Decorating with Teapots and Teacups
There’s something quaint and inimitable about the delicate beauty of a teapot and a teacup. The only downside is that people rarely use teapots and teacups for their standard cuppa these days. Don’t you wish you could get a little more out of these pieces outside of drinking tea? Well, if you’re a lover of all things tea and teaware, here are a few ways you can decorate with teapots and teacups.
Let’s take a look.
Green Digits
If you like to see a lot of green in your environment and love to care for others, plants are the way forward. There’s no better treatment for that teacup that comes out of the cupboard once in a blue moon than giving it a brand-new purpose.
Grab your potting soil and some seeds, it’s time to get planting. Consider the size of your teacup before you decide what you would like to grow. You can line a few teacups up together on a windowsill and grow herbs for your home cooking. Succulents are loveable, small, low-maintenance plants that would look right at home in a teacup. Equally, you can use your teacup companions as the starter home for your plants before they outgrow it and need repotting.
Utilising your teacups in this way not only keeps them out on show far more than storing them away, it also makes your plants more aesthetically appealing. The contrast between the colours and patterns on your teacups with the luscious green of the plants will brighten up any area of the home.
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Collector’s Items
Maybe the idea of filling your teacups with soil makes your skin crawl. If you’re more serious about your teaware ownership, perhaps you should consider yourself more of a collector. The best way a collector can decorate with their teaware is by finding the best way to display it.
This can mean getting some glass doors for your cupboards and artistically styling the layout so that your teacups and teapots get the most limelight, but it could mean something more. Wall-mounted displays intended specifically for keeping your best teapots and teacups on show are great pieces of feature furniture, turning any room into a miniature gallery of sorts.
If you’re really fancy and you have antique silver teapots that you want to show off – whether you bought them or inherited them – go for the cupboard route. Silver oxidizes over time and needs regular cleaning, but keeping your silver teapots behind the glass of a cupboard will significantly slow the oxidisation process.
Light it Up
Be warned, this idea is not for the faint of heart. Let’s say that you like your teapots and your teacups just fine. They’re nice display items and they have a daintiness to them that’s appealing, but you simply don’t use them, and you’d love to have a way to get more use out of them.
Well, if you’re open to some serious experimentation, you can rework your teacups and teapots into lights. Yes, this will take some reliable DIY skills and a careful hand, but if you’ve got the skill or know someone who has then it makes for a beautiful piece of décor. Whether it’s the teapot on its own with a lampshade at the top, or a stack compiled of the teapot and a collection of teacups and saucers, this lamp style is chic and unique – the best combination!
This type of decoration idea is perfect for people who aren’t necessarily even tea drinkers but who have perhaps inherited a tea set that they want to have around. Get creative with your ideas and see where it takes you – a teacup lamp would certainly brighten the room in more ways than one.
Storage Solution
Finally, we have the storage solution route. This is a tried-and-true classic for all of those things that you like but you don’t really want to use for their original purposes. Get your thinking cap on and see which areas of your life would be best suited to having a teacup or a teapot to help out with the storage.
Jewellery drawers are an area that definitely suit having teacups to store things like rings, bracelets, earrings, and brooches. You can colour co-ordinate which teacups hold which items and make your jewellery storage more of a display piece than just a pure practicality.
Teacups and teapots are also the perfect storage pieces for the crafty types among you. Wherever you keep your craft supplies, think about what you can keep within the confines of that unused teapot. Buttons, ribbon, spools of thread, wool – anything that you want to be easily accessible is sure to find a comfortable and good-looking home in a much-loved teapot!
The next time you think about having a brew the ‘proper’ way with your teapot and teacup, contemplate what other sort of décor uses those pieces could have. Can you see yourself decorating with your teapots and teacups in any of these ways? What about other decorating ideas?
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