In our last blog, I talked about the basics of styling a vignette. To recap, that involved using an odd number of items, consistency of theme and colour, and varying heights or sizes.
Once you’ve mastered the basics, it’s time to move on and get a little more adventurous with your vignettes.
One of the easiest ways is to start styling your vignettes as groups within groups. As an example, books or magazines are very popular styling accessories. So lets’s start with a group of 3. If I wanted to impress the neighbours, I’d have a selection of highly glossy and pretentious items, but you can use any books or magazines that fit the feel of your vignette.
The most common way to use books is in a stack. Generallys you face the spines of the books in the direction they’ll be viewed from, as that’s the most appealing angle. But you can also fan them out if you’re keen for visitors to be impressed by your book choices. Fanning works well with magazines.
This is where it gets fun. If you add another 2 more items to the mix, you end up with an overall group that could be considered 3 items, if you count the book stack as one item. In the example pictured above, you also have 5 items overall. And with the 2 plants, 7!
Once you start playing around using groups within groups, vignettes can become almost anything you imagine. Go ahead, have some fun with it!