Tips for Displaying Collections: Plates and Wall Art

After pottery, some of the most collected items are decorative plates. As a girl, I remember sitting bored at my grandma’s dinner table, counting the number of her blue-and-white Danish plates on the wall. Today, with three young children of my own, our family seems to be more in a season of breaking plates [...]

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Tips for Storing and Displaying Collections: Pottery

Of all the collections that we’re featuring in our series, pottery and plates are probably the most frequently collected. From all-white ironstone, to bold and bright Fiesta ware, to blue-and-white ginger jars, the forms and colors of pottery give many lovely reasons to collect and display these treasures.We’ve found some beautifully traditional, some particularly [...]

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Tips for Storing and Displaying Collections: Jewelry

Today we continue our series on creative tips for collections with jewelry. Though its parts are small, taken together a disorganized jewelry collection can add up to a big mess.First, a disclaimer. I don’t know much about jewelry. I’ve worn the same pair of diamond earrings since my sister gave them to me two [...]

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Put Your Collections to Work

I hate to dust.Give me vacuuming, dishes, even laundry any day. But, please, don’t hand me the dust rag.My perennial fear of the dust mite has actually had one small advantage. I am very careful about what I leave out “for display” — simply because I don’t want to dust around it later. For [...]

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Creative Tips for Collections

Speaking of collections, we’re busy collecting empty moving boxes as we settle into our new home. As we unpack, however, the size of our collections is starting to be revealed. From boxes of books (can you have too many books?) to tubs of toys (yes, we have too many toys), we’re looking for creative ways [...]

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Color Inspiration on Movie Night

Sometimes design inspiration comes from unlikely places.Since we recently moved into a new home, we are surrounded by white walls. Looking at these blank canvases in each room, the color options seem endless. And editing a design blog is sometimes too helpful — for it is difficult to choose from the many stylish palettes we’ve [...]

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Collections: The Quick and Easy Way

I love collecting. From the thrill of the hunt, to the surprise at finding that one hidden gem in a mound of junk, to the challenge of displaying the collection in a creative way — collecting can be a fun hobby.But then life gets in the way.From a busy work schedule, to a new baby, [...]

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