5 Tips for Vignette Theme Building: Bird Themed Decor

Springtime celebrates a wonderful symphony of birds! They’re singing their beautiful songs and are busy making nests and laying eggs. What better theme to use when learning some styling tricks that will make your decorating sing? Here are 5 Tips for Vignette Theme Building: Bird Themed Decor.

First, Choose A Decorating Theme for Your Vignette

It can be anything! Vintage bird-themed accessories are plentiful and I’m always picking them up for cheap. I decided it was time to corral them all and enjoy them en masse! Yours should be something you love, too, and have a lot of (sometimes without realizing it).

Once You Have Your Theme, Choose a Color Scheme

Once you’ve decided on your decorating theme, choose a color scheme that works with it. Many of my bird accessories are in blues and greens, so my display centered around those colors. Bits of light pink and yellow are added here and there, but the overall look is blue and green, with brown wood tones anchoring everything.

My 3 vintage Bluebird patterned pieces were spread evenly throughout my kitchen shelves, since they were what inspired this display.

Gather All the Accessories You Have That Relate To Your Decorating Theme

To create a themed decor vignette, gather all the accessories you have that relate to your theme. Here were some of the items I tried to find to relate to my bird theme:

• nests
• eggs
• birdhouses
• birdcages

My bird themed items could be found in many different forms, too:

• dishes
• frames
• florals
• accessories
• old book illustrations
• figurines

{For more ideas on how to style your vintage birdcages, check out: “12 Ways to Decorate a Vintage Birdcage for Winter”….because most of the ideas are really for any season!}

Think About Shape, too

Since bird eggs are round, I decided to incorporate a lot of round shapes throughout my vignette. Oval platters, round scale faces, rounded top birdcages, round cake plates and round bird nests contribute to the themed look also. Look at these pictures and find all the round shapes worked in!

Using a repetitive shape in your styling is a great secret sauce you can use in all your decorating.

Next time you look at a magazine cover, see if there’s a shape they used over and over on different textures. It’s a great way to bring cohesiveness to your decorating in a subtle way!

{Curious about the coffee table? See how we made it in, “From Vintage Roof Rack to Cool Coffee Table”}

Anchor Your Themed Decorating With Neutral, Foundational Pieces

A friend of mine has quoted me through the years, after learning one of my decorating tips:

“Give your eyes a place to rest”

A mass of beautiful things, no matter how themed and coordinated, need some places for your eyes to rest. The beautiful pieces can be enjoyed more when there’s breathing room. It’s like margin around a page on a book. Neutral, foundational pieces like books, wood boxes, pedestals and cake plates can be used not only to create different elevations, but also rest for the eyes.

Have a stash of these classics at the ready whenever you are decorating. You can find them reasonably priced at thrift stores, garage and estate sales, and church sales.

Are these styling tips getting you excited to create your own themed vignette? I hope they’ll give you more confidence to enjoy whatever collection you have that has been hiding away not realizing it’s full potential! Maybe you’ve got some bird-themed pieces laying around that could all be corralled together for a fun vignette, whether it’s a single shelf, or a whole cupboard display! Once you get going, it may spread to the whole room, like it did for me!

Just remember these 5 Tips for Vignette Theme Building:

Choose a Theme

Choose a Color Scheme

Find Coordinating Accessories

Think of Shape

Anchor with Foundational Pieces

If you enjoyed the styling tips in 5 Tips for Vignette Theme Building: Bird Themed Decor, check out some of my other decorating tips (and become a Lora B Insider for FREE decorative and helpful resources, down below):

“3 Steps to Displaying Your Collections Beautifully”

“Styling Tips: Using the Rule of 3, Multiplied”

“Shelf Styling Tips”

“5 Tips for Styling Shelves”

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