Do you have a little corner or vignette in your house that you love?
This is kind of odd, I guess, but in our sitting room/library I‘ve got this little corner that‘s not big enough for much. I’ve had a few different things on this table, but the latest relocation of my boxes of shells and beach stones just makes me happy. They are from different places, from RI to Cape Cod to FL and CA and more remote places like Turks & Caicos.
On the walls are some photos from our Safari last year.
Do you have a similar sort of vignette or “happy corner” that you can share?
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panko9
3 years agoI love that Sue. It’s very pretty.
last Christmas I pulled together a few of my late MIL’s vintage decorations. It brought back many happy memories for DH.
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eld6161
3 years agoFun thread!
I display little items in this space under my door chimes. The vase is from Paris from my youngest DD. The others are from India given to me by my oldest.
I usually change these out during a holiday.
It is common knowledge in my family that I like little things.
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l pinkmountain
3 years ago
My late Mother's Japanese doll collection plus a few other tchotchkes. The pictures are from a vintage 1950's calendar. I had them framed for Mom a few years before she died.
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoOh these are lovely. I think the magic of all houses are in the small details and the corners!
I have a vestibule that makes me smile. It is a work in progress I still have painters’ tape on the walls for I have yet to decide what color to paint the third stripes. The green is painters tape.
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Jilly
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoLoving this thread, enjoying the meaningful pictures. :)
My favorite corner: We downsized and turned the formal dining room into a sitting area. I have a vintage china cabinet, ghost chair, vintage cowhide rug, and my zebra chair ... which was the last birthday present my late husband gave to me.
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3 years agoAs a passionate collector of antique Chinese porcelain, mostly 18th and 19th century, I have "vignettes" all over the place. I absolutely love being surrounded by my collection, so there's something in every single room. Please allow me to bombard you with a few.
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3 years agoGreat thread! All of your vignettes make me smile too. When we moved, I downsized the tchotchkes, but had to keep a few to rotate.
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoA corner... my dad brought this chest home in the 50’s from an auction, the chamber pot ( thunder mug) was used by my brother and I in my Grandmother’s upstairs in the farmhouse she had when we spent the night and couldn’t go down the steep cold stairs to the newly installed indoor bathroom, pitcher was for rinsing our hands 😬🥴... we were grade school and it’s heavy .. nope. Hydrangeas were dried last year from the garden here in VA... lots of memories in the drawers as well. Picture is New Orleans Roman Candy wagon we used to buy all the time it’s like taffy and ladder is from 1800’s England using now in this kitchen.
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3 years agoThe vestibule into our master bedroom contains an iron and marble table that I’ve had in storage since 2009. I tried it in different places in our old house but it never looked quite right. When we moved here I knew there was a perfect spot for it. The planter I picked up in a second hand store, and the German made bust is of Beethoven, purchased from our Symphony gift shop by our kids for a Christmas present to me one year.
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Oakley
3 years agoWhen I saw the heading of this topic I didn't think I had a vignette until I saw Sue's picture. I have another corner opposite the one below, both corners far back in the living room.
Picture is a bit fuzzy but oh well. Sewing table with Oak top that I bought at a garage sale in my 20's for $5. My parents brought the crocks with them when they moved here from VA. Love the picture since I adore Jack Rabbits which we used to have in abundance and then they disappeared. Ever drive down a road with a Jack Rabbit in front of you? It's fun!
Some of you saw this picture not long ago, it's at the back of the LR also.
I've longed for one of these since I was a little girl.
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3 years agoShelf of family memorabilia going back to my great -greats....and dogs, too, of course...they are everywhere. 😊
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3 years agoSueb great idea to use glass boxes for your shells. Here is a bookcase under a slanted ceiling we just converted a bedroom into a sitting room. It’s nice and sunny and cozy
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Oakley
3 years agoI bought this book for ideas fourteen years ago and it's still considered one of the best. Check out the price on Amazon, it's more than a steal!
Christi Carter's Art of Accessorizing
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoOn my counter. Blue and white canister holds stevia for ❤️coffee❤️!
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graywings123
3 years agoThis angel puts a smile on my face every time I see her. She came with the house and was above another door. I moved her so I could see her from the kitchen.
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OutsidePlaying
3 years agoA small collection of silver vases on a doily made by my great grandmother. My grandmother did the tatting in the hanky. I have several of her old ones.
Ingrid, so nice to see you posting here again. Always loved to see your collection of porcelain. Have wondered what happened to you.
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3 years agoOutside great minds !!! My Mom was given this tatted piece by a friend in the 40’s. I have two others .
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jill302
3 years agoIn the vestibule going into my Master Bedroom. The table belonged to my grandmother. The penguin was a gift from one of my closest friends who passed away a few years back
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3 years agoAnother : titled Wood you? I used to collect turned wooden bowls from the places I went to run an ultramarathon. I stopped collecting them a few years ago. The small ashtray was turned by my dece brother in shop class in HS in the 50’s. I purchased the Native American flute in Bar Harbor ME when I completed my bicycle ride in 2011 from Key West FL to BH with 3 friends. The piece on the wall was made by a friend who owned the restaurant in Waverly AL where DH played piano and DS 1 and DIL were chefs. The side board was made by another friend from leftover antique heart pine after our remodel of our 1890 home in Alabama. History and memories abound 😊
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3 years agoOh trail, I remember your wooden bowls from your other house! So pretty!
We bought one in Santa Fe last fall. Actually it was somewhere along the road to Taos — a little crafty coop shop where I didn’t like anything until I rounded the corner and found a display of wooden bowls...
2pups4me
3 years agoI call this our travel corner. I try to buy a coffee table book wherever we go and add it to the collection.
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoI have several in my home, and am working on the vignette on the mantle, but not satisfied with that one, yet.
But here, in the kitchen: A half log attached to the wall with a tea set, a Greek-style vase, a blown glass glass, and some little critters you find at Tractor Supply/Agway. PS the main chicken coop has its own little vignette with chickens and a dinosaur up on a ledge. I glued those down.
In the dining room, I have the following - from a distance, and just the sideboard itself. The duck is a wood decoy someone gave me, the watercolor came from the Bethlehem Fair a couple years back, The ceramic cat I painted and fired, The little boy is my great nephew (about a year ago).
Finally, the hallway's terminal point. Colors are bad in this shot. The base color for much (not all) of my house is SW Canvas Tan, a warm off-white with no blues or purples in it. It is really a light canvas color! The oil painting my parents once had is more vibrant, too. At any rate, I was buying furniture at the stain-it-yourself place back in Connecticut for my move up here, and I saw that wood shelf. Had to have! The two outside pieces were once my parents', and the wood Buddha cat and the jade Buddha were gifts.
I am waiting for a bit more sun, then I will see if I can get a good shot or two of my living room breakfront.
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoThe blown glass ornaments were purchased in Vermont at our son’s destination wedding and are inscribed with his and DIL‘s names and the date of their wedding Nov 2 2002 today !! . The bowl was a Christmas gift from our son Garett and DD many years ago. In the late afternoon the setting sun makes it all glow. It picks up the Oriental rug nicely.
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