How do you display your collection?

Yesterday it rained all day long so I cleaned some of my cabinets and pottery,here are some pics.

Very well, here's a few favourites from My Atlantis Collection.

I suffer from the well known problem that all pottery collectors can relate to (apart from those with huge homes) how do I display all of my lovely collection?
I have bought a bigger home to accomodate mine and have bought several display cabinets but still the cupboards are full of wonderful treasures that rarely see the light of day.
Have you found good ways to show off your collection? I know Ed has some lovely cabinets I look forward to seeing lots more pics soon.
Please post your pics here

I know you're not expecting me to post any photos - you all know my house is weeny and my 'collections' are huge - I have an undignified heap of jumbled up stuff on shelves in my long-suffering dining room (even the table top is completely covered). Suffice to say it's a mess and I ain't posting no photos!

I'm looking for clever ways to store and display collections Pip so please don't post any pics unless you do before and after shots?

here's a "before" one from my house

I like to work on a sort of rotation system , if I have stuff hidden away for a while and Iv'e gotten a little tired of certain pieces i will display them , we have three double cabinets and three single all glass cabinets ,we only have a small house as well , 3 bedrooms etc.but I have only about 150 or so pieces at any one time as i am flogging quite a lot at this time of year , my ideal would be to have about 50-100 real quality pieces ,both for investment and to look at , if i had thousands of pieces I would go nuts , quality more than quantity is the best IMO, I like selling and then going out and collecting again on a different quest .

This another good idea you might like to try Dan , kath bought these little perspex shelf thingys on Ebay (about £12), she collects royal copenhagen santas , when they were on the shelf flat you could not see them but put in the shelf and voila , you will display the smaller items you have much better with this tier system , Ed

Great stuff Ed,that's exactly the sort of tip I was looking for,I'll get some pronto

took a leaf out of Dan's book and took myself off to Ikea to buy some new display cabinets. They're the simple but effective Detolf glass ones, and i'm very pleased with them Will probably need about 5 or six more for the rest of my collection and don't know where on earth i'm going to put them all.

Now all i need to do is get rid of the hideous wallpaper scheme that we inherited from the last owners of the flat (we've been here over 3 years now and still not got round to redecorating that room).

well worth the investment,anyone with a good collection should display it well, I get much more pleasure from mine since I bought all of those cheap Ikea cabinets

Davee wrote:Looks fantastic, are you sure its not the bisto room at the V&A

don't know about the V&A, but i have thought of leaving my collection to the Potteries museum in Stoke should anything happen to me!

Bisto, they are gorgeous! You are very lucky and I am green with envy.

Carolyn

There's nothing wrong with Ikea shelving ..... you just have to have the right pieces to go in it !