5 ways to use your serving trays

Serving trays are versatile pieces that can be used all around your home. They're a wonderful accessory and have a certain retro elegance that you can't quite get with other pieces. But how are you actually meant to use them? We've compiled our 5 favourite ways to use serving trays in your home as inspiration on how to achieve that effortlessly classic look throughout your entire home.

Coffee Table Tray

Using serving trays as a coffee table centrepiece is classic - they're a great way to keep things neatly organised, and make a great decor item that is always in style. A mirrored tray would be wonderful for this purpose, and would look perfect in any Hamptons style home. We love this way of styling serving trays because it's such a classically simple choice.

Ottoman Topper

An ottoman is great for extra seating, but what about your coffee cups? A serving tray can be used as a topper for ottoman. This allows it to be used as an extra side table to hold drinks, magazines or books, which can be very helpful when entertaining guests.

Dining Table Centrepiece

Serving Trays are also wonderful to use as a dining table centrepiece, and work beautifully to display an arrangement such as vases and flowers to create a lovely tablescape. At French Knot, we love using serving trays as centrepieces because it means they're easy to move when needed, for example for a family dinner.

Sideboard Display Tray

We also love using serving trays as a display tray on the sideboard or buffet, and they're wonderful for keeping things all in one place. They're great to display bottles and candles to create a lovely feature that's got a touch of timeless elegance to it. Smaller trays are also brilliant as catch-alls to place near the front door- wonderful for making sure you don't lose your keys!

As a Serving Tray!

Our final suggestion is right there in the name - use your tray to serve! Grab yours when you need to carry out plates to guests and to the dining table. Butler's trays are a super handy piece to bring out during dinner parties to help serve your food in style.

Take a look at the rest of French Knot's serving trays here.