Euro Display Tree Questions

[Txprowler]

Thanks!!

Here's mine, I need to add a couple more euros but I ran out of mounts

[ThisLadyHunts]

I’m going to be the naysayer here...apologies if I step on any toes.

The tree pictured in the original post looks too much like a hat rack to me. One central pole, the same diameter (mostly) from top to bottom, and too many euros placed too symmetrically from top to bottom. When you look at it, what stands out mostly is the repeating pattern of the euros rather than the euros themselves.

Compare this image to kmack’s image. There is much more drama, there is balance without symmetry that provides far more visual interest(this is a good thing because “nature abhors a perfect line.”)

If you like the verticality and the height in the original image, keep it. But find something that has a couple or three small, stumpy branches on it—something that interrupts your eye as it goes up and down—and then try to avoid using euros with similar characteristics (size, color, treatment, hell, even species). It ruins the “anticipation” your eye experiences when it moves from one unexpected stop to the next.

Again, my apologies if I’ve offended anyone. If the OP’s goal is, in fact, to create a “hat rack” (rather than a statement piece) then please ignore everything I said.

[kmack]

Compare this image to kmack’s image. There is much more drama, there is balance without symmetry that provides far more visual interest(this is a good thing because “nature abhors a perfect line.”)

Ha! Love the critique! Thanks!
To be brutally honest on my design, I put almost no thought into it. The branch of cedar was actually originally for cutting off small slabs that were used in my turkey fan mounts (that's why the branches are cut at angles). I had it self-standing in the garage one day and thought, "Hmmm, that would make a decent euro stand!" The base stand is just a simple "box" built like one of those HD bird house kits put together by a kid; I could have done a lot better, but I was in a hurry to get it completed.

I guess if I had put a lot more thought in the design/process, it would have turned out more "symmetrical"! 😉

[MIHunter]

I’m going to be the naysayer here...apologies if I step on any toes.

The tree pictured in the original post looks too much like a hat rack to me. One central pole, the same diameter (mostly) from top to bottom, and too many euros placed too symmetrically from top to bottom. When you look at it, what stands out mostly is the repeating pattern of the euros rather than the euros themselves.

Compare this image to kmack’s image. There is much more drama, there is balance without symmetry that provides far more visual interest(this is a good thing because “nature abhors a perfect line.”)

If you like the verticality and the height in the original image, keep it. But find something that has a couple or three small, stumpy branches on it—something that interrupts your eye as it goes up and down—and then try to avoid using euros with similar characteristics (size, color, treatment, hell, even species). It ruins the “anticipation” your eye experiences when it moves from one unexpected stop to the next.

Again, my apologies if I’ve offended anyone. If the OP’s goal is, in fact, to create a “hat rack” (rather than a statement piece) then please ignore everything I said.

No toes were stepped on! I appreciate your perspective. That's why I love TBH, you can share thoughts w/o being "offended" or attacked, lol!