Creative Cottage Style Decorating Ideas
To Dress your Walls
To Dress your Walls
Are you looking for some fresh and new cottage style decorating ideas to dress and beautify the walls of your home?
It’s easy to mix together vintage items right alongside new items and make them work beautifully to create a cozy and inviting home where friends and family will naturally want to gather and visit.
Cottage style wall décor can be the typical, but mostly it tends to be the unexpected items that end up having the most impact.
Choose decorating accessories and
pieces that reflect
your personality and your lifestyle. But, most of all bring
home those items that you absolutely love and find appealing
for one
reason or another. You’ll find that they’ll fit perfectly in
your cottage home in one array or another.Think of your cottage wall décor as a medley of treasures that reflect you and the things you love.
Layering several pieces of varying sizes and themes together will create an eye-catching display that is both interesting and breathtaking. The main appeal to cottage style decorating is that it is a mix of many textures, colors, patterns, and eras of time, giving your home a "lived in" feel. You can blend together vintage and new wall items, as well as stripes and florals in your fabrics.
Just a Few Cottage Style Wall Decorating Ideas
:- Botanical photos, prints, or drawings framed or in shadow boxes
- Painted wall plaques with a favorite quip or saying
- Shelves to hold favorite collections such as your tea cups and saucers or die-cast trucks
- Stitched samplers as wall hangings or framed
- Clocks of all sizes and shapes
- Shadow boxes – display several small items or one item such as a pair of vintage white gloves
- Collages created from old photos, post cards, letters, recipes, or a child’s artwork
- Decorative hooks
- Birdhouses
- Vintage plates – mix and match patterns in the same color family
- Quilts or vintage tablecloths as wall hangings
- Mirrors with painted and distressed frames
- Small wooden cabinets with or without doors
- Vintage kitchen gadgets/utensils
- Serving trays from days gone byWall medallions, and ceiling medallions painted and finished as wall decor
- Wall pockets and planters
- House salvage items from old windows to shutters
Display Tips:
Group smaller objects together by size, color scheme, or style for great impact.
For example, showcase your
glass candleholders
on the fireplace mantel as a group or your latest beach
shells and treasures on a vintage tray or in a wreath. Mix together vintage and new items in one space to add contrast and interest to a display. Grouping items of varying shapes and sizes together is a great way to draw the eye to your wall décor as well.
Use one item as a focal point in a room to get attention. Your grandmother’s hand-stitched quilt, a handmade basket, a family member’s painting…these are all examples of wonderful cottage style accessories.
Stack it, layer it, or simply prop it. Cottage style wall décor is really about displaying items you love and enjoy.
Stack your childhood books on the shelf so you can see them every
day. Layer together items that don’t have a specific theme in a wall cabinet for a unique look.
Prop up a photo or picture on a wall shelf just because it adds color or appeal to the display.
Take an old window frame and prop it or hang it on the wall and layer other items in front of it.
Just allow your own ideas and creativity to guide your cottage style wall decorating choices and you’ll be thrilled with the end result. It will be beautiful because it’s yours!
