Kitchen display

I have been busy decorating my beach house and have lots of empty spaces - we have just purchased the basic furniture and will slowly get things just as we want them (really I mean afford them!) but this will take time - unless I win our lotto jackpot tonight!!!

In my kitchen I have the usual empty space above the fridge alcove - what do you put in  there?? It is quite high and I am not, so cookery books were out of the question. Canisters would be good but as yet I haven't found the 'right' ones so I had a big empty box. So just the other day I was visiting my son's partner at work and in her shop they had some gorgeous displays. True to form I had my trusty camera in my bag so with her permission I took a few shots to share and thought to myself  'I can do that!' Well, I have and this is my latest decorating effort - I will share with you the ones I copied first and then show how mine turned out.

These bottles had all been collected form thrift stores and spray painted then grouped together - I thought they looked fabulous so I started my search for different sized bottles and vases. Most of the ones I purchased were only 50c - $2.00 so they didn't cost me very much.  I also found some interesting vases in our old farm house - the source of many of my treasures!!

As you can see I had a very odd looking collection of bits and pieces. Everything was given a good wash and left in the winter sun to dry before being painted.

I poured red paint into this glass decanter and also into the stopper - I thought that might make it look a little different to the others.  I was a bit worried about the blue swirls in this little vase but it has turned out to be one of my favourite pieces!!

Work in progress!! I had to spread them all out so I could get between them as it takes a few light coats of paints to cover them. I was worried that they were all going to look the same because I could only get one red spray paint but as they all had different colours and surfaces they looked different when finished.

This is my finished product - after arranging them on the shelf I have decided I need to paint a few more taller pieces to put in the back. It's hard to believe these are all painted with the same colour paint, don't you think?

 I have started collecting more interesting shaped bottles and jars to paint to use as props in my sister's gift shop.

Happy Monday,

Suzy

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