How To Decorate With A Wire Basket

How To Decorate With A Wire Basket. See how to use a wire basket, to create a vignette you can use in your kitchen or family room to hold flowers, and found items that you want to display.

April Design Challenge

Welcome to the new Design Challenge, formerly the Pinterest Challenge. Just as before, our host Cindy of County Road 407, selects an image for us to recreate, and each blogger will put their own spin on the photo. Be sure to check out my friends Rachel of The Ponds Farmhouse and Barb of French Ethereal who come before and after me in our hop.

Our focus this month is plants and our inspiration comes from Debra of Common Ground. Debra’s talents for arranging vignettes are never ending. Plus there’s always that unexpected element she adds, that makes them special. 

Here’s what I’m pulling from the inspiration photo to create a vignette for my kitchen or family room.

• wire basket
• flowers
• ribbon
• white chair
• number tag

How To Decorate With A Wire Basket

For my design challenge spin, I’m focusing first on the wire basket, and how I can decorate with it. For a couple of years I have used this vintage locker basket on my counter holding bread boards and cookbooks. See my post here for photos. 

Creating A Vignette With A Wire Basket 

Now, I’m using the wire basket to create a spring to summer vignette, that I can display in the kitchen on a chair or in the family room. Since my potted ferns are too big for this locker basket, I’m substituting them for a vintage jar holding a bundle of flowers. Those little chamomile blooms are aways so sweet and charming. 

Did you notice the cute metal tray in our inspiration photo that Debra is using as a backdrop? I love her idea, but didn’t have anything similar. So I’m using a bread board instead. It fills in that blank space so the flowers don’t look lost.

Next, I’m squeezing in a large conch shell, a pretty polished shell, and a few star fish. I love adding shells into my decor, and this is an easy way to group them together. If you don’t have shells, think of other items you can display such as mini terracotta pots, garden items, vintage dishes or bottles.

To finish the basket vignette, I’m adding a bow with none other than of one of my favorite patterns…gingham! Oh and remember the cute number tag in the inspo photo? Well this locker basket already has one. 😉 

Quirky Decorating With Wire Baskets

I have a tendency to decorate with unexpected items in our home. On a whim, I’m trying out the wire locker basket with the chamomile flowers and shells (minus the bread board) in the family room. I’m loving this quirky display on our rattan bar cart. Our family room is a casual space, and rustic pieces like the wire basket blend right in with our other vintage items.

After trying the basket vignette on the bar cart, I think it’s going to reside here most of the summer. That way I can liven up the room, by switching out the flowers to bring in seasonal colors. I can also add to the display with other found items I may collect over the summer.

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Thank you so much for popping in for a visit. Be sure to click through all the posts below to see what my Design Challenge friends are sharing this month. You’re going to love these beautiful plant and flower ideas! 

Cheers!

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