Top Shelf Decor
What is your strategy when it comes to the top of your tall china cabinet, shelf or bookcase? Do you regard it as a place to stash away your most unsightly possessions, or do you take advantage of this space to display your finest vase collection? The images below definitely represent the latter possibility:
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Interior Designer Eddie Ross decorated the top of this china cabinet with beautiful vintage (-looking?) crystal cake stands. The visually light glassware makes a fantastic contrast to the heavy furniture. Almost like it is topped off with a warm breeze!
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This home office was decorated by Anna Orfanides of Anna O Design. Just like Eddie, Anna vent for transparent glassware, but this time representing all sorts of peculiar shapes. I see at least one vacuum filtration flask and a separation flask. Let’s conclude that this is the office of a chemist.
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Interior Designer Olga Adler decorated the top of this cabinet too. I love how she used three large objects. Simple, uncluttered and definitely stylish.
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No one says you can’t bring in a bit (or a lot) of color. Color groupings like this catch your eye right away. Unless you are color blind.
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Black & Spiro owner Anna Spiro decorated this tall cabinet to display a collection of beautiful blue and white ming-style vases.
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Definitely cute!
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Now tell me:
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I have noticed that people are decorating on top of their armoires & cabinets. I think some are done beautifully and some some not styled well. However I love when it’s done nicely!! I also love all the different colors that Anna O. did! There is so much eye candy there. I wish I had the balls to do the same thing.
i definitely like this idea but i think of all these i only like the last picture
the rest of them look cluttered, no?
It’s very beautiful and nicely decorated, but I’m to practical, think of al the dust and the time it takes to clean the top shelfs! I’m boaring, I know
LOVE the Eddie Ross take. And you know, it’s all vintage? He has his own etsy-store where he sells some of it from time to time. His milk glass collection is to DIE for!!
I love Eddie’s Milk Glass collection too!
Thank you for the tip, Olga, I had to add it!
I AM kind of jealous of Eddie’s stuffed cabinet. It’s not necessarily my style, but I would love having all of that beautiful stuff at my disposal!