How to Decorate With Fake Food

We've all been to homes and seen a big bowl of fake fruit on prominent display. While this may seem tacky to some, fake food can be an exciting way to dress up your home. You just need to have a keen sense of how you want to use the food and what you want your food decorations to say about your home. This article will take you through the basics of how to decorate your home with food and give you some ideas about the various styles you can achieve through proper fake-food placement.

Things You'll Need

• Fake fruit, vegetables or even meat Picture hooks (if hanging on the wall) String (if hanging on the wall)

Instructions

The Decoration Process

1. Decide what you want to decorate. This will help you decide how much fake food to use and what type of food to use. Fake food can be used to decorate pretty much anything you want, from your walls to your bedside tables to your front door. There's no right and wrong thing to decorate with food. It's all about how you use the fake food.

2. Find the type of fake food you want to use. Decorating your house with fake veggies has a completely different aesthetic than decorating your house with fake sushi. If you're going for a typically beautiful look, stick with the fake fruit. However, if you want to convey a sense of whimsy, you can expand your horizons to include ice cream, fish or spilled juice. Barnard LTD has a great selection of everything from fake pies to fake hot dogs.

3. Place your items. Depending on what you choose to decorate, the exact method of placement will vary. For walls, use smaller bits of food, such as grapes. You can weave the grapes onto a string and hang them from the wall using a hook. If you're feeling particularly bold, you can hang the food from the wall like a picture. Nothing says "sense of humor" like putting a picture frame hook on a fake chicken and hanging it from your wall. If you want to be more traditional with your fake food, you can arrange it in a bowl. This works best with fruit, but there's no reason you can't play with expectation and make a "sushi salad" with fake maki rolls. If you merely wish to spice up your house with some fake-food flourishes, you can place an apple here or there. Just make sure your guests don't try to eat the fake food.

4. Find additional household items and accents that will complement the fake food. If you know you're going to decorate a wall with fake strawberries, find a color to paint your wall that will contrast nicely with the strawberries' vibrant red. Green is always a nice festive choice. You want to call attention to your fake food, so don't clutter the area around your fake-food decorations too much.

Tips & Warnings

• Feel free to experiment. Sometimes it may seem like a good idea to place a fake pig-on-a-spit right on your dining room table, but once you see how it looks, you realize it doesn't work. Use trial-and-error until you find the perfect fake-food decoration for your living space. Don't use real food by accident. The whole joy of fake food is that it won't rot or go bad.

• If you live with a pet or an infant/child, make sure small fake food is properly glued down so no person or animal will accidentally ingest it. Don't be surprised if your friends look at you funny should you choose to hang fake hamburgers from the ceiling. Decorating with fake food can be mainstream (fake fruit baskets) or it can be completely zany. As you think about what to decorate and how to decorate it, know which aesthetic you are going for.

Resources

• Buy Fake Food