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The Best Room for Collectibles
Consider this spot for your prized keepsakes
THOSE much-loved treasures you’ve collected over the years can sometimes struggle to find a home in your home. Tchotchkes may not fit in with the decor of your living spaces, changing the character of a room. Here’s an idea: Displaying collectibles in a bathroom can personalize and add a little whimsy to an otherwise antiseptic space.
“You don’t have to be so serious in the bathroom,” says interior designer Bob Richter of Lambertville, New Jersey. Richter’s own World War II–themed bathroom boasts vintage items like a U.S. Navy poster and antique glass bottles. “It feels like a curious, inviting place to be.”
Sharon DellaPiazza, 55, of Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, has also put this idea into practice, displaying her mermaids and fairies, perfume bottles and some of her late mother’s Hummel figurines on a wrought iron wall shelf. “It makes me happy,” she says. “It’s like I’ve stepped into a little fairy world before I need to step into the real world.” —Sheryl Jean