Unable to get rid of special items that are precious to you? pieces that you have accumulated over time. These pieces can come into your possession via various means, perhaps a piece that has been passed down through the family over the years and means a great deal to your family, or perhaps memorabilia from holidays you have taken or an inexpensive piece that made your heart melt in a second hand store? Incorporating spaces for these items in your home styling proudly putting them on display says how much the memories they express mean to you as a person.
A vignette is an array of items such as artwork, vases, lamps or sculptures put together to provide a memoir for the people living in your home. Unfortunately grouping these items together without a careful application will turn out looking like a mess on display!
There are five key guidelines when creating an awesome display of your precious curios in your home.
- Find a specific surface or alcove in your home that is crying out for not to be a plain Jane and in desperate need of visual interest or textures. To really make the area a total spotlight for your vignette, the proportions of your items need careful consideration and how much space is needed for them. The area surrounding the vignette needs to be unruffled and not needed to be disturbed on a daily basis.
- How many objects are needed to create a vignette is totally open to the maker, however, too many objects risk looking crowded and messy and less than three is not enough! To create an incredible display of objects of different sizes, colours and textures is to go with odd numbers and more than three giving the viewer visual suspense.
- To add an element of coherence to your vignette put items together with perhaps the same hue of colour or similar textures, this will add some consistency to the display without it looking matchy matchy as some view as what should be done in interiors. The key is to step back and take a good look at what you have created, instinct will tell you if something is off or if it needs something else adding.
- When sorting what objects you would like to see in your vignette, look for objects of various sizes and shapes to add interest, one item may stand out as chief of all the pieces this object is your major piece and will create the focal point to your vignette and all other objects will refer back to it.
- The configuration of the objects is key to the whole idea of a vignette and various ways of structuring the display will give it different looks depending on your style. Make a start by adding larger objects first then filling the gaps in between with the smaller objects, this can create a triangular shape were the layers begin tall sizing down as they reach towards the front of the display. This style of display allows the viewer’s eye to move around the display, allowing for the viewer to take in the absorbing effect. The symmetrical style of display where objects are a mirror image of each other on each side is a very orderly way of arranging objects. Another type of display is the asymmetrical where objects sit off centre especially the tallest of them gives the vignette a very casual feel where anything goes and works! Allowing for some areas to be object free allows the viewer to take on board the features of each object and why it has been placed with other pieces of interest sparking a conversation as to what and where each object came from and why it is precious to you and your family!
