Clear Glass Vases

Clear Glass Vase

Clear Glass Vase

Clear glass vases can be used to achieve great effects by many techniques. What’s nice about a clear glass vase is that you can decorate not only with the vase itself, but with what you put in the vase, or by decorating the outside of the vase as well. Obviously we cannot do these techniques with ceramic vases, wood vases, or painted vases.

A clear glass vase can make very good centerpieces as well, and can be decorated easily to match it’s surroundings and event it’s being used for. You can use decorated clear glass vases for dinner table, weddings, and banquets. Any shape will work like a cylinder clear glass vase, square clear glass vase, or a large clear glass floor vase.

Putting objects in clear glass vases is a great way to make it pop out. There’s no rule to it, you can use just about anything you would like to, at least that will fit in the vase. Try putting in marbles, sea shells, leaves, pictures, sticks, pine cones, colored water, ribbon, buttons,lemons, or river stones. These are just a few ideas. Whatever your mind can conceive of give it a try.

Another really fun technique is to paint clear glass vases. You can use different kinds of paint for different effects. But you will want to prepare the glass for painting as it can e a bit tricky at times. Make sure the glass is well cleaned and you have removed all the oil from it with rubbing alcohol. After your done painting your design and it has dried add a coat of shellac. You can paint the whole outside for a funky look, or just paint the inside. Paint some strips or dots to give it some dimension, or go Jackson Pollack with it and really have some fun by making splashes, drizzles, and drips. It’s really up to you, however if painting you might want to have a clear idea of the finished product as your permanently altering it.

Using decorating tape adds really cool effects to clear glass vases as well. Decorating tape is a masking tape with printed designs or just solid colors on it. These can be cut up to desired width’s and lengths to stick on glass without the mess of paint. Really cool designs can be made to.

Clear glass vases are also really good at presenting beautiful floral arrangements, and dried flowers or sticks like pussy willows, or plants with a nice root system that you would like to show off.

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Large Floor Vases

Large floor vases can add elegance and dimension to any room. Sometimes you might find bare spaces in one of your rooms that you want to add some decoration but just cannot figure out what to put there. Well, a large floor vase is just perfect for filling up empty spaces like corners and hallways.

Decorative floor vases are great as a stand alone piece but are also very good at drawing attention to other pieces, like that great painting you love to show off, or next to that expensive leather couch you just bought. They can really make other objects that were somewhat subdued really pop out. Floor vases are complemented very well with long dried flowers or sticks/twigs and look absolutely great.

The first you should do is examine the space you are trying to decorate. Is it a large room with lot’s of space in the corners, or maybe it’s a hallway that’s just a bit to bare.

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Then think about what color, size, pattern, and shape of a vase would complement that space. You will probably want to stick with the style of the space, for instance if the room already has a contemporary feel to it, then tall floor vases with a busy design is probably not going to match very well. There are many types of large floor vases to pick from, you have your elegant traditional porcelain or ceramic, and beautifully lacquered ones made out of wood that offer a great glossy finish. Ceramic floor vases can be eye catching as well as a large clear glass floor vase. Bamboo is always a nice way to go and can be extremely strong, and I especially like a tall floor vase.

Just be careful with the wood vases, as some are not made to have water in them. For these you’ll want to stick with the dried flower arrangements or sticks. If you really want fresh flowers in them make sure you put in a plastic container first, so you do not damage your floor vases.

Once you find a nice large floor vase that will match it’s surrounding’s well, give it a nice home in the space you picked out for it. I hope it looks great. If you are having problems finding nice vases you should check out some of my favorite places to find great vases Amazon Vase Deals and Bellacor

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