How to display large collection of stuff on powder room walls?
Abby F
7 years ago
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Does anyone have a collection to display and where?
Comments (22)luvs2click, now *that* is a brilliantly-displayed collection! I love it because it's in the room that the pieces normally would have been in as functional elements, but made into design elements instead, with their functional significance still resonating. Great work, DH :) I'm finding myself collecting NW Studio art pottery and Blenko/studio glass, and a bit of vintage NW fiber art and other craft...the last is the most challenging to display, since it takes up so much room! We're planning to create some dedicated, fishing-line-protected shelves in the living room for the glass, so it can be up where we can see the sculptural lines. I like collections of originally non-decorative items displayed where they would normally have been used. I could see tiny lamps being displayed somehow near their larger cousins, in a few places throughout the house, rather than isolated from function in a display shelf somewhere. I have a vision of maybe two other little lamps put on a little riser near a larger functioning lamp, and repeat that maybe two other places in the house. Rotate the collection. That way, the lamps are in dynamic conversation with their environment and you get a sum that is more than its parts, iykwim. Decorative items? Somehow in significant groupings or in such a way that each one can be appreciated, rather than the whole seen as one big obsessive mass LOL (I'm not excluding myself from this -- a bit afraid of the day my Blenko/glass collection tips this point)....See MoreHow to decorate 'collectible' rooms
Comments (20)Not sure that I have anything useful to offer but wanted to say thanks to all who shared thoughts and Magnaverde, ohmygoodness! I used to say that I collect collections because it seems I have so many of them. I know what to do with small amounts of things but a couple of mine are quite large and I'm quite lost. One is a collection of miniature glass animals that was started in childhood. Not worth much of anything except for sentimental value. As a child I kept them in old printer trays, which I wish I still had. Those were lost in one move or another so now they are all packed up and in a closet because I can't figure out what to do with them. The other is a collection of figurines, several hundred I'm sure, of character either reading or writing (since that's my trade.) Right now they are in a china cabinet in my office. A few are on the bookcases in the library but there are too many to have out on the shelves because then there would be no room left. I don't know that what I have is the best place for them but it's the only place I can corral them all....See MoreStuff, stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff!
Comments (61)"Just wait until you have to pack up all that crap and move it." My SIL just bought a retirement home so they are decluttering their current house as a preparation for selling it--she keeps telling me she can't believe how much STUFF she's got to get rid of. When I go to their house I always admire how it looks nicely organized and without extraneous things all over. However, I also admire her tons of closets and storage space which she says leads to keeping, you guessed it, all that stuff LOL. I've decided I will play a mental game this summer and pretend we have to move; maybe that will be my motivation to get rid of much unnecessary and unused stuff in our house! I use the holidays and shopping for gifts to satisfy any yen I may have to be a retail hunter/gatherer. The past few years I increasingly feel as if I am gorging myself after staying on a careful and healthy diet; by the time January comes I feel so psychically bloated from all the shopping /buying that I need another year to rest up and recover! It's interesting to me to watch my young adult daughter who is setting up her first home. She loveslovesloves Home Goods, Marshalls, Pier 1 etc. And when I go with her I usually find stuff I could easily buy. I have a rule that I can't take anything from those places home the day I see it. That usually short circuits the purchase, I'm rarely motivated enough to fight the traffic and crowds to go back a second time!...See MoreHow to best display linens on a wall?
Comments (19)May I assume that when you write "linens" you mean "textiles"? Here's a photo of some of mine as mounted on wall. (You can click on it to see a larger image.) The oldest, the small rondelles, are Coptics that date back to the 3rd or 4th century C.E. as well as some from South America and the Middle East that are as recent as the 18th, but that's beside the point. These have all been framed under glass. Each is mounted on Linen which in turn is stretched over acid-free foam core board and taped onto the back side of the board. The glass is separated from the surface of the fabric by a 1/4 inch plastic spacer around the edges of the frame, practically invisible beneath even these very narrow metal frames. You may or may not need or even consider going to these extremes, but I am surprised that no one has thought to warn you against three things: first, allowing the textile to touch wood or cardboard or any backing that is not acid-free. The presence of any acidic backing is, over time, going to discolor and/or ultimately destroy your textile. Second, if you choose to cover your textile with a sheet of glass or plastic to protect it from dust or smoke or other airborne particles, the glass must not touch the textile because moisture may condense on the inside surface of the glass as a result of temperature and humidity conditions. And, third, although it doesn't apply to what I have shown but does apply to what you have described, is folding. Folding any fabric, over time is going to weaken the threads at the fold line and, again over time, the part of the fabric that is exposed to light will fade in relation to that part of the fabric that is not. Granted, these are museum-level concerns, but each is worthy of your consideration depending primarily on the value (not in terms of dollars) to you of the pieces that you have collected. I have admired pieces of fabric that have been attached to a sunlit wall with thumbtacks, leaving a rusty little circle on each corner, but I'd much prefer to find one that's be languishing in an attic trunk for the last hundred years, perhaps brought out only to show the children what their great-grandmother sewed or what faraway country she had visited, or perhaps even had come from....See Morelindac92
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