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I am sorting out and putting up my chevrons and want to make a really nice display wall which doesn't look chaotic. I want to know where things are, and have everything in its place. I want to have my nicest ones on the wall, and a 'hidden stash' of others that I am not so hot on, but people may ask for (thin blacks, bright colours etc.) I do not want customers to touch, but me guide and remove chevrons.

I have chevrons from Lion, Larson and Centrado - which are all different sizes. I have some nice sets. I have lots of basics that are not in sets.

I had originally liked the idea of an 'ombre' wall, starting from blacks and graduating to different colours and breaking up sets. Like these random screen shots.

I like these where they all touch: But a gap may be more practical with the different size chevrons?
However my husband thinks they are overwhelming. He thinks profiles are more important and keeping sets and families together, regardless of colour.

I am unsure!

I have things in sets at the moment, and on a couple of spinners, but I find I forget where they are or spend a while searching for the one 'that I know I have here somewhere', that I can't see in front of me. (The spinners are going!)

Is there a general consensus? How do you deal with different sizes? Display by manufacturer, colour, families or profiles? Separate plain from ornate?

Or is it simply all in the eye of the beholder?

Mine were by colour left-right and by size top to bottom, but I kept ranges together. Aluminium was by profile and ornate had its own section but arranged as per the rest. In stock had its own section too and when things got silly I’d offer discount incentives to shift them, that wasn’t easy to kept on top of though.

Half were on a wall behind the counter and half were on a 3 door sliding cabinet, plus the wall behind that; customers could get at the cabinet but not as easily as me.

I liked to keep rows tight but no two suppliers made the same size chevrons and a couple didn’t do reverse mitre samples.

I've heard people suggest to cut all chevrons down to the smallest size, that's the size problem solved. I have blacks whites golds silvers greys browns in blocks of colour as it's easier to find when designing. Many if the more intricate LJ sets I have hung in sets.

So if you both keep/kept ranges together, but also have sorted by colour, I can’t quite visualise that.

For instance, I have the Lion Brompton range which is black, white, grey, taupe, natural with 2 profiles. Would you keep them together, or separate out into the different colours?

I have them together now, but find I forget the black is ‘over there’ when I am looking at the other blacks which are on the spinner.

I don’t think I have explained that very well!

Mouldings sorted by colour would not be part of a range, well, not a distinctive range at least, and even then, if only two or three mouldings from a range ever sold over a long period, that range might get tossed bar those, and they’d join their colour group.

It was all “ish” anyway, I used to keep the most popular stuff, and the stuff I wanted shifted, right behind me, so that area was pretty mixed up. I knew where everything was though and if something got put back in a daft place it would screw things up.

That makes sense, thanks

We group supplier mouldings together and then in family ranges. Mixing it up with brighter colour ranges interspersed among the more muted ones and so on. We don’t overthink it, just make it visually appealing. With a good flow to how it looks, so not bunching too many similar ones together. Move it all around maybe once or twice a year to keep it fresh and change what a customer’s line of sight will most likely fall on as they walk through the door.

Having them in supplier blocks and then family groups makes finding them and putting them back so much easier.

Have never much liked the blocks of colour approach. Each to their own of course but in my opinion it makes it feel less design led and more bargain basement. It’s unusual for us to have mouldings that aren’t part of a specific family range which maybe makes life easier for us. Any that are tend to be tucked down at the base of our boards and are a legacy item.

Only wall that’s different is our hand finished examples, but they are trimmed to the same size as the others and deliberately far more random in how they are displayed.

All our chevrons are trimmed to the same size. Frinton Frames ones are their own size so sit on a different board on a different wall to highlight their individuality.

Thank you