8 Tips for Making Beautiful Vignettes

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One of the easiest ways to add designer style to your home is by adding vignettes. A vignette is arranging objects into groupings on tabletops, dressers or shelves. These pretty groupings are the perfect way to showcase your style and creativity. Here are 8 tips for making beautiful vignettes in your home.

Display objects in odd numbers

Use several objects of similar shape, size and color together in odd numbers for maximum impact. Groupings of three or five work particularly well and are stronger visually than a group of two or four. A vignette makes a room look more polished and pulled together.

Use Different Textures

Textured items add interest to your display. We love using shiny, flat and colorful items in our vignettes.

Shop the House

Be sure to use items that you already have in the house. There might be some long-forgotten treasures that can gain new life in an updated vignette.

Incorporate Plants and Greenery

This grouping has a live lavender plant, dried lavender, a wooden scoop, raffia and a glass jar. It sets the tone of a vintage apothecary shop. Using fresh flowers and greenery adds energy and interest into your home.

Use Favorite Collections

We love vintage cameras…big time.

We love to display them any chance that we can. They become great conversation pieces and we get to enjoy our collections every single day.

Add Items With Varying Heights

You don’t want your collected vignette to all be of the same height. You want your eye to look up and down rather than straight across. Does that make sense? Stacking books is the perfect and easiest way to add height to a vignette. You can also use magazines, wooden boxes, candlesticks, photo frames or vases.

Trays

We love using trays to group our vignette decor. Sometimes it can get overwhelming to think about putting together a vignette. By grouping your collection onto a tray your design is much easier to manage.

Color is Your Friend

Color always adds interest to home decor and especially to vignettes. Showcase your personality and creativity with your favorite colors and collections.

Just have fun when you are working with your displays. Stand back and edit…take away a piece – add another.

Needless to say we each change around our vignettes a lot in our houses. Think about doing this with the change of each season. Spring will be here before we know it. Start pulling out some of your favorite items now. This list could include:

Aqua mason jars
Books – vintage, paperback
Metallics…copper, bronze or gold
Personal collections: inkwells, cameras, skeleton keys, wine corks, spools, black and white photos
Colored Glass: cobalt blue, turquoise, amber, green
Photo frames
Wooden Boxes
Trays: straw, wooden, leather, colored

We hope you find our 8 tips for making beautiful vignettes easy, helpful and practical. We would love to see what you create!

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CoCo says:

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These are all such great ideas! Color is your friend, that’s my favorite line 🙂 Love your vintage trophy, the amber bottles and of courses the lavender – it’s all gorgeous. Hugs, CoCo

Randi says:

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Great ideas! I always “shop the house”! When things get boring, I just put everything in a pile and rearrange it. It’s seems to make everything feel new.

Also, adding color inexpensively with flowers is something I do all the time. Makes me happy!

John says:

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Great collection of ideas. Thank you.

Brenda says:

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Oh I love the BEE HAPPY bee print!! Where did you find the cute print?

1. 2 Bees in a Pod says:
  
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  Hi Brenda…actually this is a card. We loved it so much we purchased a couple of them and placed them inside frames. Thank you so much for following along…we appreciate it so much!
  Vicki and Jenn