 | Antique, vintage and retro items are so attractive to look at and use. However, due to the changes in interior design and home decorating styles and the move away from cluttered living spaces, towards a more stream-lined and minimal style, the wonderful character of antique, vintage and retro pieces can be over looked. It can seem hard to incorporate older styles with more modern pieces, so this section is dedicated to ideas for using and displaying all your wonderful antique, vintage and retro bits and pieces. \n \n Antique, vintage, retro pieces are ideal for modern parred down interior design and home decorating, for a number of reasons:\n\n- Antique, vintage and retro objects can be picked up relatively cheaply and so you can create a great interior, even on a tight budjet.\n\n- Specific individual antique vintage and retro pieces are found in relatively small numbers, so you can create a design, that is unique to you.\n\n- Antique vintage and retro objects, due to their individual nature, allow you to create and add character to an interior, even when mixing the old with the new - take a look at the picture on the left, the antique Edwardian silver tea pot holding the Roses and the vintage 1930's tin are a wondeful compliment the ultra modern lamp in the background.\n\n- Antique, vintage and retro items allow you to inject colour, texture and form into a space, this is very effective with the minimalist white or neutral backgrounds, that are popular at present.\n\n- Another aspect of interior design and home decor and one that is often overlooked is how a design look will date - a room that looks fantastic and cutting edge when it is completed can quickly look dated. Adding an eclectic selection of objects, art and furniture from different periods, that compliment the overall design, can prevent a design look dated too quickly. The introduction of ojects of different ages into a design, prevents the design from becoming too time specific and so it ages better!\n\n- The addition of a selection of antique, vintage and retro objects can give a more lived in feel to even the sharpest and sleekest design - this is important, because without it, a sleekly designed room can look messy and tatty as soon as you put down your cup of tea, magazine, newspaper or handbag. The act of living in a room must be incorporated into the design and not be something that spoils it, consequently a few well chosen antique, vintage and retro pieces can acheieve this to great effect and save a design!\n\n- Finally, when creating interior or home decorating designs one of the key things that we want to avoid is the design looking too contrived. A more natural look can easily be achieved by introducing an ecelectic selection of antique, retro and vintage pieces to the design. \n \n |
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