Decorating with Heirlooms: Creating a Vignette

Decorating with Heirlooms: Creating a Vignette
Decorating with Heirloom: Creating a Vintage Vignette with family treasures.
When I framed some family heirloom photos, I wanted to create a vignette to tie everything together instead of just hanging pictures on a wall.  Here’s where I started in a lone corner of my dining room.

Decorating with Heirloom: Creating a Vintage Vignette with family treasures.
I hung the photo collage and paired it with a vintage vanity stool that I found junkin’.
Decorating with Heirloom: Creating a Vintage Vignette with family treasures.
My mother passed on to me a set of key wall plaques that came from her mother.  I used one on our Stairway Gallery Wall, and hung the other 2 here.

Decorating with Heirloom: Creating a Vintage Vignette with family treasures.
In addition to the photos I hung, there was this one that I framed and placed on the vanity bench. It’s a photo of a family picnic complete with a horse drawn buggy! 
How amazingly cool!

Decorating with Heirloom: Creating a Vintage Vignette with family treasures.
Look at the Gibson Girl hairstyles and long dresses!

Decorating with Heirloom: Creating a Vintage Vignette with family treasures.
The man with the mark on the photo is my Great Great Grandfather.
So handsome!

Decorating with Heirloom: Creating a Vintage Vignette with family treasures.
I placed a book pedestal under the photos to fill in the blank space.
Decorating with Heirloom: Creating a Vintage Vignette with family treasures.
I placed our family bible we got at our wedding years ago on the pedestal.
Decorating with Heirloom: Creating a Vintage Vignette with family treasures.
It’s a great reference tool to have out and my boys are constantly looking through it.
Decorating with Heirloom: Creating a Vintage Vignette with family treasures.
Keeping with the key theme, I found some keys I used years ago.

Decorating with Heirloom: Creating a Vintage Vignette with family treasures.
I love that one key reads ‘Memory.’ Quite fitting don’t you think?

Decorating with Heirloom: Creating a Vintage Vignette with family treasures.
Decorating with Heirloom: Creating a Vintage Vignette with family treasures.

Decorating with Heirloom: Creating a Vintage Vignette with family treasures.
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