Apt Ideas - Display
Farmhouse Dining Room by Titan Homes Titan Homes SaveEmail 1. Make a meaningful display. The walls in this dining room feature framed recipes from the homeowner’s grandmother, hung alongside treasured family heirloom serving dishes and other favorite pieces. Create your own meaningful display for the holidays and beyond by framing a favorite family recipe (handwritten is best!) or collection of china. For a twist on this idea, try decoupaging a handwritten recipe (use a photocopy if you want to preserve the original) onto a plate or platter to create a unique and personal art piece.
Farmhouse Dining Room by Titan Homes Titan Homes SaveEmail 1. Make a meaningful display. The walls in this dining room feature framed recipes from the homeowner’s grandmother, hung alongside treasured family heirloom serving dishes and other favorite pieces. Create your own meaningful display for the holidays and beyond by framing a favorite family recipe (handwritten is best!) or collection of china. For a twist on this idea, try decoupaging a handwritten recipe (use a photocopy if you want to preserve the original) onto a plate or platter to create a unique and personal art piece.
8. Put up picture shelves. If putting up a gallery wall of artwork has you feeling overwhelmed, take a different approach and install a row of picture shelves instead. The horizontal lines give the display structure, so you can mix and match sizes and shapes of frames as much as you wish — and with picture shelves, you can swap out your artwork whenever the mood strikes, without measuring or adding nail holes.
5. Teeny photos. Small photos (especially keepsake photos from years gone by) may not be able to fill much more than a few pages in a scrapbook, but slip them into oversize frames with deep matting, and suddenly you have a full gallery collection with each image presented as a work of art. Buy inexpensive frames and carefully cut acid-free art paper (with a sharp box cutter) to create custom matting for each image. Beach Style Dining Room by Lischkoff Design Planning Lischkoff Design Planning SaveEmail You can get creative and use darker papers to achieve different effects. The best part? The photos themselves don’t have to match in size or orientation because the oversize frames can go in any direction you wish. Or choose them all in one shape for clean consistency.
Michael's top loading black shadow box, 12 x 12, good source for variety of shadow boxes, NY, NJ
Hobby Lobby, $8.99, Walkill Plaza off 211, Middletown, NY
Ikea, $8.99
A hatbox is a hat’s best friend, Goorin says. “The better hats come in a hatbox, but you can also buy them separately,” he says. “You want to put the hat in the box upside down, with the crown down and the brim up.” By doing this, you are preserving the shape of your hat. “What people don’t think about is that the crown is more stiff and strong than the brim,” he says. “If you store your hat with the brim down, you will flatten it.” The hat maker notes that you can put multiple hats in one box, but put the heaviest hats on the bottom.
Photos intermixed on Inspiration Board
1) Under glass. A coffee table with a glass display case is an ideal place to display a themed group of photos. Rotate the display occasionally to feature photos from your most recent trip or the current season. If you have a table with a removable glass top, you can also sandwich a layer of photos beneath the glass; this would look modern with the photos laid out in a neat grid. 2) In an apothecary or mason jar. A single photo placed upright in a glass jar invites your guests to lean in for a closer look. If you have a glass cloche, use a floral frog to hold a single photo upright, then place the cloche over it.
Wallpaper back of bookshelvesWallpaper: Chiang Mai Dragon, Schumacher Hardwire light fixture to bookcase frame
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