Wouldn't it be sweet to eat breakfast under a cloud of warm holiday wishes? And wouldn't it be fun to see the streams of cards grow over the years, with lovely new cards added each winter? And wouldn't it be great to have gloriously high ceilings like this in the first place?
House & Garden featured this display of cards, from Arper Clerkenwell in London. This installation is "made up from dozens of cards with pictures of Arper's furniture designs, logos and product description", but the ceiling-ly well-endowed among you could make it your own with holiday cards and fishing wire. If packed away carefully, the graceful hanging garlands would be easy to add to year after year.
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I wonder how these are hung? Very carefully, I'd imagine!!! LOL
That is, for people with seriously high ceilings AND lots of friends and acquaintances who bother to send cards. I'm experiencing a dearth of "warm holiday wishes" by mail, so I suppose it's a good thing my ceilings are no higher than the average.
That looks lovely! Although probably not as dramatic, I think you could also do a lot of fun things with a less high ceiling. Perhaps you could hang horizontelly (like garland) or maybe hang from a horizontel wreath (loved your feature on this a few days ago). The cards hanging from that I think would look great!
It looks great, but it would need to be AFTER the year received -- nobody sends so early that you could get this kind of display the same year you needed the decoration -- at least the higher parts.
Me, I get maybe three cards! That would look dorky! ;^)
Or you could run it like Mr. Bean, and just mail the same card to yourself until you get a display going.
Also, I grew up in a house with 20ft high ceilings, and they are lovely, but you have to be rrreally dedicated to a display idea if you're going to actually get out the giant ladder and risk your neck hanging things like this. I'd just stick with the mantle, or a more traditional garland.
Hm. I don't know. Seems like the result would be "here are a bunch of things, placed such that you can't really look at them." The cards are evidently meaningful or beautiful or noteworthy, but they're inaccessible. Pasting them to the ceiling would literally be the only way to display them in a less accessible place in this room.
The effect here emphasizes the fact that you have a great quantity of things, but drains almost all the value out of them. That, to me, is the definition of clutter.
My mom used to tape Christmas cards to the molding around doorways in the living room. You still got the "great quantity of things" effect, the sense of "how lucky we are to have such an abundance of friends," but you could also approach the cards close up and enjoy them. Mom's method isn't as eye-popping as this, but this method looks like a labor-intensive way to make sure nobody can appreciate the cards.
For me, stacking them on the piano is sufficient. Nothing too fancy.
Perhaps I'm just lazy, but this seems like a lot of effort for something that will only be up for a few weeks.