How To Decorate The Top Of A China Cabinet

Hello Friends! Thanks for stopping past. It has been pretty decorated around my house this week and probably will be this coming week. Still working on the kitchen table, chairs and hutch. It is coming along nicely, it is simply a boring process. Hopefully, next Dominicus I volition be sharing with you lot my kitchen nook makeover. I am so pleased on how things are turning out. I have to share a: guess what?, I posted a motion picture on facebook and my instagram page near wanting wainscoting and not wanting to rip the dorsum off of my hutch to get that, I took washing tape (why washing record? I didn't have whatever other thin tape to get the look I wanted on hand. I did have a very thin roll of washy tape) and added direct lines to the back 4″ autonomously. Painted like normal. Removed the tape. Let me merely tell you………BINGO! I won. Tin't expect to show you.

Today's topic is the large piece of piece of furniture in my dining room. This article of furniture is my biggest nightmare. I never know how to accommodate my mainland china chiffonier. I fight with the arrangement where sometimes I just say, "I am done with it today". When I become into those moods, I leap on the reckoner and search for ideas. At that place are then many dissimilar ways people manner their cabinets. I have seen pictures of cabinets where books are displayed in them. They look good, simply you just have to take a certain room to go far work. I accept seen cabinets where people showcase their quilts, dolls, and sovereigns. The display of their treasures are really nice, merely I want to brandish my china in a more unique way. SO…I proceed searching. I want to walk into the dining room and smile when I meet the china cabinet. I found a couple I liked and just combined some of the ideas and did a few of my own touches.

I dearest my dining room article of furniture. We plant it on ebay. We searched all over for what we wanted and I just couldn't find annihilation that just said "take me home". When I stumbled across this, I knew that it was the one I wanted. When it arrived, the chiffonier came into ii pieces. I never imagined how heavy it would be.

Here is my dining room chiffonier.

Let me testify yous the inside of my chiffonier and how I display not merely my china, merely my crystal that my husband gave me for a Christmas present when nosotros were dating…..OK, you lot accept to think about that. Two young kids in loftier school, what was he thinking about ownership her crystal? Well….ha! Yous take to know my married man. He is very applied. My gift from my parent's was a hope chest that yr. I guess he wanted to assistance me go ready for our life together. AWE!!!! I love my crystal and the iron skillet set he too gave me……take we stopped laughing yet? Back to my cathay chiffonier, please.

In my cabinet I take 3 drinking glass shelves. The dorsum is made out of mirror. The only matter that I don't like nigh the cabinet is the middle wood divider where the ii doors meet. It makes information technology very hard to display the middle department, y'all can't see anything that is behind information technology.

Here is a view of the inside of the cabinet with the doors open.

Here is photos of each side

While searching, I accept read on a lot of different people'southward blogs on "How to" decorate a china cabinet. I institute that they all take a lot of the same tips. I have use these tips on other things, like decorating a table or just a vignette. Hither are some of the tips in case you lot are interested in reading them. I thought I would give you just a few. These are just the top 5 that I go on in mind while decorating.

GROUP OBJECTS IN ODD NUMBERS –Things grouped in odd numbers are more pleasing to the center.
Use Different TEXTURES –Texture adds interest to a groupings.
COLORS IN A VIGNETTE SHOULD Work WITH A ROOM – Color can brand or break a vignette when viewing information technology in context of a room. Create a vignette using colors inspired by what y'all already accept in your room.
Constrict in a few special extras –Vase filled with flowers or greenery or a candle.
Have an "Anchor" piece – Choose an detail as the center of interest.

I could probably name several more than tips. I merely wanted to give you some main tips that are helpful when decorating.

Just like anything else, china cabinets tin take a bit of practice (and a lot of trial and fault) to become right. I yet become and suit things or move things from shelf to shelf. I will keep playing with the arrangement until I get totally happy with how it looks. I haven't mastered the await yet.

I hope yous all have a safe and happy Labor Day! Thank you for stopping by and hope you come visit me on my adjacent blog. I would honey to hear your comments or if you accept whatsoever great tips that you would like to share. PLEASE share.

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