Pitchers are very satisfying vessels. They come in all shapes and sizes depending on their functions. Cocktails are very swank indeed when mixed and poured in a tall thing glass pitcher. Ice water is extra quenching when poured from a ball pottery pitcher with an ice lip. Maple syrup drizzled from a country syrup pitcher makes pancakes an occasion. And the clouds cream makes in your coffee are more dramatic when the cream is delivered in a small stream from a vintage creamer rather than a chug from a milk jug. But pitchers go beyond function, decorating with vintage pitchers can be creative fun.
If you are the sort that uses your pitchers with enough regularity they never need a swish to get the dust out, well done by you. If you’re not that sort, it’s a darned shame if your pitchers are languishing in dark corners of your cabinets. When they’re not pouring, pitchers are decor all stars, willing accomplices for unexpected seasonal tableaus and for providing clever storage solutions.
Cream Pitcher Meets Vanity
The creatives at the 2 Bees in a Pod blog nestled a vintage creamer on a vintage mirrored vanity tray and surrounded it with vintage cobalt glass. What better place to keep your makeup brushes? The vanity may be an unexpected place to be decorating with vintage pitchers, but how beautiful is this little creamer?
Pitchers in a Flock
Mix and match floral creamers grouped together can bring interest and life to an area that needs a little boost. Cream pitchers can hold things like teaspoons on the table, flowers in a niche, pencils and pens on a desk. Decorating with vintage pitchers can mean using them to replace boring functional pieces with a little cottage style.
Practical Pitchers on Display
Kelly McGuill turns practical storage into a pretty display, grouping her white pitchers on an open shelf in the kitchen. Having the handles as the front facing features has a carefree feel. Pitchers are almost always displayed from the side. The handle angle is unexpected and quite fabulous.
Pitchers as Rooms for Growth
Thrift stores (and for some of us, cabinets) are full of colorless glass pitchers. Geek Gardens used a small glass pitcher to create a perfect succulent terrarium. It’s absolutely adorable.
Pitchers of Posies
Sandra Sigman of LesFleurs fills an ironstone pitcher with gracefully bending tulips. The pitcher shape adds charm that vases can’t match. Ms. Sigman has a book, French Blooms coming out in Spring 2023, full of her inspirational floral designs inspired by Paris.
Vintage disc and ball pitchers are ideal for cottage flower arrangements of summer flowers fresh from the garden.
