What exactly is the vintage style? It is about old furniture or accessories but at the same time they have a modern finish that has been manipulated later. Many times the term vintage or retro is used interchangeably to refer to the same type of furniture, but although both are based on the past, there is a small nuance between them: while vintage usually alludes to older styles baroque, retro is based on forms that would be close to pop-art, colorful and with straight lines.
Vintage is a very striking style when it comes to decorating because it allows you to create a groundbreaking fusion of styles. Which has a charming visual effect? Thus, it is a type of decoration based on contrast: you can have your house decorated in a current style and suddenly innovate with an armchair, a bureau or another type of antique furniture that breaks with the visual harmony of the environment.
Salvage old furniture
- A great advantage of vintage is that it can be cheaper than we think. Surely someone in your family keeps an old piece of furniture somewhere, well, if so, don’t hesitate to go for it and offer it a better life with some restoration touches, such as reupholstering it with more current fabrics while conserving the structure.
- If you can’t rescue any family furniture, in antique shops you can also find unique pieces at a good price. In addition, the markets and flea markets are a perfect place to find this type of pieces, an example of this is the flea market in Madrid or “Ells enchants veils” in Barcelona, as well as the small shops that you can find in some of the streets of these two cities. If you are one of those who like to shop from home, don’t miss out on all the furniture that Portobello Street offers you in its virtual catalogue.
Transfer the vintage to other elements of the home
- Not only can we create a very chic environment by mixing old furniture with the most avant-garde, but we can also play with other decoration elements such as lamps, vases, rugs, kitchenware, etc. Take a look at what Babia offers you.
- A very flattering detail for this type of environment is to put papers on the walls inspired by the seventies. The web papelesdelos70 is possibly one of the sites where there is a greater offer and variety of them. Take a look and you will be surprised how you can change an environment with a single gesture.
- Definitely, our apartment can very easily be beautiful in an eclectic way, halfway between the past and the future, between the barrack and the avant-garde, between the modern and the old, between yesterday and today.
