Ideas for decorating with hats

Straw hats have become a timeless staple for many and a closet staple, from the more traditional Provençal design to the eye-catching XL hats, wide-brimmed designs, screen-shaped silhouettes and other designs such as the panama.

Straw hats began to be used by travelers and hunters to protect themselves from the sun and rain. They were made using the strands or palms collected from the fields, a resistant, economical and fresh material for its texture and color for the summer.

But even though their main function is sun protection, we also use them as an accessory and complement to our looks.

In this post, we will show you how to get the most out of this complement by using it as a decorative element to decorate spaces, as well as the different possibilities that exist when it comes to its placement and other elements to be able to combine it. Let's go with it!

Strategic points

This is the most common, simple and effective way to decorate with straw hats: choose a strategic support point such as a door knob or the corner of a mirror in a room and simply hang it there.

Wall racks

The entrance is the natural habitat for this complement and the most common way to decorate this room with hats is to place them on coat racks, either horizontal or vertical.

In addition, in this particular room they look perfect on stools, using the hat in combination with bags or scarves that generate that entrance atmosphere when opening the door.

In any case, the coat rack is not exclusive to this room, it can also be placed on a headboard or in any corner of the house.

If what we want is to create an interesting focal point, either in this area of the house or in any other, the ideal is to gather several hats as a set, combined with baskets and place them on a vertical wall rack with multiple hooks.

Playing with sizes and shapes, mixing different shades of colors or creating contrasts with the materials of which the coat rack is composed are different ways to create small sets of hats to decorate a wall.

Floor racks

Another option to decorate with straw hats is to use floor hangers of the type, shape or color that we like, creating an infinite number of combinations.

Overlay

The hats are perfect when placed separately, but another way to give them that touch of style is to try overlapping them, placing them on top of each other and hiding the structure that anchors them to the wall.

Occupying the entire wall

If what we want is to focus on a specific wall, another original way to decorate with straw hats, is to use them as a repetitive element along it, giving it character and more prominence, making our room create a unique identity.

With clamps

Another original and economical idea to decorate a wall is to use string or thread, and, with the help of tweezers, hook our straw hats to create this union that resembles a garland.

Sometimes, we do not find an element that allows us to be original when decorating a certain space where we want to hold a wedding, a celebration, a special date, or simply surprise our guests.

In this sense, straw hats are ideal to use this technique and create a unique space with which to set an event.

Creative orientations

The way the hats are placed will give us different sensations depending on how they are placed.

In this sense, when decorating with straw hats, in addition to the most common orientation which is horizontal, we can place the hats vertically, ideal for walls at the back of a hallway or areas where we have a half partition that we can not think how to dress.

Another way to decorate with a few hats is to place them at different levels, either in a triangular or zigzag shape. Or use just one hat and give it all the prominence by placing it in a unique way as a picture, without overlapping elements.

As you can see, a lot of options to decorate a wall in an economical and tremendously decorative way, especially for styles such as Mediterranean, rustic chic or tropical where natural materials shine in all their splendor. Enjoy them!