Hold-Off on Decorating with Cut Flowers -Make New Arrangements for Vases
If you’re planning on decorating vases without flowers, you’ll see it’s an easy way to create a decor statement without using a single bloom. Feathers, beads, ribbon, fabric, and yarn-covered sticks can turn your vase into an eye-catching display.
Try layering items to create texture, contrast, and visual movement. In addition, you can use varied shapes and sizes of vases to complement the contents of your vase. Greenery and branches dried or fresh offer a natural touch on their own or place with other items. Experiment with a variety of looks, find those you prefer, and have fun.
Experiment with a variety of looks, find those you prefer, and have fun.
How Many Ways Can You Decorate Vases without Flowers?
Let’s count. Besides, the above mentioned items, what else can we put in vases when flowers aren’t in the mix? The answer depends on your taste, and although blooms won’t be in your decorating plans, you want to evoke the charm of vases filled with flowers.
One simple way to create fillers for vases is to cover stalks, wire, or skewers, with yarns, natural or synthetics. Consider the look you want, available time, and your budget. Besides, it’s a handy quick-change decor project.
A majority of the displays here use faux materials, and lighting scented candles is a bright idea that can add warmth to the settings. Besides their glow, lit candles create a warm atmosphere, and those with fragrance appeal to the sense of smell. This post features several ideas where the focus isn’t on the receptacles but what’s flowing out of them, showing in paper, fabric, yarn, and more.
Frayed Fabric Stems – a Fine Example of Decorating Vases Without Flowers
Nesting in a Cast Iron Vase
Most of the examples are DIY projects, typical of the flowers on the site, meaning they’re quick work – easy to achieve.
Cotton Muslin Feathers on Skewers
With flowers out of the picture, decorating vases with twigs, blooming branches, or dried basketry willow can form striking displays. More, you can even evoke the idea of budding by attaching faux items to bare stems, and the idea need not exist in nature.
Likewise, decorating handsome vases filled with branches and no flowers, make gorgeous arrangements.
Pink – Green – Brown – Fringed Fabric
Purchased Stems with Purple Buds
Painted Newsprint Paper Foliage in a Glass Vase
Another choice is to fill vases with wild grasses, mirroring dramatic outdoor plants to create spectacular show pieces. If you are thinking of large-scale decor, fill a tall floor vase with branches or leaves – dry or fresh. See the appealing change it makes.
Vases filled with an array of feathers are another choice. Painted paper leaves are the chosen fillers in the picture above, and it doesn’t take much to make them.
Dip-Dyed Coffee Filter Petals in a Whitewashed Urn
Besides, decorating vases with wine corks, or styrofoam balls can make grand statements, rivalling many flowers.
Tall Centrepiece of Coffee Filter Cones on Stems
Sometimes, striking arrangements can prove a simple task as mounting paper triangles on elongated stems.
Marshmallow Skewers Covered with White Fringed Cash Register Tape
Wire Wrapped with Paper Napkin Discs
Where to Place Arrangements in your Home
Despite your design options, consider the practical side, paying attention to where you’ll showcase items. For example, elaborate styles with formal looks are not suitable for an average size kitchen.
If you have room, place arrangements wherever you want. Often, the unexpected prove to be the game changers. Too, window sills, bedrooms, kitchens, and bathrooms, are popular places you can use vases without flowers in your decorating.
Besides coffee and dining tables, entrances are ideal areas for displaying large centrepieces. Here’s the good news; in your home, you are the CEO. Explore your creativity for non-traditional ways to use arrangements and don’t shop for vases until you scout your home for items to use as props.
If you have the room, place the arrangements wherever you want. Often, the unexpected prove to be the game changers. Likewise, window sills, bedrooms, kitchens, and bathrooms, are popular places you can use vases without flowers in your decorating. Vases filled with an array of feathers are another choice.
Besides coffee and dining tables, entrances are ideal areas for displaying large centerpieces. Here’s the good news; in your home, you are the CEO. So, explore your creativity for non-traditional ways to use your arrangements.
You Can Do Wonders with Tin Cans
It may be a supply of tin cans pass through your kitchen regularly. Keep a chosen lot. They’re all-season DIY champions, and ideal receptacles to fill-in for vases even if your decorating plans exclude flowers. Besides, you can fashion them into multiple home decor items, including the above mentioned candle holders.
No candelabra? The featured candle holders are upcycled tuna cans. Choose a can size that works for you, not forgetting, glasses, wine, and other, and pitchers, mugs, and teacups make perfect containers.
Now you have a few ideas about decorating vases without flowers. It’s your turn to imagine and create the designs you want.
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