Incorporating Vintage Decor into your homes

Simple Vintage Treasures.....




Classic early 1970's oak and velvet chair.

Gold Vintage piano trinket box, Era 1960's.

Vintage decor is the wave of the future. Vintage decor can be incorporated into every room of your home, including bathrooms, family rooms, terrace or patio. Incorporating vintage items are an easy, yet affordable way to bring new life in to a house.

Vintage items bring warmth, comfort, history of simpler days gone by. Memories of your childhood, grandparents, best-friends and neighbors. Flat-out, Vintage takes you Back!! Other benefits are developing a sense of style as unique as your personality.

So how do you incorporate Vintage in your everyday life and home? Mix and match items, decorations, art, furniture and fixtures of different eras. You can create an eclectic mix of decor by mixing couches or tables from the 50's, 60's or 70's with modern fixtures, or use a an old travel truck as a coffee table. Old travel trunks are great & can double as space savers for books, movies, pillows. Top the tables with vintage candle holders or vases. You can add free-standing bookshelves to store books, nicknack's. You can also place vintage shelves on the wall for wine glasses. Of if you already have new furniture, but want to incorporate vintage decor into your home, just stop by your local antique shop where you can purchase bathroom fixtures, towel racks, vanities, glass door knobs, door bells, pottery, dresser handles, frames, etc., And don't forget to visit your local thrift shops, there are many treasures there too.

Art, whether contemporary or Vintage should be enjoyed, admired and appreciated. One man decided to hire a painter to paint a Mureil of one of his favorite childhood memories on one of the family room walls. The Mureil reflected him, as a 7 year old boy, running down the meadows of his beloved farm home, complete with the barn in the distance that he cherished as a young child.

Other vintage lovers, simply happened into this field as a result of necessity. As one famous Tiki artist puts it.."I was in college, and struggling to make ends meet, and didn't have extra money to furnish my new apartment.........so I went out to thrift shops to buy my furniture...to my surprise, I found a really cool purple couch and vintage coffee table....my friends always commented on my unique sense of style....and chicks loved my furniture....the cool set of vintage, retro stuff literally acted as a "chick magnet", he continued........."Indeed I became popular among friends & girls for my cool sense of style".........."Needless to say, that was over 25 years ago, and I still haven't parted with my vintage couch and tables......and I have expanded my collection ever since"!

Finally, mixing the old with the new creates an eclectic, unique look impossible to duplicate, yet makes a beautiful statement of your individuality. Indeed, friends and family will enjoy your unique sense of style for years to come. Further, incorporating Vintage treasures is one of the most simple, yet inexpensive ways to contribute to a green planet and save the earth's precious resources.

If anyone has any ideas about vintage decorating, please send the stories & pictures to me........

Peace........Zee