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Glamour with history

How to turn unwanted stuff into a stylish accessory.

Faded paint, scrapes and scratches, marks wood beetles, old plastic dolls, sugar bowl with cracked enamel, porcelain teapot with a broken nose … At first glance all this seems rubbish.But when some designers christened it “things with history” – this was the original style of “vintage” – a moving echo of the past, the style-memory …

Tribute to the old fashion
Vintage, or, as it is called, retro-style – current-day trend in interior fashion.The main attributes of a vintage style – a really old items or things done “antique”, artificially aged.Vintage may also be today, not only furniture, accessories, and finishing materials: wallpaper, fabric, paint, glass, floor coverings, in particular parquet and carpet.

Forgery in the law
One of the most important criteria by which certain pieces of furniture fall into the category of vintage – is recognition. The subject must be associated with a particular era or designer accurately reflect the stylistic trends of his time.
Most often to create a retro interior designers use so-called “replica” – skillfully executed copy-stylization. The Art of Aging things (furniture, paintings, porcelain, carpets) – not today’s creation.Technique of creating beautiful wear and cracks in wood, stone, lacquer, or a colorful layer was worked out for centuries. And what used to be called “copy”, “forgery”, now institutionalized fashion.

Dinner set from the attic
But do not confuse concepts such as vintage and antiques.By tradition, the age of antiques should not be less than 50 years. Vintage, certainly younger. In addition, the need for restoration of antiques price decreases. Vintage, by contrast, welcomed the creative intervention, imagination.
In addition, this antique is worth big money.Perhaps that is why modern designers have responded to the fashion trends and began to create a collection of furniture and objects of “antique”.
Thus, in a vintage interior must be present with lots of drawers chest of drawers, chests, dining table for a large family, metal beds with funny balls on the back, buffet dishes and rack of old family dinner services.It can be both stylized and real objects, found, for example, in suburban attic or bought at the flea market. The most common forms and models of vintage furniture are reproduced from old, sometimes even very well-known models.A special attraction to her chic and attach small scratches, scrapes on the corners, cracked drawings and traces of wood-destroying insects.

Glamour with history

Wear out everything!
Generally, modern technologies allow to wear out almost any material.Artificial rust characteristic greenish raid on bronze, worn stone and glass …
For vintage peculiar combination of natural materials – forged metal, brass, wood, ceramics, flax. Accordingly, and color-selected vintage items and interior is maintained in natural colors. While it sometimes can be seen and quite bright motifs – red, green, blue, orange. But almost always they are muffled “old” rubbing through which reveals the texture of wood or barely readable painting. As for the decor vintage furniture carved use or brass plates.
Speaking of brass. This is one of the most popular vintage materials from it produce a lot of accessories: taps for baths and kitchens, sinks, chandeliers, vases, figurines.

Haute couture bag
Special place in the vintage-interior cover fabric: upholstery, draperies, curtains, blankets, table linens and sleeping. Typically, this lightweight, natural fabrics of cotton, silk, jute and viscose silvery shades, with floral motifs, interpreted on a modern footing decors, introduced in vogue in the 60′s and 70′s of the last century.
Color materials may be bright and juicy. The predominant colors in this case: pink, green, blue, underlined by the color of dried prunes, rock crystal, wet wood and faceted silver, gold and steel “shadows.”
Also on vintage fabrics can be worn different, thinning simulation, and various metal inserts – for this suit coarse cotton, sacking, velvet and even light organza and tulle.

Heel on lacquer
And recently, for lovers of old European designers have invented a new floor covering – aged parquet. Above him “work” as well as on vintage furniture, only to their burrows, add more traces of heels and erode the color of wood.
Good background for a vintage interior and can serve as a parquet board, especially in light color. But if the parquet floor can be covered with a glossy varnish, the parquet vintage-board – just dull, and even better wax.
Original solution the bed on top of the floor homespun or oriental rug, woven “track” in bright multicolored stripes or jute mat.

The luxury of junk
Another interesting trend in the spirit of vintage invented recently, young, innovative designers from London.New tune called “luxury in the style of trash,” or “the luxury of junk.”Monumental spectacular chandeliers made of lenses, tapes from the film or plastic cups, wall heater in the form of a succession of wardrobes hangers, wall-collages of the forgotten, lost letters, postcards and newspaper clippings, floor lamps and ashtrays with legs out of old toys.
This grotesque experiment, the style-an oxymoron easily able to bring in any environment, the game started, the element of surprise and fun.

Back to USSR
Another important sign of style – all kinds of accessories.Nothing helps to create the right atmosphere in the house, as different cute and funny trifle.Retro-style suit sculptures of animals, dolls, plush cloth, or old toys, utensils, lacquer photo frames, old tattered books, records, beaded purses …
Especially among designers in favor items, true to the style of socialist realism and Stalinist era: plastic dolls, porcelain figurines, wooden toy horse, cut-glass cups in metal holders, black disc telephones and typewriters, the huge, tables,covered with green plastic “shelved”, phonographs,black and white photos and stoves …

Rags own hands
By creating an interior or individual items in vintage style can bring their children.Take along toy made of papier-mache and Paint it bright colors, then cover with varnish and soak in the contrasting temperatures – on the lacquered layer cracks will appear, as in the old junk.Sew for the modern dolls vintage dresses in lace, weave straw hats or wreaths of dried flowers.
His hands can do and retro-frame for hours.To do this, the usual wall clocks need to glue on the edges (in frame) newspaper clippings, and then use a brush and black tea, wear out the frame, carefully brushing her tea infusion – of this newspaper turns yellow. As a result, you will receive a spectacular souvenir clocks in a setting of old newspapers!

Dried flowers in a crystal
An integral part of the retro interior – the flowers. Decorators recommend the use of seasonal or Dried flowers. If you love roses, then give preference to low colors, better creamy.When you create compositions from cut flowers you can work on the contrast – to find them crystal vases, metal and even zinc (known to us as household buckets or cans). It is important to look natural bouquet and a bit careless, as if his tousled by the wind.
So it is with dried flowers. Good will wicker and ceramic vases, extra decor in the form of butterflies and berries. All this should look like an accidental and temporary, romantic and simple.

In the shower with lions
But do not make out the entire apartment in the manner of vintage – it will look gaudy.Best in this style to arrange some kind of one of the rooms – office, living room or bedroom.
By the way, nostalgia for the past raised today and bathrooms! In the center – a bath with elegant lines and a necessarily curved legs in the form of lions’ paws.It may be pure white or the color of copper.
If space allows, a bath can be placed in the center of the room, on a low podium. Another option – to move up its close to one of the walls.
The decoration of the bathroom tile is being actively used with decorative retro ornaments and colorful mosaics.At the same time and a continuous wall with the effect of abrasions and scratches, painted in rich colors may not look less decorative, serve as a perfect backdrop for the furniture, textile and other details.
Organically in a bathroom will look real rarity chandelier with crystal pendants, pot flowers (only important to choose plants that are well tolerated in high humidity). And, of course, many bottles and jars of creams and shampoos in the “granny style.

Glamour with history

Guide for Dummies
And you can focus exclusively on any one subject, which will be a highlight of the house, the main object of art, which will set the tone for the rest of the interior.
For example, an old grandmother’s dresser or chest adds comfort in classic bedroom. A worn wooden table with carved legs make any solid cabinet. A remarkable detail of the interior kitchen or living room can become a cast iron iron, kettle, a samovar or a spinning wheel.