I just know that in my house, only the stuff that’s within easy reach gets dusted with any regularity.ĥ. I say probably because some of you may get your ladders out to dust that stuff once a week (and kudos to you if you do!). Anything that looks gross covered in dust or is hard to dust, like a collection of baskets, should probably be avoided. There will likely be lots and lots of dust up there, so consider that when you are choosing what to put on your ledge. I took it all down when I could no longer live with looking at the fake, dusty ivy.Ĥ. I freely admit to you that I used to have fake ivy up there stuck behind my metal stuff. If you wouldn’t put it elsewhere in your home, don’t put it on the ledge. The scale will make your objects look dinky up there.ģ. If you have a 7 ft tall ceiling above your ledge, you don’t want to have 4 things up there that are only a foot tall. You need to have one piece that is at least 2/3 as tall as your ceiling. The things that work beautifully on your seasonal mantle do not translate when placed so high.Ģ. While a mantel is generally close to eye level, an above door ledge is quite high above your head. Don’t think of an above door ledge as a mantle – it’s not.
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How to Decorate an Above the Door Ledgeġ. While I’m in the process of transforming my ledge space with something that certainly ups the crazy meter in my home, I put together 6 tips to help guide you if you have a space like this to tackle as well. My pictures above are definitely not great examples themselves, as I couldn’t wait to pull that random stuff down. I tried to find some pretty examples of above door ledge decorating to show you, but all I came across were really bad examples. All that stuff has sat up there for 4 years, getting dusted every once in a while when I was feeling brave enough to get up there and retrieve the dust bunnies.ĭecorating ledges like this one is really a hard thing to do. I don’t generally buy accessories like that at HL, but it was a cheap means to an end at that time.
So within a month or so of being in this house, I stuck a collection of fluer-de-lis and other random metal stuff up there that I got for 70% off at Hobby Lobby. It’s too large of a space to just ignore, but too high to reach without an extension ladder…and I’m terrified to climb down once I’m up there. It’s 5 ft wide, 5 ft deep, 7 ft tall and a pain in my rear to decorate. The very existence of the giant ledge above my front door wears me out. Y’all, I can say that because we I one of these homes. I swear that builders are doing this to try to add character to a character-less home. Most newer homes that I go into these days have these sort of ledges over the front door and random art niches in odd places. One of those “random crap” spaces is the architectural ledge above my front door. One day, I guess it may all be finished, but that will just mean it’s time to start the whole process over again. I take a section at a time and do what I love and what I can afford. Yes, my house is just like most of yours. If you visit me, you will find 1) the rooms I have “finished” decorating 2) the rooms I’m in the process of decorating 3) and the rooms that still look like I just threw some random crap in there so they wouldn’t be empty. The rooms in my house are in three different stages.
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