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Vintage Style Decorating Ideas
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If nostalgia and the scent of baking bread make you feel at
home, Vintage style decorating is for you. Filled with the
bright serenity and childish innocence of a distant memory,
Vintage style decorating revives in us our sense of
tradition and all those wonderful things that turn a house
into a home.
An apron hanging on a metal rack. A cook book resting by a
roll pin and a cloth sack of flour. An antique coffee
grinder by a stack of terry cloth towels. An olden-days
phone by a floral bedspread. Firewood piled high in an old
wooden chest. Like snaps in antique postcards, such vintage
decorating items kindle in us a sense of home, family and
love.
To decorate with vintage style requires a reverence not only
for the past by for its values and traditions. Things where
once more dear, more rare, more valued. And in this vain,
Vintage style decorating seeks to reuse items instead of
throwing them away.
Old buttons can be sewn in a line on an
old terry cloth towel then framed to create vintage style
wall decor. Used sacks of flour can be cut into squares,
each to be dyed in a different hue, then sewed together in a
patchwork for tablecloths or curtains.
Even cleaning items can be used to decorate with
vintage style. Hang an old rug beater on the wall. Keep
baskets of crumpled paper by your hearth. Hang feather
dusters in a cluster from the ceiling. And turn an old hat
stand into a rack for hanging aprons and floral towels.
Grace your living room with Vintage style decorating by
protecting sofa backs and arms with crocheted needlework
woven with patience in a rocking chair by the fire. Display
roses from your garden in antique vases that had once broken
but were glued together again.
Sand old wooden chests down
and paint them with spray paint and floral stencils, then
veneer them with frosted glass paint to create an aged
sheen.
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