Reader question: How do I display small objects?
Help! I know that it's far higher to have some big items for more effect, but what do we do if we've got many small objects of hobby? Do you've got any ideas of the way to show such matters (ex. Teacups, small bottles, pin cushions, button hooks, and so on.)?
No. Unless removing it counts as an concept this is.
I am the wrong man to ask for advice as you contemplate a way to clutter up your private home. What you are asking me approximately is room dandruff, but because you requested I'm going to take the opportunity to hold forth approximately muddle.
Before. Look on the cluttered up domestic of a person who possibly feels overwhelmed through the enterprise of residing.
Displays of small objects are clutter, especially when they exist for no reason than to sit there and add "character." Piles of junk don't add character, they add confusion. A couple of objects that tell the story of your life, and that serve as reminders of experiences you've had, are perfectly fine. In fact, I can't encourage you strongly enough to use your living space to recreate the narrative of your life. If these objects have some actual utility, then that's all the better.
After. These parents are about a 3rd of the manner thru the decluttering they want to do. Happiness will elude them until they put off the crap putting from the ceiling and the rest of the junk at the counters.
I'll use myself as an example. I like to travel. Every time I go somewhere I bring back a rock or a shell or something along those lines. I keep these rocks and shells and sticks and what have you in a jar on top of my dresser. Now if I had those fragments of my memories laying loose and strewn across every horizontal surface I have it would be clutter. In a jar, those rocks and shells and sticks are a display, and they become a single object that encapsulates everywhere on earth I've been in the last 20 years. When I want to remember Rome or Panama or Grenada or San Francisco, I pull out a rock from that place and get wistful for a moment. Ahhhh, that jar's one of my life's great treasures. What makes that jar so useful is that when I put the Colombian pebble or the Costa Rican twig or the Bahamian feather or the tiny Roman bell back in the jar, I'm not held hostage by my own history. I can stay engaged in my life today. Spookily controlled, isn't it? Hah!
I get it that I'm more rigid than maximum on the subject of these type of things, but it's what works for me. However, I am convinced that litter will save you you from questioning surely and it serves as a huge distraction from the enterprise of residing right now. If you have to show small stuff, placed it in a curio cupboard or a jar or a basket so that it takes up less visual area and stays out of the manner. Try it some time. Put away all your small stuff for more than one weeks and watch how fast you pay bills and how carefully you take note of the people for your lifestyles. Cleared surfaces will hold you in the now, agree with me.