~Nest Obsessed~: I Love Silhouettes!

Silhouettes have become popular again in the past few years. I have personally been attracted to them as long as I can remember. I love their graphic simplicity. To me, somehow they seem vintage and modern at the same time.

I really like them in mass collections, like this arrangement below from the blog Inside a Black Apple:

Emily Martin's, of (Inside A Black Apple), dreamy bedroom

Silhouettes first became a sought after art form in France in the 1600's with the tools being simple and often easily accessible, a candle, black paper and scissors. It is now somewhat of a lost art.

I decided to try my hand at painting a man and a woman silhouette for our bedroom. I bought inexpensive canvases from the craft store and acrylic paint. I penciled a silhouette shape and painted it black. Easy enough! (If you squint, they could be me and my DH?)

OUR BEDROOM:

At first I hung them with the woman silhouette over the man silhouette but my DH requested a switch. I was surprised he noticed this detail! I think it is important to balance the feminine and masculine details (energy) in a home, so I rehung them. Now they are near each other...on the SAME eye height level, as equals...marital bliss! :)

I have gathered some other silhouette images which are inspiring below...

INSPIRATION PHOTOS: