12 Creative Ways to Decorate With A Vintage Birdcage
12 fun ways to decorate an old Birdcage and turn it into a unique home decor accent!
Accessories with great built-in architecture are a wonderful foundation for your decorating. Vintage birdcages definitely fit that description. In my post “10 Ways to Decorate a Vintage Sled”, I gave readers all kinds of ways to decorate with their old runner sleds. For another variation on that popular post, here is “12 Ways to Decorate With A Vintage Birdcage”.
Today’s post is part of a “Cozy Winter Homes” blog hop, organized by Amber of Follow the Yellow Brick Home. If you’re popping over from County Road 407, I’m sure you enjoyed Cindy’s winter entryway ideas and her wonderful humor! She just makes me laugh, and I love her style, too! I’ll have all the other posts at the end. Get ready for awesome inspiration!
If you’re lucky enough to have a vintage birdcage, this will inspire you to want to make it look it’s winter best! If you don’t own one yet…be prepared for a vintage shopping trip in your future!
12 Ways to Decorate With A Vintage Birdcage
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Decorate a Birdcage with a Vintage Vignette
With just a couple simple elements, you can create a sweet, simple winter scene. Ground your birdcage with some winter greenery, like this placemat and add a branch or a tree, along with a little animal. Using the magic number of 3 items keeps it simple and calm. You can add stuffing around the bottom as snow. It’s like a little terrarium for the winter!
Fill Your Antique Birdcage with a Collection
Milk glass vessels with votive candles tucked inside can create a pretty glow on a chilly winter night. You could also display a collection of vintage glass bottles or pottery. Even a trio of faux pillar candles, set on a timer for the dark nights. For added interest…
Tie a Ribbon or Accent on Top
I added a pretty satin ribbon and a grapevine napkin ring here. You could add a small framed antique photo, or maybe a little sign with an inspirational word. The handle at the top is a great place to add a little extra pretty.
Style an Antique Birdcage with Spheres of Texture
Turn your vintage birdcage upside down and fill it with organic materials such as wood slices or pinecones. You could add moss or stuffing in between for more texture interest. Place a skinny book over the bottom so you can tip it right side up again without everything falling out. You’ll love the organic texture of this look!
For a snowball effect, wrap thick, soft yarn around varied sizes of styrofoam balls. The yarny texture along with the metal cage is a wonderful winter combination! Whites and creams, along with grays and beiges fill out the wintertime color spectrum. Create a similar effect with moss balls for Springtime.
Fill An Old Birdcage with a Green Plant
When it’s far from green outside, adding fresh plants to your home is healthy for your mind and body. Tucking a few plants under a vintage birdcage can be a simple, lovely accent anywhere in your home. If there’s not enough room to place them in containers, put plastic or foil around the bottoms and disguise the plastic pots with old book pages, music or patterns {“Styling Tip: Potted Plant Disguise”}. The paper adds a nice texture, also.
Fill An Old Birdcage with Love Notes for Valentine’s
Rolled old music in every size can give you a “Love Notes” theme. Lay your birdcage on it’s front side and put the smaller pieces on the bottom. Fill up the rest of the space with the larger cones to keep everything from sliding around. Then place the bottom on before flipping it right side up. (FYI, this cute pagoda-shaped cage is the newest of the family; don’t you love it’s shape?)
And as long as we’re on the Valentine’s theme…
Add Mini DIY Pennants to the Inside
Make your own mini bunting or pick some up from the store. Tie several strings across the inside. Instant party! Wouldn’t this be an adorable centerpiece for a Valentine’s party or even a shower? And you can always add…
Fill a Vintage Birdcage with A Stack of Pretty Dishes
Add a colorful stack of pretty dishes to the inside of your birdcage, along with a few glasses and a shapely creamer or sugar. How easy is that? If you can feed the 5000 with your dishes stash like I can, the sky is the limit on the decorative possibilities here;)
Anything En Masse Makes a Pretty Vintage Vignette
Honestly, anything en masse looks wonderful in a vintage birdcage. The varied colors and textures of old books all crammed in become still life art when you stack them inside. Adding a fresh plant nearby and putting it all on a wonderful old suitcase is downright vintage vignette love!
A whole bunch of candles in various sizes can become a beautiful nighttime feature. Place organic wintertime textures around the bottom for added interest. Winter greens or succulents could be a nice addition here, too. Wouldn’t this be a beautiful display in the front of a wintertime wedding?
Set your Vintage Birdcage on a Wreath
Placing a round birdcage on a wreath is so classic and lovely. You can layer other elements inside, like a cake plate or a glass cloche. I’ve even used vintage birdcages for wedding cards. The spaces are just the perfect width for guests to tuck them through and keep them safe from sticky fingers!
Hopefully these ideas are enough inspiration for you to get out your vintage birdcage or run to the nearest vintage store to find one! There are so many ways to accessorize these classic pieces of architectural beauty! Probably why I have five of them and still wouldn’t turn down another if the price was right;) In the summer I enjoy them on the deck and patio and in my flower pots. In the winter they get to come in from the cold and get all decorated!
>>Cleaning Tip: I usually scrub birdcages in a soapy sink with a nylon brush. I use a brillo or S.O.S pad to scrub the rusty spots. Then I seal it all up and make the rust look pretty with some spray poly. I brush poly the tray if it’s still on.
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For more cozy winter decorating inspiration, visit Kristin at White Arrows Home. Her lodge-styled home is the perfect place to enjoy wintertime cozy views.
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These were amazing ideas for birdcages! Thank you.
Oh my gosh i am so happy i found you. Thank you for all you inspiration and ideas.
Glad to send some inspiration your way, Cheryl! Thanks:)
Oh wow!!! This is so awesome! I love all the ways you decorated your cages! I collect vintage birdcages and oh my gracious!!! Such inspiration! Thank you!!!!
Glad you found it, Daphne! You’re going to have fun decorating, I’m sure:)
Your birdcages made me smile. Hubby and I were going to town in his dully pickup truck and I see “free” I told him quick turn around. Well we are on a Hill and he had to park on the street w/ flashers. And I am running across the street to get this bird cage. The bird cage was huge over 30 lbs and so I had to run across the street, with cars coming, and put that heavy “treasure” into the back of the pick up ……. The top does not come off but it does have a small door in front , I painted it flat black , it was so rusty and because it is over 2 ft. tall I want to use it in my garden/patio area. Thank you for the picture ideas for bird cages
Oh, you sound like me, Linda! Amazing I haven’t gotten hit running across streets for junk! I always repeat to myself what I learned in kindergarten…”stop, look, and listen”! Your birdcage sounds fabulous! I saw a huge one like that when I was vintage shopping in Denver and unfortunately couldn’t bring it back on the airplane:( Hope another comes across my path someday. Have fun styling it!
All this ideas are wonderful. I just sold a vintage birdcage this week. I am missing it now that I see all these cool ideas. Have a great day, Kippi #kippiathome
Bummer, but good;) Hopefully you’ll find another, Kippi!
What a wonderful post! To think that I have a birdcage that I was going to donate! Not now!! Thanks for the inspiration!
I’m glad it got saved in time, Christy! So much decorative potential!
I so often take for granted what Lora (my wife) is able to arrange and display with what she’s collected over the years. As you’ve seen in her creative posts, her ideas and inspiration with all this funky stuff is so amazing to our family and I’m sure the followers of her blog as well. Our house is routinely ‘made-over’ with new arrangements for each season or just because she has an ‘eye’ for display that is often quite unique. Let me tell you from first-hand experience her creative ideas throughout our house is what makes it a home.
Keep it up…from your husband with love.
Aw, thanks, honey;)
Lora, Thanks for sharing your whimsical birdcages at Vintage Charm–I love every single one! Pinned!
Thanks, Cecilia!
What fun ideas you have and love your birdcages, actually i love your whole house. I can’t wait to see what you have done to your whole house.
Thanks, Marlene! Gotta get my camera running;)
Lora! Holy Smokes girl! This was such a fun post! I LOVED seeing all your creative ways to decorate a vintage bird cage and could never choose a favorite! They are all amazing!
It was a fun one for me to do too, so I’m glad you enjoyed it! But I seriously made a mess of my house, pulling stuff out from everywhere! I’ve been recovering ever since;) I’m already thinking what else I could do this kind of post on!
Well, when your decor is in all the flea market style magazines, just rememeber…I told ya so!
This is yet another fabulous and creative post full of fresh, vintage decorating ideas! Using birdcages for winter is wonderful! Of course I love the sheet music, but the colorful candles look amazing too. I love all the displays!
I have been thinking of bringing my large, rusty birdcage in from the garden for a while, and now I am really inspired.
Thank you so much for joining our hop. Stay cozy dear friend!
Oh Amber, you should bring it in for the winter at least! Course, then you have to find a spot for it;) And yes, if magazines are in my future, I’d be plenty happy about that; I’ve been a magazine junky my whole life! It’s so fun to hear everyone’s favorites!
Would you believe I had a birdcage but got rid of it when we downsized over 5 years ago! You came up with some great ideas, but my favorite was the one with the bunting and the one with a cloche in it.
I loved the simplicity of the one with the cloche too, Carol! I can’t imagine parting with a birdcage, but I’m sure whoever got yours was plenty happy!
I have a couple of birdcages, and you have given me some wonderful ideas for decorating them! Thanks for sharing all the pretty inspiration! It has been so much fun being on this hop with you! Enjoy your week!!!
Have fun decorating yours, Shannon! I’m sure they’ll be beautiful with your touch!
I love this! What a wonderful collection of old birdcages…I am going to keep a look out for them.
I hope you have success, Pamela!
Such a fun and creative way to use bird cages. Love the home decor ideas!!!
Great job.
It was fun joining you on this blog hop.
Janet
Rosemary & Thyme
Thanks, Janet! These hops always inspire me!
I loved your styiing ideas. I miss having parakeets, but with 2 cats, it is not fair to the poor birds to live in terror! As a miniaturist, I have turned several birdcages into “conservatories” with stone scrapbook paper for the floor, simple strips of wood to make shelves for the plants and some wire wicker furniture for decor! Never used battery powere fairy lights, but I think that would be awesome, too.I also tried using a small cage for ribbon storage with the ends of the ribbons comingout through the “slats” but was less than thrilled. As I am the “Queen of Cram”, filling a birdcage with “stuff” and hanging it would be one more storage solution at this house!
Your miniatures sound fun, Kathy! And yes, I didn’t hang any for this post, but you could totally hang them also!
Oooh, I love the idea of using the mini wire wicker furniture! I have a collection, but wasn’t sure how to display it. I even have the mini wire birdcages. 😻
Glad it inspired you, Devra!
I love all your birdcages (wish I had one) but I love the one with the little bunting best of all.
Thanks, Vikki! That one was a fun one!I think there’s one in your future;)
What fun and creative ideas for decorating with bird cages. I loved them all
Thanks, Marty!
They are all so cute. My favorite is the one with the old books. It made me smile more than all the others.
I love that one, too, Carol!So simple and easy.I love to hear everyone’s favorites!
What a great post. Everyone loves bird cages and your inspiration on how to style them is wonderful. Thanks for sharing. I love each style you shared.
Thanks, Terrie! I know I’ve always loved them; classic vintage architecture!
Oh my golly, I NEED me some more vintage birdcages. I know now what I’ll be hunting for this spring and summer. I can’t even pick a favorite idea they are all so fantastic! I would love to tour your entire home someday; every nook and cranny. You have such fun style. Love it!
You definitely need a few, Cindy! I think they’d look awesome hanging from your trees at the farmhouse! I’m glad you got lots of ideas!
I agree, it would be awesome!
Lora, we are such kindred spirits–LOVE this! I adore vintage bird cages and you’ve shared so many wonderful ideas! Happy to be joining you on the hop! Blessings, Cecilia @My Thrift Store Addiction
We do have similar tastes, Cecilia! Glad we don’t live near each other and hit the same sales;) Thanks!
Oh my goodness I’m so inspired by your birdcage collection! I think the birdcage with bunting is adorable and pinned that for Valentine inspiration. So happy to be on the blog hop with you Lora. 🙂
Thanks, Michelle! That one is definitely going to be enjoyed for my Valentine’s decor!
Great ideas – I especially like the sheet music cones, the cage with the books, and the one with the yarn balls. The one with the fawn is really cute too. Thanks for the inspiration. I have one bird cage that I’m holding on to, so you have greatly inspired me!
Thanks for your vote, Barbara! It’s fun to hear everyone’s favorites:)
Love all of these wonderful ideas about decorating a birdcage!! I have several and I do mean several birdcages so this post really gave me some ideas!! Thanks so much!!
Hugs,
Deb
Have fun decorating them, Debbie!