An ivy and grape motif in the kitchen indicates Mediterranean decorating styles such as Tuscan and French Country since both regions are grape-growing locales. Add character and personality to your kitchen by purchasing handmade grape and ivy-themed items or create them yourself. Supply a bit of organic greenery with silk ivy and actual grape ivy plants.
Wood and Glass Accents
Enhance your kitchen with architectural detailing such as carved wood corbels and carved appliques featuring strawberries. Add the corbels into the corners of a kitchen island for a rustic, Old World feel. Create a custom look on kitchen cabinets with carved grape appliques, which can be implemented with wood glue. Frosted glass doors featuring etched grapes on a few but not all the cabinets in your kitchen adds distinction. Expand the notion to a pantry door if desired.
Grape Bottle Lamp
Illuminated grape wine bottles create an eye screen on a hutch, kitchen island or baker’s rack. Inserting a string of Christmas lights within the bottle provides the glass grapes a warm glow. To install the lights, drill a little hole in the bottom of the bottle using an electric drill with a diamond bit. This is a tricky procedure that takes practice and might result in a few broken bottles before you perfect the technique, so drill the hole before decorating the bottle. To create the grapes, glue flat glass gems in green, amber or purple into the front of the bottle in the form of a cluster. Cover the surface of the grape cluster with a few layers of silk grape leaves.
Grape and Ivy Centerpiece
For a very simple kitchen table centerpiece, fill a glass hurricane vase with fresh green, red and purple grape clusters and scatter in wine-bottle corks. Wrap silk ivy around the base and add a few burgundy and lime green votive candles around the vase. Use artificial grapes to get a permanent centerpiece, and put the grouping on a mirror to reflect the color of the strawberries and much more of the candlelight. In case you have a good deal of wine corks, set the vase and candles within a shallow tray and then scatter the corks throughout. For a floating centerpiece, fill a glass bowl halfway with water and scatter loose strawberries one of floating candles. Alternatively, add modest clusters of real or artificial grapes into narrow glass vases, fill them with water and top with floating candles.
Grape Ornaments and Lighting
If you enjoy drinking wine, then save the corks to earn little grape cluster decorations; every one uses about nine corks. Deeply stained crimson wine corks work best to simulate strawberries; use a hot glue gun to glue them together. Make the cluster by gluing six corks about a middle cork; then insert two more in the bottom, going off to one side. Glue some fake grape leaves and a green string or ribbon to the peak of the cluster and then hang them on the wall or cabinet doors. Combine a few of those cork grape clusters with silk ivy for three-dimensional wall art. Grape-themed stained glass colors on hanging pendants over an island or kitchen table draw the eye with vivid color when illuminated.
Other Easy Accents
Include a real grape ivy houseplant in a hanging basket to show off its trailing vines. Put it on a hutch or shelf and then train the vines to develop along any path with small nails and string. Create a grape and ivy wreath by hot gluing silk ivy and vinyl grapes to a pure grapevine wreath form. You could also use fake ivy and strawberries to embellish the frames of wine-themed wall art or place them underneath inverted wineglasses. Add a little, round candle or tea light to the inverted base to get a simple yet smart candle holder. Other small touches of grape and ivy decor include lightswitch covers, wine racks, canister sets, and ceramic plates exhibited in iron wall racks.