Social Decorating With Drink Coasters
Social Decorating With Drink Coasters By Jim Slate Beverage coasters are interactive accessories that can be used to help protect surfaces from water rings, scratches, and other damaging factors. However they also have the potential to be wonderful decorative accessories, pieces which can be used to spread color and design throughout your home. While a single coaster may be a small piece, when you have a set, they can stretch across the landscape of your home, bringing color and pattern to every corner of the space. They are also interactive, requiring a person to physically contact them with a glass or beverage, making them more noticeable and thus a focal point within the room. One interesting way to create social situations when dealing with coasters is to get sets that match up. You can have coasters which alternate questions and answers, or jokes and punch lines. You can also get sets with pictures of related people on them in order to start conversations and give people something...