Ornaments

seven-day-weekend

Following on from the 'What's on Your Walls?' thread:

I know some people who have ornaments and family photographs everywhere. The ornaments are mostly Doulton figures of people or dogs. There seem to be hundreds of them. There are dozens of family photos everywhere, and several little tables that just exist to put ornament and/or photographs on.

To me it looks incredibly cluttered and I don't like these sorts of ornaments and photos anyway.

Our only ornaments are my husbands fossils and minerals in a glass-fronted cabinet and one or two stylised cats. We don't have any family photographs on show.

We do however have candles and houseplants as decoration.

So... what is your taste in ornaments? Do you love them or hate them?

MrsE_2

I like a few big chunky pieces rather than lots of little clutter pieces, I think those little ornaments are a think of the past thats only kept by older people.

Ive got some chunky wood carvings from holidays, modern quite abstract style pieces.
Ive got a few photos in frames, but none on the walls, I think photoframes on the wall are old fashioned too.
Ive got some candles dotted about, the white church style ones, ones in a big shabby chic lantern, the other in a huge glass thing, with sand in the bottom.
Ive got stones in a very chucky glass (recycled glass, with the greenish tinge) dish.
Ive got furry throws & cushions.

Brighton_belle

I'm not an ornament fan myself. I have my sitting fire place mantelpiece (about 2.5ft long) full of 'items of interest' but that's about it. And I haven't bought any for years. I am constantly trying to pare back what I own.
I tend to try and buy practical things we need that are aesthetically pleasing so they combine functionality with being pleasing on the eye.
No photos up either. Our decoration mainly comes from my DH extensive book collection and a few things I've made.

MrsE_2

Brighton_belle wrote: »

I'm not an ornament fan myself. I have my sitting fire place mantelpiece (about 2.5ft long) full of 'items of interest' but that's about it..

I have an empty mantlepiece.
I have a tv on the wall above it, but part of the attraction was the have a bare mantlepiece.

whodathunkit

Books are all the ornaments you need - they do furnish a room!

seven-day-weekend

whodathunkit wrote: »

Books are all the ornaments you need - they do furnish a room!

All our books are upstairs in the bedrooms because that is where we tend to read them.

Pollycat

whodathunkit wrote: »

Books are all the ornaments you need - they do furnish a room!

I think the same about plants.


My plants are mother-in-laws tongues, cacti and orchids.

Egypt191

I know quite a few people who love ornaments, and have them everywhere, but personally I think they're just another thing to dust!

whodathunkit wrote: »

Books are all the ornaments you need - they do furnish a room!

I agree that books look great, but they're not ornaments ( unless you don't read them)

seven-day-weekend

Pollycat wrote: »

I think the same about plants.


My plants are mother-in-laws tongues, cacti and orchids.

We too have lots of plants, mostly palms and orchids, a prayer plant, a couple of succulents and of course my pet aspidistra - a must-have in a Victorian house!

whodathunkit

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

All our books are upstairs in the bedrooms because that is where we tend to read them.

We wouldn't have room for them all upstairs.:o

whodathunkit

Egypt191 wrote: »

I know quite a few people who love ornaments, and have them everywhere, but personally I think they're just another thing to dust!



I agree that books look great, but they're not ornaments ( unless you don't read them)

Useful and decorative, what more do you need?:)