Grouping Collections
Posted by Thrift Talk Diva Filed under Blogs, Decorating
Collections are more effectively displayed when grouped together and artfully arranged. These assortments of loved items can be displayed as the main focus of a room or tucked away and arranged in small, unusable spaces to create interest.
- In this picture a collection of pigs sleep continently in the window nook of a sunny kitchen, adding the owner’s lively humor to her home décor.
- Classic car prints, purchased at a garage sale in Michigan for three dollars apiece (sans frames) , capture the nostalgia of the twenties and thirties and the grandeur of the era when the automobile was king. The pictures set off a narrow area that is nestled behind a banister and previously only displayed the unsightly wall switches.
- Collections can even be a mismatched assortment of items in varying hues of a favored color. On this coffee table a collection of items use different shades of green as their common denominator.
I was told by an interior decorator that a general rule of thumb for displaying collections or items on shelf or table space most pleasingly is to use groupings of three. Do you find that to be true?
Hi Peggy,
Yes, odd number groupings are more pleasing to the eye. . .3,6,9 and so on. Another technique is to vary the heights of the items. You’ll notice on the table I have five (odd number) pieces of pottery (in varying hues of green)of different heights and sizes.