Oh, What A Clock!
Wall Clocks That Make Rooms Look Great
Try an Oversized Wall Clock for an Instantly Stylish Space
A stylish wall clock can constitute great decoration of your interior, it can help you enhance the style and ambience you are aiming to achieve.
Homewares shops offer a variety of wall clocks, but they come and go in trends. If the trend is in line with what you are planning for your room – great. But if your style is not what the mainstream interior design fashion offers at this moment, you won’t be able to find great variety in stores.
Online is a different story. Both auction websites, and second-hand online sellers give you plenty of clock designs to buy from.
Search far and wide, not just in your country or continent. Don’t be afraid to get your clock shipped from across the globe if it ticks all boxes. Unlike many other items, such as bedding, clocks are universal and therefore they can be purchased from just about any country.
Take time finding an excellent piece for your wall. It will be worth it.
If buying a second-hand clock, make sure it keeps time well.
Also, new clocks often come in the silent version, which is something many people like – so if you prefer not to hear the tick-tock, you may need to buy a new silent clock.
Oversized Clocks
My favourite style. My clocks are not big, they are HUGE. A small clock seems to lose its decorative value, and it appears to be only a practical item. When a clock is 100 cm wide, no-one thinks you put it there to merely know the time.
Go big, go bold.
Rustic Clocks, Vintage Styles
Shops offer a relatively good choice of clocks in rustic styles: French provincial, shabby chic, country farm and so on. If your home is trending one of these directions, you are lucky, plenty of designs to choose from. Still, my advice would be to look for something unique.
Art Deco and Hollywood Glamour
Art Deco and its derivative styles, such as Hollywood Glamor, have been all the rage over the last few years. As a result, homeware places offer many designs of sunrays style clocks, with gold or silver decorations. There is a fine line between glamour and tacky decoration. You have to be a very confident and experienced interior stylist not to fall in the tacky trap. When in doubt, choose subdued designs, with gold or silver highlights only. My favourite shade of gold is so-called champagne gold. It looks half-way between gold and silver, as if you mixed gold and silver paint together. Champagne gold bears understated and timeless elegance. I recommend considering it for interiors instead of yellow gold, or, even more so, pink/copper gold – which is a very fading choice of design.
Boho Clocks
Bohemian interiors, and its sub-styles, such as Beach Boho or Eco Boho, are more difficult to cater for in general homewares stores.
Your three alternative options are:
- Online, worldwide search
- Second-hand wall clocks
- DIY clocks
If you are a bit of a DIY and crafty person, as bohemian citizens often are, you should be able to come up with amazing choices.
You can buy basic clock as your base, and then decorate it. Add some frills, ribbons, serviette patterns, cords or buttons – and, voila! You now have your own, the only in the world, bohemian style wall clock.
If you would like to take it a step further, you can just buy the clock mechanism with hands, and you can install it onto the clock face of your own making.
In both cases, Pinterest can be a great source of inspiration.
Kitchen Clocks
Most kitchens need a clock. Yes, we have them in our electrical appliances, but, somehow, it is convenient to also have a sizeable clock somewhere on the wall or shelf.
There is a great choice of wall clocks that relate to food and kitchen. They may be made of kitchen forks, knives and spoons, or they are made to resemble an egg frying in the pan, or a plate with food in it. A bit of fun, a bit of surprise.
DIY Clocks
Car wheel rims, old vinyls, chopping boards or serving trays can constitute a good base for your DIY wall clock. Just add the clock mechanism, adorn the face with whatever your imagination suggests, and you will have an absolutely unique piece of furniture on your wall.
As usual, Pinterest or Etsy can be excellent sources of inspiration for your creative endeavours.
Happy Decorating
Xena
