11 Ways to Make Your Living Space Look Antique and Vintage
There’s nothing as fulfilling as having to decorate your living space with what you love. Be it vintage, contemporary, or classic decor, the key is planning and starting small.
You can recreate your home and make it vintage if you have the right information at hand.
For that reason, in this article, I’ll share all things antique, vintage, and unique.
Read on to the end to learn how you can incorporate these ideas into your home to achieve the desired character, visual balance, and timelessness.
1. Sourcing and Selecting Objects
The first step to creating a vintage home is finding objects that aren’t just old but rare; you can easily source these objects with little price tags to them.
However, it shouldn’t be all about the cost; always look out for craftsmanship.
Additionally, the vintage elements don’t need to have brand names attached, as long as they fit into your design perfectly.
When you use unique objects that are hard to find, you’ll effortlessly upscale the antique quality of the space you’re decorating.
When you find the right elements, you’ll know because antique objects scream weird and unique the loudest.
That said, ensure that the items you source for are to your taste so that you don’t go back on them in time to come.
For further assistance, you can work with trusted dealers or reputable antique vendors to supply original elements; and ensure that whatever you buy is truly antique.
I recommend that you think of different things when vintage shopping; scale, color palette, feel, and uniqueness.
Make sure you get the real deal.
2. Visual Balance
Realizing that antique and vintage pieces don’t necessarily need to be the room’s centerpiece is the most important step to achieving your dream style.
Always try to balance the old and new stuff; never go crazy with either of the two.
Creating an antique look for your home is mostly about knowing the proportion of the old and new elements to use so they don’t overwhelm the room.
Also, knowing where to strategically place these items is an added advantage.
If it’s of any help, I’d prefer limiting the antique pieces so that they don’t dominate the entire space and ruin the outcome.
3. Mix! Mix!! Mix!!!
Yu can mix items in different forms, color palettes, periods, shapes, and designs as long as you keep the rules of proportions and scales in check.
In other words, mix and match contrasting items but try not to go overboard with it.
The aim of creating a vintage design in your home is to add softness and limit the strictness of a room.
4. Add Architectural Touch
Making your home look vintage and antique doesn’t mean you’ll have to recreate the whole house. That can be impossible if you don’t have the necessary finances to buy large antique decorations or enough space to keep them in your home.
However notwithstanding, you can add antique touches to your home with little details like changing your existing hardware.
That includes things like the doorknobs, handles, and pools; so, whether you have a small home or a large one, you add vintage details for a unique and appealing feeling.
5. Vintage Furniture
Furniture is a great way to define the design of choice in your home; you can take a peek into a house and instantly tell its decor just by looking at the furniture.
What better to decorate a vintage home than getting the ideal set of furniture?
A statement piece such as a vintage farmhouse table, a bleached oak, or a painted tuscan carved sideboard will do the job perfectly.
Additionally, you can use a serpentine chest fruit wood or stripped pine armoire to define the look.
I’ll recommend spicing the overall aesthetics with a bit of character using smaller pieces like accent tables, chairs, ottomans, bed heads, leather trunks, upholstered benches, or English longhouse clocks.
6. Art and Mirrors
Art options such as oil portraits, botanical engravings, handmade woven tapestries, and guilt frames can add poise and character to your modern furniture, better enhancing the vintage and antique decor.
Furthermore, you can incorporate baroque-style guilt mirrors with speckled glass to make the space more eye-catchy.
The logic behind combining antique detailing with ultra modern pieces is what makes up the basis for most Perusian designs.
7. Objects and Accessories
The minor details such as accessories and little objects greatly impact how the room feels and its overall quality.
You can make a room antique by adding the right set of elements in the right proportion.
For example, you can place stuff like old leather-bound books, binoculars, mannequins, busts, family heirlooms, and old leather boots at strategic points in your home to make it look vintage.
8. Light Sources
Stunning antique chandeliers or a pair of crystal wall sconces can create the magic in your home.
Using handmade table lamps can style modern bedsides in a contemporary and vintage way. It doesn’t end there; try using vintage candle holders, candle sticks, and lanterns to create a unique aesthetics especially when they’re positioned correctly. You can group the items on your buffet table or mantle piece.
9. Materials and Textiles
Nothing adds value to a home than using the right textiles and materials for decorations. You can incorporate vintage sheets as covers for your sofas and armchairs.
The good thing about that is, you can change the sheets at any time you decide.
10. Flooring
Wide rustic timber planks, vintage tiles, or French oak Versailles panels do the magic of transforming an ordinary home into a vintage signature.
Moving on, vintage rugs are state-of-the-art when it comes to achieving an antique style; you can pair a vintage rug with modern flooring to create an old-world charm.
11. Outdoor Space
To complete the dream vintage decor of your choice, try using the right garden benches for the outside space.
Other elements such as vintage bird cages, aged concrete statues, and aged stoned water fountain helps to elaborate the overall antique magic.
