Happy Monday, Friends! If you're like me and love collecting vintage finds, today I've got some easy tips for creating charming and clutter-free focal points whether you are styling a hutch or above-the-cabinet displays.
Pictured above: 1960s Glasbake mixing bowls, 1956 Pyrex Snowflake, 1950s Pyrex Yellow and Butterprint fridgies
Display Complementary Colors Together
While my countertop displays primarily feature my vintage jadeite, unless you only collect one type of dish, it's unlikely that all the pieces in your collection will match. You'll notice that I've created different focal points above my cabinets in colors that complement each other. (The vintage sewing machine was a $1 yard sale score!)
Copy This Nesting Hack
If you merely stack your favorite collections, pretty designs may be lost because they are partially covered. To copy this nesting hack, invert smaller ordinary bowls inside larger bowls to create risers and maximize your displays.
Here's another example--an inverted bowl inside the jadeite allows full visibility of the retro red dots, while the milk glass cake stand adds height to both bowls.
1950s Fire King Atomic Dots and 1949-1959 Jadeite Swirl bowls
You can achieve a similar look with casserole and baking dishes with lids, by flipping any lids with knobs to the inside so that another dish can be stacked on top. Also, an inverted large baking dish will add desired height to show off favored pieces. Can you see mine barely peeking underneath the green design?
1960s Fire King Wheat and Glasbake loaf pans
Group Like Types or Patterns for a Cohesive Appearance
Again, you'll notice my displays are not matchy-matchy, but by stacking like patterns and dish styles, you'll prevent the display from looking cluttered.
1970s Fire King Corn Flower casseroles, 1960s Federal Glass mug
1960s Fire King Wheat casserole, 1945-1950s Vintage Pyrex Primary Colors Mixing Bowls, 1960s Fire King Primrose Cream & Sugar
Don't forget to leave me a comment--I'd love to hear any tips you have styling your collections!
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Love pyrex! My neighbor gave me some of the large blue bowls when she moved. Really enjoy having them.
ReplyDeleteSo funny, Cecilia. I inherited the Pyrex nesting mixing bowls in bright primary colors from my maternal great grandmother. They are still in my cabinets of current mixing bowls. They are pretty worn out but I still use the large yellow one for cake baking at times. They were pretty much indestructible. Love how you have them on display!
ReplyDeleteLoved seeing your displays and learning the names of several more patterns! When I had my kitchen redone, I had a soffit built caz I knew that over the cupboard space would be a dust collector for me; I have a collection of blue and white plates hanging on it; used to have a flat/shallow basket collection. BUT I do miss that additional storage space!
ReplyDeleteI loved seeing your pretty collections Cecilia and how you displayed them. What clever ideas for displaying them! That is a great hack and I had never thought of stacking things with risers inside them to see the designs better...that's a great idea. Makes me wish I had space above my cabinets so I could display some collections! I'll use the riser hack someplace else though! I have that Fire-King Primrose pattern in a loaf pan and I remember my Grandma having the aqua rooster bowls ect....thanks for sharing your collections!
ReplyDeleteYou have such a lovely collection. I remember those corn flower dishes. With moving around the world, many of those unfortunately no longer with me, although I would love to get hold of some again.
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$1 sewing machine??? WOW! Love it! I would not have thought to place bowls inside and turn upside down. Now I need to give this a try somewhere around here. I need all of the storage I can get when it comes to our cozy cottage. Thank you for sharing Cecilia!
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