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Jars make interesting and versatile decorative items, since they come in a variety of attractive shapes and different sizes. And since you’ve already paid for them when you bought the foodstuff they contained, your jars are now practically free! What more could a frugal decorator ask for?
Here are some ways you can decorate with jars:
1. Use them as vases. Jars can make good flower vases. Just make sure you regularly change the water to keep it clean and clear and nice to look at. A row of these jars, each filled with colorful flowers, can make an eye-catching décor.
Or try using gel beads – brightly colored, translucent, water-soaked beads that your plants can get hydration from. Choose a color that will match or complement your room décor, then skip the flowers altogether and stick in something more subtle, like the lucky bamboo plant. Even just one of these jars in a room can be a very effective conversation piece.
2. Make a kitchen herbarium. Grow your own cooking herbs right in your kitchen, and infuse some green freshness into the area. And to highlight the kitchen motif, use your food jars to grow the herbs in.
Just fill the jars with soil and compost, plant a few herb seedlings, then line the jars up near the windowsill. Snip a few leaves when you need them for your dishes.
Some good herbs for an indoor garden are thyme, rosemary, mint, parsley, and basil, because they don’t grow too big.
3. Turn them in candle holders. Small wide-bottomed jars make good tea candle holders. Five or more identical jars such as these, lighted at the same time, can give any room a relaxing atmosphere and a romantic ambience.
4. Fill them with colorful trinkets and other stuff. A row of jars filled with different things often make very interesting décors. In the kitchen, you can fill your jars with cereal, cookies, candies, or uncooked pasta. In the bathroom, try small colored hand soaps, cotton balls, bath salts, or rolled wash cloths. In the living room, you can fill your jars with potpourri, pine cones, sea shells, glass pebbles, Christmas balls, spools of thread, balls of yarn, candy hearts, etc. Or you could put a photograph in each jar and turn them into picture “frames.”
Just fill the jars with soil and compost, plant a few herb seedlings, then line the jars up near the windowsill. Snip a few leaves when you need them for your dishes.
Some good herbs for an indoor garden are thyme, rosemary, mint, parsley, and basil, because they don’t grow too big.
3. Turn them in candle holders. Small wide-bottomed jars make good tea candle holders. Five or more identical jars such as these, lighted at the same time, can give any room a relaxing atmosphere and a romantic ambience.
4. Fill them with colorful trinkets and other stuff. A row of jars filled with different things often make very interesting décors. In the kitchen, you can fill your jars with cereal, cookies, candies, or uncooked pasta. In the bathroom, try small colored hand soaps, cotton balls, bath salts, or rolled wash cloths. In the living room, you can fill your jars with potpourri, pine cones, sea shells, glass pebbles, Christmas balls, spools of thread, balls of yarn, candy hearts, etc. Or you could put a photograph in each jar and turn them into picture “frames.”
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