Like me, I bet you’ve got stashes of handed-down silver hanging out in your cupboards, taking up precious space. Am I right?!

Well, let me give you some ideas to use silver pieces in your home and I bet your grandmother will be (happily) surprised!

Use a silver water pitcher as a vase. This water pitcher came from my Moma and Dadoo’s  200 year old farmhouse in Lewisburg, WV. I’m sure it served lots of water in its day and now it’s perfect as a vase.

I just dropped in one of those flower frogs, added water and then start arranging flowers. Voila!  Old pitcher turned into a beautiful vase!

Use silver on your coffee bar. A pedestal bowl is perfect to hold coffee filters and a creamer pitcher to hold spoons. I even found a silver ladle that’s great to measure out my coffee.

Side note here, my grandmother Mimi was a huge coffee drinker and always had this silver creamer on her kitchen table. It’s monogrammed with a “C” for Clark which is also my married initial, so it’s meant to be!

Silver ladle is perfect for measuring coffee

Use silver trays under your plants. Adding a silver tray under your pots will ensure that if you happen to over water, your table won’t be ruined. I’m sure this never happens to you, but it happens to me. ALL. THE. TIME.

There I admit it. I’m the worse when it comes to watering and killing plants. The only plants I  manage to keep alive are African violets and I think it just so happens my dining room window is the perfect spot. The two tricks I’ve found are to keep them in filtered light and to always add water underneath the leaves.

Round silver tray

Love the detail on old silver

Use silver cups to hold stuff at your sink. Honestly when my mother-in-law gave me her silver punch bowl with 24 gazillion cups I was like, what on earth do I do with these? Well, the cups are actually quite adorable so I use them to hold stuff that’s kind of unsightly, like my pot scrubber.

Look how much cuter it is in a silver cup.

Use silver to decorate your mantel. Use your silver bowls as an accent piece on your mantel. Here I laid a silver bowl on its side to add another layer and texture to the chalkboard, mirror and wreath.

I love how silver adds texture and a bit of shine

Use silver to hold bath essentials. This silver tray has one of those dome lids that I removed and now use to wrangle containers of cotton balls and ear swabbies in the bathroom. It just kind of elevates cotton balls and q-tips, doesn’t it?

Use a silver pot to hold cooking utensils. Honestly, I’m not sure what this silver container was originally used for, but somehow it ended up without its lid. It’s perfect for holding cooking tools and measuring spoons next to my stove.

Do you happen to know what this kind of silver container was used for (it had kind of a domed top)? Also do you use your grandma’s silver in different ways? I’d love to hear about it, please let me know in the comments below.