Fresh ideas for wall fillers

The fact of the matter is that almost anything, given some imagination, can be made to look unexpectedly good. Among the less usual ideas, straw hast of every conceivable shape and size, or just different hats from various countries (military headgear for example) look lively and can be hung up in a square or rectangle; so can keys of every size and description; old tools; a series of chains looped and dangling; lids from casseroles; terrines; old postcards or cigarrete cards; a large montage of interesting tickets; bicolored ping-pong balls stuck into painted plywood drilled with holes; a montage of old transfers or autumn leaves; even six or seven different varieties of corn, neatly labelled and mounted on black or brown velvet and simply framed.

Trellis is cheap and a piece of it can be pinned to a wall and used as an easy pinboard for a hotchpotch of cards, clippings, sketches, labels which can all look quite decorative. Scrap wood is often cheap and a square or rectangle of some sort of boarding can be covered in dark felt or burlap to tone in with a collection of belts, or just belt buckles for that matter, which are often highly ornamental. Nineteenth century buttons and cuff-links can be shown off in much the same manner, and arranged in squares, according to taste and the type of collection.



Old kitchen utensils, long since disgarded but tucked away for some forgotten reason in the backs of drawers, can be stuck to more board and the whole spray painted with shiny white or black, or any color that suits.

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by Probo Hindarto
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