Decorative Clocks: Enhancing the Style of Your Home Decor

By Anne Clarke

Not just going to settle for any clock? Try a decorative clock, one that seems to have been designed especially for you! Decorative clocks are sometimes available at department stores. Among the most popular are wall-hanging clocks, cuckoo clocks and Grandfather clocks.

· Decorative clocks for wall hanging:
You can find a wide variety of home clocks that will add a certain appeal to the décor and style of the place you live in, whether you live in an apartment, a house, a trailer, or whatever! Many people have several wall hanging decorative clocks set up in different rooms of their homes. They are not always round in shape, but they are almost never digital. These decorative clocks can be found in many different designs, shapes, colors and backgrounds. They can be made of materials ranging from plastics to wood to stainless steel etc. Many clocks classified as decorative clocks are more costly than your average clock—and can be harder to find. I have seen decorative clocks in kidney shapes, in strange Picasso-like shapes, etc. Decorative clocks with black and burgundy modern designs are especially popular decorative clocks (which are also my personal favorite), but such modern stylistic designs of decorative clocks are available in many tones and colors. Sometimes you can find the best hanging decorative clocks in stores that specialize in decorative clocks.

· Kids decorative clocks:
Kids home clocks can come in plain, circular shapes, square shapes or more modern shapes, with popular designs for kids rooms, such as Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck clocks. They can add a lot of personality to your childs bedroom and they do not have to cost a lot of money. There are even digital alarm clocks designed especially for kids.

· Teenagers decorative clocks.
Teenagers home clocks come in many shapes as well, and are designed especially for teenagers with the more in-style designs for that age group, for example: football designs or horses or dancers.

· Grandfather clocks
Some of the most sought after and enviable decorative clocks around are Grandfather clocks. Some are antique and some are newer, but the style of Grandfather clocks is usually about the same. Time is kept by a clock face above a long, cabinet-like base with certain, almost antiquated features.

· Cuckoo Clocks
Similar to Grandfather clocks, Cuckoo clocks are decorative clocks sometimes bought as antiques and sometimes bought new. My mother loves German cuckoo clocks, she has purchased them twice in Germany—to be shipped home in the mail stamped FRAGILE. One of them has little German dancers in their hats and lederhosen that dance around the clock, just below the clock face, as her treasured decorative clock chimes the hour.

Anne Clarke writes numerous articles for websites on gardening, parenting, fashion, and home decor. Her background includes teaching and gardening. For more of her articles on home decor ideas please visit Decorative Clocks.
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Novel Ideas for Decorating With Wall Clocks

By Joey Lewitin

Anyone can hang a wall clock. All you need is a nail, some space, and occasionally a beam. However when you start to truly contemplate the possibilities, you begin to understand that even in this seemingly simple task there is a huge potential for creativity.

Lines and Rows
The simple method is to choose a bare looking wall, and simply place the clock in its center. While this is of course effective, it doesn’t take into account the rest of the elements in the room. The clock is a part of the whole, and as such can and should coordinate with other objects to create an overall impression.

One way to integrate your clock into the rest of the room is to align it with other decorative objects. Wall items such as mirrors, posters, or artwork, can be placed on a virtual horizon to create a linear arrangement. This way instead of a group of isolated items, you get a single integrated look.

Getting a little fancier, these virtual lines can run not only left to right, but up and down. This has the added benefit of creating virtual height in a space. Lines can also run diagonally, although if you overuse this technique you can get a space which is unbalanced. Always be certain to use diagonal wall arrangements tastefully, and to use plenty of linear stations to complete the falling line.

Multiple Clock Arrangements
In lieu of placing your timepiece in an arrangement with other items, it is often desirable to create an array entirely from a variety of clocks. This has the advantage of instantly matching, both stylistically, as well as with the synchronization that comes from matching their motor ticks to one another.

Wall clocks can easily be arranged in rows as with other items, and lines of two or three clocks can be placed horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Patterns can also be designed, such as a hanging diamond formation, or a star. When the clock hands are properly synchronized, this can create an impressive effect.

When decorating with groups of clocks, their various colors and styles can be used to further enhance the decorative scheme. If you have a trio of clocks, you can place emphasis on any of them by choosing one which is a slightly different, albeit matching color, from the other two. Making the center clock different will focus attention on the display, while doing this to one of the end clocks will focus peoples eyes beyond, in the direction of the different clock.

Shape can also be coordinated in wall clocks, with squares matched to diamonds, and circle shaped clocks bordering squares. There are also multicolored clocks which are available, that will have a unique display of color throughout its surface. These used in conjunction can create a truly unique display.

Often we overlook the wall clock as little more than a utility, a structure designed to serve its stated purpose in as unobtrusive a way as possible. Even when we go one step further and decide to display an impressive, novel, or attractive clock, usually we just hang it from any spare wall, an isolated piece neither adding to nor subtracting from the total appearance of the space. However, with a little imagination, you can integrate your wall clocks into your existing wall décor, and make it a part of the overall decorative scheme. Even further, you can use wall clocks themselves as a room’s style, displaying a synchronized display of your own decorative style.

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