Today I’m highlighting teapots and how they can add a special touch to your home.
They are not just for drinking tea, but look charming displayed in your home. I use small teapots and large ones of all different shapes and sizes.
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I love keeping a silver tea service sitting out even if I am not using it. Teapots can be used in cabinets with glass doors, on shelves, really any where. I often leave a teapot sitting out on my table with a stack of dishes that look like I’m about to have a party. That works until someone comes over and asks where her tea and cookies are. Then I’m grabbing stuff from my freezer, looking for anything I could possibly serve with tea. Actually if I am completely caught off guard, I pull out cinnamon bread, toast it, then top it with butter, a little more cinnamon and honey. Really you can’t go wrong with that! If you have some fruit, even better.
See these macarons below? We made them. Yes with our own little hands, and with the help of my friend Therese. She lived in France, and showed Evie and me how to make them. They were delicious too! This display below would be pretty on your table, even without the macarons.
There are so many pretty teapots! This one below is a chintz one.
Of course I love silver ones too.
And this set below is so pretty. Can you believe I gave it away in a giveaway a long time ago?
This teapot is a Christofle one I found at the flea market in Paris. It’s a favorite of mine.
Below I have a set of chocolate pots. They are not teapots, but close enough, right?
This teapot I found at an estate sale. I found out after I bought it that it does not hold water any more due to a crack, but it’s so pretty, and hand-painted so I kept it.
Well that’s a good assortment of teapots. Do you collect them? I finally stopped collecting them, but have a true affinity for them. When we downsize, I am going to have so many things to sell, including teapots.
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I have always loved teapots. The represent a slower paced time when we didn’t have everything “to go”! Loved the tour.
Teapots! My 88 year “young” mother has a lot of teapots stored away. I will show her this post! Thanks!
I love a silver teapot!
Anita, like you I love teapots. This weekend I must get out my silver set and polish it. I do love silver pieces. It’s time to set them out for this autumn season. Thanks for the inspiration. Linda
My mothers family is from England, so having afternoon tea has always been a part of our lives. Each year my parents would winterize with us staying in our garage apartment. When my daughters were young they would come home from school and go straight up to the apartment for “tea” or what the others kids would call “an after school snack”.
Those are lovely! Thank you for sharing! I have a few myself but haven’t thought about decorating with them.
I have been trying to find a silver service. With value of the Silver market up folks are snatching up all the silver pieces too! Sigh…well what goes must come down (eventually lol).
So pretty and inviting! I’ve just stopped drinking coffee and am truly enjoying to explore different teas and TEAPOTS!
Love the teapots. Would you consider teaching us how to make macaroons?
Anita, I keep our silver tray and silver cream and sugar out year round on our ‘coffee station’…and I love and collect vintage and antique teapots. They are so pretty. Art from another era that are useful as well! Thank you for the ideas. Mine are all packed away until our move in 3 weeks, but after that, teapots will be everywhere!
Teapots remind me of my Grandmother and Mom. I usually don’t keep my siiver pieces out because they seem to tarnish.
How do you deal with that? Have you ever had any of your pieces re-dipped? Do you recommend that?
Enjoyed the post.
Thanks,
Nancy
When my mom passed three years ago she left a stainless steel teapot set. It is still up in the air who will get to cherish this. I have always hoped it will come my way. I love it. Thanks for sharing such pretty ones. Have a great weekend.
I love our collection of tea pots, the silver ones are my favorite, I do own a couple of tea pots, but I’m always on the hunt for pretty silver tea pots, I love using them to add flowers to them…..
Have a wonderful weekend~
Maritza
I have several stowed away. Yours are set out in such lovely displays. I think I’ll dig around in my china closet and see if I have any that would work with my fall decorating.
I love teapots! My two daughters and I all have several.
I love my silver teapot I purchased from CHF! (and beautiful silver water pitcher and tray). I move it from room to room to set on a book stack, or on a silver tray, etc. It’s so pretty with flowers !
I thought you would enjoy seeing your goodies Ginger! They look spectacular in your home.
Love hand painted teapots.
I love teapots too and have a few. I absolutely love your chintz one. I have a chintz cream and sugar but alas no teapot. I really have no room for another teapot but if I found one that went with my chintz cream and sugar I would get rid of something in my China cabinet to make room for that teapot.
I love those chocolate pots. Its hard to find them.
I’ve been collecting China teacups/saucers for about 35 years. They fill built in shelving in our dining room. In more recent years, have added about a dozen teapots. When our granddaughters come to visit, they select which teapot & teacups we will use for our Fancy Tea Party.
Beautiful, you gave me some ideas! And thanks for links!
Your teapots are beautiful. You are talented decorator. I love visiting your blog and look forward to new posts.
I have several teapots but the special one belonged to my great grandmother.
Love this!! So beautiful!!
Lovely pics and teapots . Let me know if you ever have a giveaway for the Christofle?
I love teapots and have a few from my childhood that my mother placed on shelves in my room as a little girl. I got to keep them and still have them now! Thank you for giving your viewers the option to shop for some interesting teapots in this post as well. You have me thinking about displaying my teapots with a fresh outlook. Thanks!
I collect teapots and tea cups. One of my favorite tea sets is a white teapot trimmed in black with 2 black Siamese cats with blue eyes. It reminds me of the cats in the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp. I still do tea parties with my 18 year old granddaughter and 14 year old grandson. My adult son and 22 year old grandson love my tea I make for them. I also have my grandfather’s tea post a a cup and saucer from my little Hawaiian grandmas tea cup collection.
My mother collected tea pots. When she passed away our family was devastated. My sister and I gave each of her 6 granddaughters one of her teapots. We cherish them because we think of her and our tea parties. Tea time will always be a part of our lives.
i love silver tea sets. My mother sold her’s at a yard sale thinking I didn’t want it. My soul hurts every time I think of it…..
Love teapots…from the old cracked one that belonged to my husband’s grandmother to an black iron one given to me by my late sister. I also have a child’s silver set give by that same sister. A very special one is a Portmerion one exactly like you show…I hand carried it from London on our last trip there some twenty years ago. Each one of my collection brings back wonderful memories….
You have inspired me to get out my mother’s silver service and display it. I love teapots.
This post really caught my attention and warmed my heart! Tea is a daily part of my life. Tea parties with friends are always so heartwarming. When it comes to teapots, tea cups, and all that goes with them I’ve been collecting since I was 18 yrs old (that’s a lot of of tea posts 🙂 Most are displayed in my great-grandmother’s breakfront cabinet that she always kept her Flow Blue china in. my decorating talents are few and far between, so I love seeing what you share. I think I will go put some tea pots and cups out today … I’m inspired!
Love Tea Pots too! I have a lovely old silver service that sits on my buffet all year. Lots are tucked into my china cabinet and curios as well . I also like old cups and saucers. Going to try to work them into my Holiday decor. Have any ideas for that??
I collect tea pots & tea cups. I use them and my daughter & I have even had a full tea party for 40 women & a few children. It was a joy to serve a proper tea for the ladies. A friend downsized her home later on & gave me a full silver Tea Set, along with some Irish & English cups/saucers/plates. Such joy! We create such wonderful memories with simple tea, and we occasionally add the extra goodies. Thank you for posting such lovely pictures and creating such beautiful ideas.
I love tea pots and the ones i have came from some special people that are in heaven today. When i use them i think of those special women in my life, This was a lovely post.
I have probably at least a dozen teapots. Tea is my number one of things in life I can’t live without. It calms me and makes me stop and relax my soul and get a second wind. I have them all out where I can look at them and choose the one my mood suits. Yours looks just lovely. Good for you keeping it out.
I love tea pots something so beautiful about them.
Teapots grace almost every room of my house. I love the sculptural interest the different shapes and sizes give to vignettes I create. I love that they remind me to slow down and enjoy simple pleasures. During cold weather, the first thirty minutes after I arrive home from work are spent with a lovely cup of tea in front of the fire. Thanks for sharing such lovely examples of incorporating teapots into our decorating. You never fail to inspire.
I also love teapots and have several and I have my Mother’s silver coffee and tea set, my problem is I never quite know how to display them. I am going to try just setting them out and see what I come up with. I look forward to your posts, very inspiring! My Mother loved collecting antiques and was always going to sales, I have a teapot that she bought at a sale and when showing it to me she would say now that is a goodie! My daughter and I always have to laugh when I get it out, she was such a joy to be around!
I love a nice cup of tea from a beautiful teapot… Steeped of course.. I don’t have a cozy but the dish towel works ok.. I love the different tea cups as well.. There are so many and there all beautiful.. I’m new to your site and liking it very much..
I love china and teapots! I also have a collection of teapots! I love taking tea and the slower pace of enjoying a cuppa tea.
I love teapots and china! I love decorating as well with. Enjoyed a cuppa tea with your book! Thank you!
I’m happy to see someone else likes to decorate with teapots. My 60+ pots are all over the house. I admit to 60+, but not the exact amount, because it would be embarassing
I’m in love with tea accessories, too! The dragonfly pot is beautiful. Was it a recent acquisition and would you share where you got it??? TY.
Just click on the photo Barbara, and there is buying info.
I particularly enjoy hosting afternoon teas for friends and family, so naturally I collect teapots, tea cups & saucers, tea accouterments, and tea-related books. Teapots are displayed on shelves in the library and family room, kitchen cupboard, and guest rooms. I am at the ready any time for ‘tea time’ by stocking scone pre-mixed dry ingredients, home-made strawberry jam, heavy whipping cream, and a jar of imported Double Devon Cream (World Market) in the refrigerator. It takes just a few minutes to add cream and cut in butter to prepare a batch of warm-from-the oven scones and steep a delicious pot of loose-leaf tea. So easy… ‘tea time’ any time!
I particularly enjoy hosting afternoon teas for friends and family, so naturally I collect teapots, tea cups & saucers, tea accouterments, and tea-related books. Teapots are displayed on shelves in the library and family room, kitchen cupboard, and guest rooms. I am at the ready any time for ‘tea time’ by stocking scone pre-mixed dry ingredients, home-made strawberry jam, heavy whipping cream, and a jar of imported Double Devon Cream (World Market) in the refrigerator. It takes just a few minutes to add cream and cut in butter to prepare a batch of warm-from-the oven scones and steep a delicious pot of loose-leaf tea. So easy… ‘tea time’ any time!
I, like you, collected teapots which had to find new homes with our downsize. However, I LOVE chintz and kept ALL of my chintz which goes on display for the spring and summer seasons in my husband’s grandmothers’s china cabinet. I really didn’t think about my affinity for tea cups and saucers until a recent guest remarked, “So, you collect tea cups?” To which I realized that I had 7 sets (cup & saucer) displayed on shelves in our guestroom!! There’s just something special about a cup of tea served in a beautiful tea cup and saucer, and even better when poured from a lovely teapot. 🙂
Teapots! The MORE the prettier and better to enjoy?
Thank you for sharing!
I, too, love teapots, and I really love your idea of keeping a setting ready for an impromptu visitor!
The teapots you have shown remind me of ones I used to collect. I could kick myself for giving away my silver tea service when I was young and crazy. Probably thought it too much work to keep it polished!
Oeeeee! ALL so lovely! i WANT the Chintz teapot! So beautiful! I also a little obsessed with pretty teapots!
Thanks for sharing yours and your ideas!
Lots of Blessings for you and your beautiful family!
Kind regards
Hanniki
I enjoyed seeing all of your teapots and tea service sets! I started collecting teapots when we were stationed in Okinawa, Japan and I learned about drinking green tea! What a great post, with so many beautiful teapots – thanks for sharing!
Love this and your fabulous teapots! Love decorating ideas for them and having it ready for a visit! I now have something new to search for as I go shopping and hot antique stores 😉
I no longer collect them, but I have saved all that I did collect. My favorites were gifts from my husband and children. My son makes pottery and those are most treasured – they will be his again someday. Like you, I have all of them as part of my decor, sprinkled throughout the house. Enjoyed your story and the toasted raisin bread tip.
Dear Anita,
This would be a crazy-long reply if I commented on everything I admire on your blog! So, I’ll just say today that I love all that you do! Your blog is surely my fave!
Love the teapots. Makes me want to get out mine and show them off.
I for one did not know that I was collecting tea pots. I had two for many years and then one day I found a Puff the Magic Dragon teapot. Along the way, I had bragged about said teapot as it was really cute. I told my daughter and son as well as my best friend. I guess in my excitement, they all decided that I was collecting teapots. After five years of Christmases and birthdays, I had to sadly inform them that I really didn’t collect teapots (sigh) and that I had no more room for any more. There are now more than 35 and they were all disappointed as they thought they had found a way to make buying for me easy. LOL! No way. You have a super collection too. (yes, mine has been dubbed a collection as well).
That’s funny Gloria!!
I am new to your blog and excited I found it! My love for french decor comes from my childhood and have several pieces I proudly display! I am anxious to what you will share.
Thank you Paula and welcome!!!
I only have a couple of teapots, but I love the look of them. Thank you so much for sharing and for the chance to win your giveaway.
I love teapots
I have collected many teapots thru the years! They are truly works of art in usable form. I keep some of mine on display in my dining room breakfront but now thanks to this blog article you have inspired me to take the rest out of the garage storage and arrange them on the dining table similar to the suggestions here– the table has been looking too bare these days & I couldn’t figure out what to do! I cannot wait to finally bring out the pots again on display where they belong! What a fabulous post and I and my teapots thank you!
Oh, this post makes me want to collect teapots! They are beautiful. I have a problem with dishes anyway.
I love the teapots! Its wonderful to decorate with functional pieces. Yours are beautiful!
it is always a pleasure to stop by for a visit. Biggest hugs and thank you for the giveaway opportunity. My giveaway season has begun. I hope you will stop by and enter mine as well. xo
I love this post and love the dragonfly picture! Can you share where you bought it or the name of the print? Much thanks!
Here Mary Lou. But I think I am sold out. http://shop.cedarhillfarmhouse.com/products/framed-prints-of-insects-and-florals-set-of-6?variant=18974742471
I have quit collecting as well, but I love every one of my teapots. I have also discovered a love of hot tea, which is even more inviting when served from a beautiful vessel!
Enjoyed your teapots!! I collect pretty tea cups but have a few teapots also.
Thanks for repeating this since I wasn’t subscribing in 2016. I loved seeing all the beautiful teapots together in one article. I never thought about collecting them but I’m sure thinking about it now.
Downsizing to our Cottage Home, I am left with one Teapot. I now realize it’s time to do some flea marketing. Thanks for the inspiration.
My family is British Canadian – therefor when I was a young girl my birthday gifts were Eng. teacups (most girls at that time were also give teacup showers when they married. )I still have all of mine, tho aside from a few Graduation Teas I haven’t gotten to use them that often anymore.
Teapots, tea sets are great thrift finds…and yours look wonderful! The white flowers set off the colors nicely. Your afternoon tea looks the best!!!!!!!!
Have you seen the hanging bird feeders made with tea cups/saucers? Such a helpful way to use a chipped set in the garden or patio.
Hi! I love teapots. Between collecting them in my travels, friends giving me them for occasions and clients from my salon, I have an excess of over 200 teapots. I use them all the time for decoration and I loved your ideas and pretty displays. I especially liked the one about setting the teapot on some plates so that it looks like you are ready to have a tea party. It’s always time for a tea party. Thank YOU for your great blog.
Thanks Darlene, I agree it’s always time for tea!!!
I loved seeing your teapots. Reminds me I have a child size silver tea set I will have to get out to display.
Thank you for the beautiful teapot display suggestions and those photos. Oh my, though I am wondering how to best display China so my kitties won’t be tempted. Back to my coffee and your articles.
Oh kitties, you have a challenge on your hands Linda.
Over the years I have come to really love teapots. The more vintage, the better. I have a silver tea set (real silver, too!) that my mother gave to me years ago. I love polishing it and using it to grace my dresser, as that is my ode to all things French.
I am finally learning to bake macarons – just in time for my only grandaughter’s 7th birthday. You have inspired me to retrieve my collection of teapots which have been in storage way too long. They will add a lovely ambiance to the party. Thank you for sharing your beautiful teapots!
I have my Mothers teapots and teacups! Some are so delicate you can almost see thru them! Your photos are lovely, thank you for sharing them@
Teapots are a symbol of being mindful and of reflection. Very civilized and beautiful. Would you share the macaroon recipe? Always showing a meaning for order with beauty, thank you Anita?
Love teapots as well and typically have them all out everywhere. lol Mine are packed too for a move. I miss them being out terribly. Thanks for sharing. Yours are lovely.
Years ago I started a tea pot collection and bought one at each city I traveled to. Now that I am unable to travel as much, it is wonderful to be reminded of those special memories by my lovely tea pots
Thank you for sharing your teapots. I love to decorate with teapots, teacups and books. Give me a cup of tea and a mystery book and I am content. A little chocolate too!
Tea, a mystery book and chocolate? Oh Laura, that’s my love language.
I work at an English cottage style tearoom. Love the teapots!!! Especially the one from Paris!!!
I don’t actively search for teapots and teacups anymore because I have more than enough now. Of course, I kept all of them and still love seeing them. Your post reminds me to display them in some different ways so I can enjoy them anew. Good ideas…
I love teapots. They are such a joy just looking at them It is a good thing I do not have the space for all I want. I am downsizing and I would need a new room just to display them.
Love your collection. I have my Mom’s and it’s a treasure. I used it at my B&B years ago. I just thought lasthat week about looking for more…
Love tea pots!! I have several just sitting in the cabinet…. maybe I’ll pull a few out and display after seeing your ideas!! Thanks so much for the encouragement to actually pull them out and enjoy them!!! Your awesome !
Love your teapots! I only have one, but I have several teacups and have a pinterest board devoted to the lovely things. This post makes me want to find more!
I have hundreds of teapots, because I have lots of friends that have given them to me. I also have some that I’ve purchased from places we’ve visited. I’m now at the point of giving some of them away. Two of my friends think I need an intervention. Ha! Ha! They told me to take pictures of them so that I will always have them —but it’s not the same. Yes, they take up space over the cabinets in the kitchen, buffet hutch, on top of pieces of furniture, and in the guest bedroom. I love them all because of all the memories. I love the shapes, colors and I too have a few that are cracked or unusable. Just like me and my friends. I still keep them. It’s a fun collection that will always be special. Thank YOU for sharing your great decorating ideas.
Darlene, that is funny! I love all of the teapots too. I’ve sold and given away a lot, so my collection is much smaller now.
LOL – um, my entire basement and two huge china cabinets hold teapot and teacups. Seriously, I probably own at least 50 teapots and hundreds of teacups. All of them are antique.
I have issues. I just returned from Victoria, BC and didn’t buy one. I was being so good.
Tea accoutrements are definitive weakness in life. Some prefer gems, others purses, shoes or new clothes – give me fine antique china and I am always good to go. : – )
Lovely post!
I sure miss blogging, really do need to get back to doing posts again.
Michele, ha! You win the prize for most teapots!!
Two Saturdays ago my husband found seven different shapes and sizes of silver tea pots, creamer, and sugar holders for $10.00 at a Goodwill. Yes, we bought them. They are just as fabulous as yours. Thank you for sharing yours.
Ivory, you are my hero!! I’m so impressed. Wow is all I can say!!
Gosh, this brought back memories of having dinner with my grandmother. She always had a teapot at the table and she drank tea everyday. I don’t have any teapots, but I would love to have at least one.
I love teapots as well and yours are beautiful! I recently wrote a post on creating a flower arrangement in a silver teapot..hope you enjoy reading it!
https://happyhautehome.com/2018/06/04/silver-teapot-flower-arrangement/