Bundt cake pan collection on walls of kitchen.Also in the kitchen, a table (painted red) snatched from the neighbor's curbside trash.
The nursery (even this room has a book shelf).
Necklace collection in the master bedroom.All photos this post are by Abbey Hendrickson via flickr. cc license.
Abbey and Phil collect things, lots of things: vintage birds, knitting needles, bread bag tags, Fischer Price toys. They also love books (it appears the only room without at least one book case is the bathroom). This tendency to accumulation could get out of hand and be less charming than cluttered. But, for them, it works. Wonderfully.
Why it works so well:
Collections are tightly edited and grouped together. The Fischer Price Mothers all live in one row on a picture rail. There may be 30 of them, but visually they register as a single unit. The same with the vintage bird collection.
Shelves: Lots of them. Free standing book cases. Hanging shelves (and it doesn't hurt one bit that the house still has the original picture rails).
Lots of things on the walls and lots of empty wall space. This sounds like a contradiction. It isn't. Similar things are hung or propped close together, this allows for lots of empty space around them. Like the shelved collections of objects, the artwork groupings work visually as one cohesive whole, something that wouldn't happen if they are spaced out at regular intervals across the walls.
Other things to love about this house:
Rescued furniture.
Surplussed office furniture.
This mobile.
And books (did I mention all the books?).
Visit Abbey's blog, Etsy Shop, Abbey and Phil's Artwork.
Why it works so well:
Collections are tightly edited and grouped together. The Fischer Price Mothers all live in one row on a picture rail. There may be 30 of them, but visually they register as a single unit. The same with the vintage bird collection.
Shelves: Lots of them. Free standing book cases. Hanging shelves (and it doesn't hurt one bit that the house still has the original picture rails).
Lots of things on the walls and lots of empty wall space. This sounds like a contradiction. It isn't. Similar things are hung or propped close together, this allows for lots of empty space around them. Like the shelved collections of objects, the artwork groupings work visually as one cohesive whole, something that wouldn't happen if they are spaced out at regular intervals across the walls.
Other things to love about this house:
Rescued furniture.
Surplussed office furniture.
This mobile.
And books (did I mention all the books?).
Visit Abbey's blog, Etsy Shop, Abbey and Phil's Artwork.
would love to show our collection too :)
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