[Renn/aissance]

We're going to be relocating in about a month to a much smaller place and while it's going to be a great move for a lot of reasons, it leaves me with rather less wall space for ribbons! I have a couple that I like to keep on display and I think I know where some of the long streamers are going to be going, but I need some suggestions about displaying a beautiful neck sash somewhere it won't fade (which lets out my original idea of hanging it across the enormous window or over the lampshade.) I don't want to crumple it up and stick it in a jar. Any clever ideas of places I can hang a sash that aren't wall-related?

ETA- I really don't have the wall space for hanging things in general, so a shadow box is out.

[FLeventer]

Over a picture frame? Like the class you won it in or a pic of the horse that won it? I understand that it would have to be a larger picture, but maybe for a few of the special ones. Also shadow boxes may be an option?

If you have a desk, you could place them on the front area of the desk. Inside or on glass trophy cases is another option. If you have a viewing area, maybe you could hang them there in a display.

[MoonLadyIsis]

I ordered a glass display coffee table for my super special ribbons. They are visible, protected and best of all, whenever someone comes over they see them. For the every day ribbons, I have a ribbon box from Ponybeds.com


http://www.wayfair.com/Southern-Livi...FQq0nQodeRQAOA

like this one, but mine has a bigger glass top

[vxf111]

Frame it in a shadowbox. Maybe with photos and other horsey memontos?

[SmartAlex]

Some variation on this?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bVb3WuYX00...an+ribbons.jpg

[GingerJumper]

Over a picture frame? Like the class you won it in or a pic of the horse that won it? I understand that it would have to be a larger picture, but maybe for a few of the special ones. Also shadow boxes may be an option?

Oooh, that's an awesome idea! Plus, who doesn't like a big picture of a good horse on their wall?

[Renn/aissance]

Oooh, that's an awesome idea! Plus, who doesn't like a big picture of a good horse on their wall?

Currently, he has a shelf to himself.

I should have been more explicit- I don't really have the wall space to hang much of anything, including a shadow box. I'm still figuring out where the heck I'm going to be putting the beautiful portrait of my first horse. So I'm literally looking for off-the-wall ideas!

I love the idea of having it in a coffee table- that's a little out of the budget for right now but I'll keep that one in the back of my mind for future!

[SmartAlex]

You could put it on an existing coffee table for the cost of some beveled glass. Put spacers under the glass high enough to allow room for the rosette.

[cnm161]

Do you have any stairs/railings in the new place? I've got my neck ribbons tastefully (well...maybe not) displayed on the railing by my stairwell. I tell my guests (few that there are) that my house is decorated in the neo-classical egotistical style.

[Chestnut Run]

I was going to suggest the stairs case too, if you have stairs. Another option might be over the lintel of a doorway--which is still sort of wall space, but not typically where we tend to think of hanging anything.

Sheila

[ccoronios]

cnm - "neo-classical egotistical style" HYSTERICAL!!!! Aren't ALL our homes decorated thusly?

LOVE IT!!! A new style for HGTV!

[cnm161]

ccoronios-- it's going to be a thing! I'm pretty intrigued about this shadowbox coffee table though. I'm going to have to get crafty. Glad I opened this thread!

[Indy]

I have a shadowbox coffee table for my ribbons and other horsie paraphernalia like nameplate bracelets and old show halters. It's a fun way to show off my ribbons without having them be all over the house.