HOW TO ARRANGE YOUR COLLECTIONS - Expert tips
1. Always group like pieces together.
2. Create ambience by adding natural touches (i.e., flowers in mercury glass vases).
3. Think of overall vignettes and work complementary collections together (Laidley-Price's cameras on her vintage luggage collection).
4. Create visual contrast with colour-notice how Laidley-Price painted the walls of her foyer kelly green to offset her neutral vintage prints.
“Once I start to collect one thing,” Laidley-Price says, “I go after it with a vengeance.” She marvels at the blue and yellow nunnery (above), a replica of one in Quebec. The covered bridge reminded her of The Bridges of Madison County, a favourite film. A selection from Laidley-Price's 500-strong mercury glass collection. Flowers, Fauchois Fleurs.
The antique cameras and typewriters, atop one of Laidley-Price's beloved Louis Vuitton trunks, were bought for their “old look,” conjuring up images of the days of steam engines. An avid traveller, Laidley-Price seeks out treasures wherever she goes. Her husband's inherited collection of blue and white china fits in perfectly amongst hyacinths and doggy figurines.
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