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Calling all Packrats! How to Turn *Stuff* into Style!
Copyright 2003, Pamela Cole Harris
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If you are like me, you are always finding some treasure in a
thrift shop or garage sale. A frame, a postcard, a pillow, a
quilt, or some other knick-knack that catches your eye or
touches your heart. But no matter how much you like the objects
you find, they can become an all-consuming avalanche of *stuff!*
But there are ways to use those objects to add style to your
home without overwhelming your space! Here's how:
1. Bring together seemingly unrelated objects by finding ways
to connect them by theme, shape, color or vintage. Group the
connected items on the walls, in a special cabinet, on a
shelf, or on a coffee or side table.
2. Group glass objects of differing colors and shapes together
on a glass shelf, in a display cabinet or in front of a
window. Find ways to have light shining through the
collection. You can use candles, clear small Christmas
lights, larger bulbs or lamps.
3. Find ways to display collections in unusual or unused space:
a. Collections of teapots can be displayed on a wooden shelf
installed high on a wall.
b. Picture collections can be displayed in halls or mount
three smaller ones on the front of closet doors (be sure
to secure them well!).
c. Hats can be displayed around the walls of a room just
below the ceiling (more original than wallpaper border!)
d. Collections of bowls can be used to hold collections of
other smaller objects like buttons, door pulls, or small
bottles.
4. Find unusual ways to make the objects relate. If there are
objects of small size, but irregular shape, try mounting
them in frames of the same size or color. If all of the
objects are the same shape, try frames of different shapes
and colors.
5. An old cabinet or medicine chest with the door removed can
be made into a coffee table with recycled legs. Put small
objects in the spaces made by the shelves. Have glass cut
to cover the objects and to act as the table surface.
As you can see, there are many ways to organize and display
the objects you love. But the secret is - you have to be able to
find the objects you need to organize! Just look in the Yellow
Pages under Cleaning Services…or Bulldozers!
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Pamela Cole Harris is a writer, eco-decorator and author of
"100+ Wildly Imaginative Ways to Make Your Own Coffee Table -
a Handbook for Creatively Deficient Decorators. " Visit her
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decorating and remodeling style (and a free newsletter!) Or for
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