5 Tips to Creatively Display Your Collections for Beautiful Home Decor

Have you ever wondered, “How do I display collections at home?” Your favorite vintage finds can be unique home decor with these 5 ideas for displaying your collections with style.

If you love thrifty, secondhand shopping and the thrill of the hunt, it’s very probable that you have amassed some type of themed collection. Sometimes it happens without even realizing it; you’re just drawn to what you like! That’s how my accidental chicken collection came to be. If you can relate, today’s 5 Tips to Creatively Display Your Collections for Beautiful Home Decor should be just what you need!

5 Tips to Creatively Display Your Collections for Beautiful Home Decor

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How a Collection (accidentally) Happens

My accidental chicken theme collection kind of happened over time without me consciously realizing it. I picked up a fun cement chicken for cheap on the way out of an estate sale a couple years ago ($10). He (or she?) has been a great accent piece in my vintage farmhouse kitchen occasionally.

Vintage metal egg gathering baskets have caught my eye through the years and I’ve found quite a few.

And then there’s the Early Provincial Rooster and Roses dishes that were my moms that I fully intended to sell on Marketplace;)

Have you ever gotten yourself into a themed collection without realizing it?

This Spring I happened on an estate sale where the lady had been a little chicken collection crazy. She had them all over the house! I knew I didn’t want to end up like that, but a beautiful rooster pitcher and a couple cute figurines did come home with me.

If you’ve got a theme going that just kind of happened when you’ve been out thrifting, I hope these styling tips will inspire you to enjoy your collection, and turn it into beautiful home decor!

Tip #1-Take Your Color Cues From Your Collection

Gather your themed collection and take note of the main colors. My chicken themed collection was mainly made up of yellow, red and green; those were the colors I used as I created my displays.

When you add other accessories to “support” the main themed pieces, keep these colors in mind.

Add Related Items to Your Collections Display

As you look at what you’ve collected, come up with related items you can use to fill out your display. Make a list and find them around your home or scour the thrift store for them. It’s so much easier to shop when you have a theme in mind!

Combine new and old, too. I found several rattan chickens in the Target dollar spot around Easter. Mixing and matching old and new will keep your display fresh.

Related items I gathered to support my chicken-themed display:

• egg crate holders
• faux eggs
• egg gathering baskets
• anything with chicken wire
• images of chickens
• chicken feeders

Gather a Wide Variety of Textures

Your collections display will be more interesting if you have a wide variety of textures represented. Notice what materials you have gathered-wood, metal, paper, organic, ceramic. What can you add for a wider variety of texture?

Make Your Collection Display Seasonal

Years ago housewives would display their prized collections in a glass curio cabinet throughout the year. It was more of an art gallery display that stayed up all year long, unchanged. I challenge you to display your collections on a rotation. Add seasonal decor so it can look different. Display it in different places in your home than you have before.

My chicken themed display started because it coordinated nicely with my summer fruit themed kitchen (see it HERE). To transition into late summer and early fall, I added sunflowers and deleted some of the strawberries. Mr. Chicken also fit in well with my Christmas kitchen one year with a wreath around his neck:) {“A Christmas Kitchen with Vintage Nostalgia”} Seasonal foliage can turn your collections display into any season’s decor!

Spread Out Your Collection for Beautiful Home Decor

Your collection doesn’t have to occupy just one space. It will be more organic if you spread it to several different surfaces and then it won’t get too cluttery. My chicken theme fills a nose-bleed section in my kitchen, high up on a rustic shelf in our entry. But I also spread it to our built in glass-front cupboard to enjoy it down low. Several roosters and hens are scattered here and there in our main glass cupboards, too. Several collections can be used together to fill out your styling.

Revived vintage cigar boxes were the perfect colored riser and added great texture. Woven chargers and new chickens are a nice compliment to the ceramic dishes.

Do you have an accidental collection that you’ve realized you’ve acquired? Have you been thinking it would be fun to display your collection somewhere in your home? I hope today gave you fun new ideas to display your collections in new ways!

A couple of my other thrifty, vintage-loving friends are joining me today. See what Stacy, Kim, and Jennifer have been up to down below!

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Stacy from Bricks n Blooms has the most amazing gardens at her historical New Jersey home. Today she’s sharing beginner tips for collecting milk glass, and I’m sure we’ll get to enjoy gorgeous vases of her beautiful flowers, too!

Kim, from Shiplap and Shells lives in the Pacific Northwest and loves to fill her home and gardens with vintage charm. Today she’s sharing a road trip to Coeuer d’Alene’s Vintage Market Days; so excited to shop along with her!

Jennifer, from Cottage on Bunker Hill, has kicked in her Fall DIY and crafting juices and has been upcycling thrift store finds. Check out her upcycled DIY Fall decor and how she’s decorating with it in her coastal, New Hampshire home.

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