Looking for fresh display ideas? Take a look at these easy-to-implement ideas we found on Pinterest.
Unconventional Chandeliers
Take this Mason jar chandelier. Mason jars, still enjoying their unlikely fashionable status, dangle on twine attached to their lids. These are filled with red ornaments to great effect. It’s easy to imagine other versions — filled with Christmas lights, air plants, or candles.
White was another big holiday display theme on Pinterest. This photo from ABC Carpet & Home uses actual chandeliers mixed with other white props. The color is echoed by the products for sale below.
The final image here is from a boutique and features puffs of yarn. If you look closely, you’ll see that the yarn balls are repeated on the strands all the way down, about every 6 inches or so. It gives more volume to the hanging without taking up more space. And if you look for garden ideas, you’ll see a similar technique applied to vertical gardening. There’s one with air plants tied every few inches to fishing lines, or poles with a small potted plant placed every few inches. Like this display, when you put together a group of such lines or poles, you have drama.
Horizontal Wreath
This can also hang above a Christmas tree, acting as a more elaborate tree star. If you do that, you’ll want to have plenty of whichever wreath you use displayed for sale nearby.
Ladders (?!) Are Hot
The ladder to the far right stands in as a Christmas tree, complete with a tree topper and ornaments. This could work well in an area where you want to set a tone, but where traffic needs to keep flowing, since it isn’t practical as a shopping display.
That’s certainly not the case with the pin to the near right. Buckets are inserted between the braces, allowing stores to stock any small items they wish.
And the display below went even further with shopability. By adding thick planks of wood on the steps and braces, you can gain an inexpensive and stylish shelving unit. Just be sure employees understand it needs to be emptied before moving it, or you’re likely to have a mess.
The Ornament Dress
You could create a hanging basket with evergreen branches and this type of ornament display for a high-margin decorative items. It would look spectacular on your customers’ front porches when it’s too cold to otherwise enjoy.
Crate Trees
The white tree is an easy one to mimic for garden retailers. The crates are all standard shipping size, and all painted a uniform white. To keep the crates stable, the first layer is a level platform.
To the right is a more sophisticated version. Notice it has three coordinating colors to give the display depth. It also has crates of many sizes.
There are a few different interpretations you can do with this concept. You can attach the crates to a wall, which would take up less space and perhaps invite more shopping. Another approach would be to use chalkboard paint with holiday messages written on the visible edges. That way the crates can be reused throughout the year without repainting.
Hula Hoops!
Birch Magic
Hopefully, you’re already stocking individual birch trunks for sale at a healthy margin. But even if you aren’t, there’s a lot you can do with them in your store displays.
Take a look at the Marie Belle store window to the far right. It uses the birch trunks in a straightforward way. They’re mimicking their natural role, helping the display look as if you stumbled across it in the woods.
Take a look at how Proven Winners used birch in its summer trade show booth. It suspended the logs from the ceiling, creating a wall screen.
You can put your own twist on the trend. Lay them flat and tie them together for a rough table top, or add glass to level things out. Suspend four logs, add notches so you can add shelves, for a vertical display unit. Or take a fat lot and display miniature plants and fairy garden items.
Another Way To Use Your Window Props
A Natural Fashionista
The basic concept can be seen in the pin to the left: evergreen boughs placed in a way to look like a dress.
The pin to the right takes it one step further, using cloth ribbon or cloth to create a bodice, traditional ribbon as a belt, and ornaments acting as beading to the evergreen skirt.
Retailers can take this even further, of course. Why not flock the branches for a wintry look? Or create a skirt from small wreaths? Or from potted cyclamen attached to a wire mesh under skirt?
It’s a fun way to show off your inventory, and invites more pins to be posted.
Floating Candle Illusion
This idea can work for both Halloween and Christmas. Suspend the fake candles on fishing lines, staggering each ones height, to create a magical effect. Around Halloween, the candles look eerie. With a snowy display, the candles are wintry. Paint them warm, natural hues, and you’ll have a fresh take on a Thanksgiving display.
This idea would be perfect for an outdoor plant area. Instead of using paper towel holders, use weather proof materials like PVC pipes, and outdoor artificial candles.