I think I will always have a home decorating DIY project in the works as long as my hubby is on board with me haha. We have painted A LOT in the 6 homes we have owned in the 35 years that we have been married as well as re-done multiple pieces of furniture, added wall and ceiling treatments, replaced lights, bathroom fixtures and even tiled floors! I have sewn what seems like a million window treatments for our home as well as for family, made slipcovers, and duvets and even a formal dress or two!

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Myrna says:

January 6, 2025 at 10:15 am

I love the dough bowl, especially the pale blue glass fishing ball/ornament.
- Karins Kottage says:
  
  January 6, 2025 at 10:29 am
  
  I to do ...there is something about natural wood mixed with blue glass that just makes my heart sing. It is that fisherman or coastal grandma aesthetic look that is so popular right now. I think it has become popular because east coast Maine style. Which I love!