A great low-cost decorating trick is to use twigs & branches that you can gather up on a walk in your neighborhood. Imagine that – decorating as exercise! That’s my kind of workout!
I picked up the large branch in this vignette after a windy fall day in our neighborhood…
The birch branch above our entertainment center holds some sentimental value for me, since I cut it from the lovely birch tree in front of our old house in California, because I wanted to take a part of that home with me. Now it adorns our family room and I can see it every day.
With 2-story walls, the birch branch serves more than just a sentimental purpose. It also “caps” the vignette on the entertainment center, and grounds the whole thing, otherwise your eye would go all the way up to the ceiling, where there’s not a whole lot to see, aside from an occasional dust web.
And hey…don’t be too jealous of my Sauder entertainment center! I keep fantasizing about replacing it, but a replacement entertainment center never seems to make it to the top of my grocery list! Maybe some day a beautiful piece will find me when I’m out garage sailing or dumpster diving!
Don’t forget that you can also create a tablescape using twigs & branches. This was from a past Thanksgiving, when I spray painted some gnarled roots & branches for a free but lovely holiday table display.
OK, I probably should have ironed the tablecloth before creating the tablescape, but it was all about the juxtaposition of sophisticated mod and rustic!
So don’t think you have to spend big bucks to adorn your home…just take a walk on the wild side and bring some nature indoors!
Showing off my twigs & branches at the sticks, twigs & branches link party over at Funky Junk Interiors.
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