What the heck is a Vignette?

I said to my husband “ I’m going to do a hub on vignettes.” He said to me “ What the he- - are vignettes.” He actually did not use the word heck.

Vignettes are décor themes or displays of items you love and want to show off. They are much easier to do than most people think. I want to show you some I have done and some I have found around the internet. Anything can give you an inspiration for a vignettes. Your Dad’s old military items. Things that your Mom has made and maybe an old picture of her along with it.

They don’t always have to match a vignette can be just something you have picked up at a flea market or antique store. Yard sales and estate sales are good places to pick up items. I have also found really good items in goodwill.

I love the way the top picture is setup with the old file cabinets and the old light bulb hanging down. We had a surprise yesterday. I had ordered an old chandelier off of ebay and when we were checking it out we found an old light bulb in it. I have the old bulb in a little lamp right now but will find another way to display it. The picture of it will be at the bottom of the page. Funny that an old light bulb makes me happy. The way they have the old light bulb displayed in the bedroom picture looks very nice.

A vignette needs to have an easy look to it not all packed and squashed together. If you have trouble then just use 3 or 4 items for your vignette and no more. Walk around your house collect things up place them on your table or where ever your going to place them and stand back and look at it. Place your vignette at an angle, they don’t always have to be looked at straight on. See if it feels right.

Vignettes can be placed anywhere in the house including bathroom, kitchen and bedrooms. On a desk or a dresser.

Natural earthy materials are good to use such as twigs, sticks, pinecones, acorns, rocks, or drift wood, birch logs, flowers from your garden or weeds from the field. Fruit and vegetables are a good look for the kitchen put them in an old wood bowl or a tall stem glass bowl. Set a vase of flowers beside them than maybe add a small vintage rooster.

Glass of any kind is always great. Glass balls, jars, bottles, lamps, glass vases with candles inside. When you use glass it always looks open and airy.

I made some little vignettes in my house to show different ways you can do this belive me it wasn't easy. I have a big white cat that follows me everywhere and he had to check out each thing I did.

I love old boxes, flower frogs, and baskets.

Here are two different ways to setup a vignette. This is an old filing cabinet, with post cards my grandparents wrote to each other, an old wheat paper weight, a flower frog and my Dad's old glasses. Old filing cabinets are becoming popular.

The second one is the filing cabinet again with old German post cards, old books, an old bottle my son bought with his money when he was about 10 at a flea market, a petoskey stone, and another rock my husband found for me, old lace doilie. The post card or picture holder I got from an antique store for a few dollars.

I love old boxes and lanterns. All around our house are little vignettes. I know some people don't like that, to much dusting but I do. We get lots of dust here from the farm fields. If you like to show off your antiques this is the way to do.

Other items that work good are old globes, old maps, old pictures, old lamps and books. So many globes are out dated now but who cares they look great. You buy a map anywhere and put it in a frame. Old lamps are a dime a dozen and some are so pretty if you don't like the color spray paint them. Old books with green, red and blue antique covers are beautiful and work to well to stack and add something on the top. In most case when you do a vignette you need something tall and something short.

Vignettes are really not hard, you can do it.

The antique light bulb is on the shelf in the little red lamp.

I gave this cat to my husband after our much loved cat died. He has never been real attached to my husband but he loves his Mama.. He likes my husband but he is not his favorite person.

He goes where I go. When I was trying to put together a little vignette he was right there right in my way.

Levi Jones