Three Small Home Thanksgiving Party Ideas

SO, YOU LIVE IN A SMALL HOME, THIS CAN MAKE ENTERTAINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, A TAD DIFFICULT, BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE. AS LONG AS YOU HAVE ENOUGH CREATIVITY AND FORETHOUGHT YOU CAN MAKE SMALL SPACE ENTERTAINING HAPPEN SIMPLY AND BEAUTIFULLY.

 

We came up with Three Small Home Thanksgiving Party Ideas that anyone can pull off.

 

This Thanksgiving do not forgo having all of your family and friends over at your beautiful little home just because you think it’s too small. Instead, thrill your loved ones with how large and well you live and entertain in your beautiful tiny abode.

 

things taste better

 

Tips for small home entertaining 

  1. Buffet style food service
  2. Plates that allow you to carry your wine and food with ease.
  3. Bite size everything to make it easy to eat while standing and talking, you can still do the ham and turkey just serve it in a snack size version.
  4. Pre-prepared food items that are easy to choose plate and eat and aren’t messy for your guests EX: Turkey bites on Yorkshire pudding buns with a single serving of gravy served in a beautiful, tiny vessel for dipping  and fried mashed potato balls on the side.
  5. Beautiful decorations and food presentation.
  6. Make everything look sumptuous.
  7. Open windows to keep the air moving.
  8. mood lighting, use your dimmer switch
  9. Loads of food, you don’t want anyone going home unsatisfied just because they aren’t sitting to eat.
  10. Remove any clutter, only have party related decorations, food and seating out.
  11. Arrange furniture, so it makes it easy for people to mingle, but also to sit if they like.
Below we put together three party theme concepts for a small home Thanksgiving soiree that will thrill each and every one of your guests, they will be talking about the year they gave thanks in your tiny place for years to come.  

Natural 

Three Small Home Thanksgiving Party Ideas

  1. Use glassware of various shapes and heights
  2. Wine bottles wrapped in craft paper
  3. A large cheese and fruit platter filled with fine cheeses and fresh seasonal fruit
  4. Bamboo cocktail plates, to make eating drinking and mingling a breeze
  5. A Charming rustic French linen table runner
  6. Clear bottles of various heights stuffed with cream candles create a dramatic effect
  7. A beautiful display of pastries and florals on stunning plate ware and linens
  8. Thrill your guests with a REAL cheesecake
  9. A mushroom cheese tart
  10. Beautiful French linen napkins
  11. Mason jars filled with water, coniferous needles and pine cones
  12. A charcuterie platter
  13. Wood and twine labels

 

Bright and Colourful

Three Small Home Thanksgiving Party Ideas

  1.  Fun colourful plastic cocktail plates
  2. Bright Multi-coloured  napkins
  3. Pumpkin booze bowl
  4. Multi-coloured glassware
  5. Bright flower pots for cutlery
  6. An immaculate and colourful display of crudites, fruit and desserts presented on substantial white platters
  7. Cheerful, lovely macaroons
  8. Glasses wrapped in cabbage leaves
  9. white wine sangria with an overabundance of fruit

 

Wine and Cheese 

Three Small Home Thanksgiving Party Ideas

  1. A Swiss cheese themed cocktail plate
  2. Chalkboard table runner
  3. Corke cheese knives
  4. A massive and extravagant charcuterie platter on a wooden slab.
  5. Wine glasses with chalk paint bases
  6. Custom wine bottle labels
  7. Vases filled with corks and LED lights for ambience
  8. Classic print pattern napkins in Grey 
  9. Cork label holders

Which one do you like best of our Three Small Home Thanksgiving Entertaining Ideas? 

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About Anne Renshaw

Anne Renshaw is head designer and owner of PetitSuite Garage Conversion, Toronto's leading Interior Design and Build firm specializing in helping you transform your underutilized small spaces into gorgeous, multifunctional living spaces, that will maximize your home's value, generate additional income and allow you to create the lifestyle of your dreams