Romantic evening at home (50 photos): DIY decor ideas

In order to arrange a small romantic evening at home, you do not need any special occasions and grand preparations. The reason is just a desire to please a loved one, and preparations will not take too much time, even if you do everything yourself. Why not arrange such even more often, thereby making your relationship more interesting and happy.

And if there is a significant occasion or a personal anniversary - the first meeting, the first kiss, etc. - then it is absolutely necessary to arrange a romantic evening, which includes a delicious dinner. You can, of course, for the sake of such an event and go to a restaurant, but it can be much more interesting and correct to arrange a quiet evening with your own hands in an intimate atmosphere, where you will be alone together.

Useful Tips

What you need to know in order to properly plan a romantic evening at home, what to cook dinner and how to not miss anything. Let's talk about some of the nuances:

• To begin with, we plan time so that you and your beloved will have a free evening. You should not appoint a romantic dinner with candles for the evening of busy Monday. In this case, the evening can be spoiled by a bad mood and fatigue. It is ideal to arrange such a romantic evening at home on Friday or Saturday - in this case, the next day you do not have to work, which will allow you to relax and unwind properly.
• We think over a topic that will go through the whole evening. Under this topic, the menu and table design ideas are selected. For example, you can arrange a Japanese evening with sushi or Italian with pizza and lasagna. Options for the sea. The most sophisticated evening, of course, in the French style. French cuisine gives aesthetic and taste pleasure, in addition, many products of the French table are aphrodisiacs, which is the best suited to a romantic dinner.
• Think over the place where the table will stand. It is better not to settle in the bedroom, otherwise there is a chance that it will not even reach dinner. Good ideas are to stay in the living room, and if the size of the apartment and its layout allow, then on a warm summer evening you can arrange an evening on the open terrace, or even on the roof of your house.
• Carefully think over ideas of design of a table and dishes. The more beautiful and attractive it is to decorate everything, the more successful a romantic evening will be for you and your beloved.
• Do not clutter up the table space with a huge variety of bottles, glasses, dishes, candles, bouquets and other decor. It is important that nothing prevents you from seeing and communicating with each other.
• As for the menu, do not include unnecessarily heavy and fatty dishes. Best ideas: stop on diet meat or fish, which is better to cook with your own hands, vegetables, fruits. And coffee with sweets. In this case, you will still be capable of dancing and other pleasant entertainments after the dinner ends.
• Consider what you will drink from alcohol for dinner. It is undesirable to opt for strong alcohol. In this case, especially on Friday evening, you can just fall asleep after dinner, and the effect will be spoiled. It is better to drink tasty wine or champagne. You can also make beautiful simple cocktails with your own hands and decorate them with fruits and berries.
• Think about your appearance. It is important to look your best. Before dinner, take a bath, do makeup, dress up.
• Think carefully about lighting ideas.The light should be dim so that the eyes rest and do not strain. This way you will completely relax. The ideal option, of course, is to decorate the table with candles. Scientists have proven that if you look at a burning candle, this one already heals vision and soothes nerves.
• You need to make beautiful music. Do not use heavy rock tunes on a romance evening. To tune in the appropriate mood, you need beautiful, harmonious music that will not distract you from each other.

Ideas

Consider what scenarios you can arrange a romantic home evening.

Classical

Features:

• The table is always set in the living room.
• The dinner menu is traditional, hearty, but at the same time elegant. Do not take on new recipes, cook time-tested delicious dishes. Only experiments with sauces and table decoration are allowed.
• Table setting in Romanesque style. The room is dimly lit, create an intimate twilight. This can be achieved by turning off the top lights and lit candles.
• Necessarily a small bouquet of flowers as a table decoration.
• The music is beautiful, classical is preferred.

Football

This option is suitable for companions of life of football fans. Everyone knows the hostility of women to male hobbies, including football. So surprise your beloved by dividing at least one evening his passion. He will appreciate.

Features:

• You will definitely need a TV, so you will have to place it where it is at your place, and where the largest screen is. Most likely, it will be a living room. But if a huge plasma is installed in the bedroom, then it would be nice to organize dinner there too.
• It will be necessary to design a table design in a football style. Nothing too expensive and special for this is needed. At home, green napkins that mimic a football field and, possibly, some symbolism of his favorite football team will do. All this can be ordered on the Internet or do it yourself.
• On the menu, include a variety of snacks. Just do not make heavy fatty sandwiches. You can cook canapes, light salads, buy snacks. Good ideas: slicing cheese and sausages. And if the beloved is a fan of some Italian club, then it’s better not to find pizza for him this evening. Be sure to include fruits in the menu, with their help you can perfectly decorate the "football" table.
• As a drink, cold beer from fogged glasses will fit perfectly into such an evening.
• Think over your outfit. You can dress in the style of cher-leader - girls from the support group. And in this case it is still unknown - where all the attention of the beloved will be directed - to the TV screen or to you.

Picnic

This version of a romantic evening imitates the usual outing to nature with a basket of food. But if outside the window is winter or autumn, then a picnic can be arranged without leaving your apartment.

Features:

• If you have a glazed porch or insulated balcony, then this is the perfect place to have a romantic evening.
• The table is laid without any frills - because in nature we do not follow the rules of serving and romantic decor too much. As a main dish, meat cooked on the grill with your own hands is ideal. It will imitate barbecue.
• Do it yourself with a fruit basket, napkins, sangria.
• As an appropriate background, you can organize a recording with birdsong or forest noise. Thus, closing your eyes, you can fully feel yourself in nature, being at home.

Aphrodisiacs

Include aphrodisiac products in dinner for your loved one - and the success of the evening will be guaranteed.

These products include:

• Various spices. Do not use too thermonuclear and sharp, such as hot pepper. It is better to stay at the basilica, cilantro and other “soft” spices.
• Bananas and strawberries. It is very tasty if you make strawberries in white chocolate with your own hands.
• Oysters and mussels.
• Nuts, especially almonds and walnuts. They can be included in salads or confectionery.
• Asparagus and celery. You can find interesting ideas with salads with these vegetables.
• Anise.
• Coconut. Self-made cocktails with this tropical fruit will be very welcome.
• Avocado.
• Honey.
• Dates and vanilla. Suitable as a decoration for dishes.

As you can see, all these are products of natural, natural origin. They can be eaten in large enough quantities and not get better. Therefore, boldly include the ideas of dishes with them in the menu of your table. It is both useful and tasty, and as aphrodisiacs for a loved one, they are indispensable.