Vintage lovers, when decorating your home in this style do not neglect a key element: the lamps. Before discussing them let us review a bit more about the aesthetics so fashionable lately. The vintage takes its inspiration from the decades of 30 and 40. The green, pink, sky blue and white are the colors used for this style.

In different shops and second hand houses you will find a variety of vintage lamps. Here’s a small selection of models. You can choose one you like and add to your home and a delicate touch and old. (more…)

Today we can find an almost infinite variety of furniture dedicated to the baby, for almost any need or combination of needs, but we can make a selection of the most useful or necessary in a baby’s room:

“Obviously the crib.

“A cabinet in which to save the baby’s clothes, bedding for cots, etc.

“A baby changing table. A changing table is just a piece of furniture designed to provide a clear and stable area where diaper our baby. It can be padded or not. The most interesting changing tables are those that have holes to put the different elements used in the process so they are always handy. If you also have drawers can continue to use it when the baby no longer needs diapers for clothing, or anything else.

“A toilet. It is a piece of furniture in an orderly manner that will keep various things related to baby diapers, creams, clothes, toys, etc.. If the changing table with drawers may not be necessary because we can supply toilet function.

“A rocking chair. Although not essential, if they become very interesting to help the baby sleep. Keep in mind that some mini-cribs are also rocking.

-Furniture combined, or combos. This is furniture that combine various utilities and parts for longer life and also encourage savings. For example changers, dressers, changing tables, bath, etc. We must take into account our needs and not be impressed by something new as some of the combinations that simply can not serve us much.

Tips for recognizing if a cabinet has over one hundred years

Acquiring a piece of antique furniture is primarily a contract sign him longevity. Not enough to have the desire to possess. You have to love him for what he is.

This guide aims to advise and warn people buy furniture to be of some value that do not make certain mistakes in their selection.

* The old timbers have all been sawn by hand (not machine). You can discover the mountain blows in the panels on the bottom, below the rim of a table or chair, etc., Representing a jagged surface. Only the visible surface is polished. The backs of old furniture are not polished or varnished.
* The joints are usually dovetail together without using nails or glue, only wooden pegs. The same is true of the heads of bed rails about it. Both cabinets and beds can be easily disassembled and transported.
* Woodworm holes. To verify their authenticity, insert a needle into the hole. If you go straight, deep holes have been forged, since the worms working in sinuous form.
* The brass must be the same style as the furniture. It is very strange time to find them, since most, owning a good gold, were cast in France during the Revolution.
* The fittings are characterized not only by the style of his time, but also for the region. It is very difficult to pinpoint the date because they were worked by hand.
* The marble. Be sure to swipe your finger along the back edge of marble. The antique marble sawn by hand and must striations and rough.

Mixing old and new, we can make a vintage decoration in different environments. A crystal chandelier and chrome accessories, are sufficient to enhance a bathroom, which can alternate in harmony with a double sink and recessed light fittings.

Another example of a bath may contain a sink mounted on a spacious cabinet for storage of cleaning components. In combination with colorful pictures, is the counter, which can be of limestone and ceramics from the floor.

A bathroom cabinet furniture old and crackled, can combine perfectly modern fixtures, offering thus an old but neat appearance.

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With the help of designer Julian Christine from Chicago, he got a create a new bathroom but with an ancient air that not only fits perfectly with the rest of the house, but also has a clean and attractive. The sink is new but seems to have been rescued from the past.

Same with the hexagonal tile floor, but the owners opted for ocher floor and walls, not to be alone with the black and white are often used in bathrooms of time. The neutral color scheme chosen do lighter and brighter. Two walls are covered halfway with panels and other white-tiled rectangular.

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Vintage decoration is the combination of a modern decor with decorative items and vintage accessories. This provides quality and refinement details, which are not possible with modern decor, which we use objects of great quality for an image of good taste.

A small table with an antique vase, located in the bathroom, stylish spaces for storing towels and soaps. They are also appropriate accessories, old bottles, boxes or chests aged, old suitcases, used to decorate furniture or to keep things inside, and adapt perfectly to the vintage decor.

For our accessories can visit antique shops, flea markets, attics or family. We can also use old looking objects, imitations are admitted to the vintage.

Some vintage items are: an old fireplace, which serves as guide to decoration. A modern sofa with antique chairs and an old quilt over the back of the sofa, are a combination vintage. An old wall covered with mirrors of different sizes and shapes, is an example of vintage.

In the kitchen, you can use modern appliances, designed in the past. These appliances are usually expensive. Shelves with old milk bottles, cans of biscuits, chocolates, curtains with old designs. The dishes can be used to complement the decor.

In the bedroom, we can combine an old back to bed with a mattress and modern armor.

The embroidered bedspreads and wooden trunks are appropriate additions to the bed. A modern toilet can environments with some perfume bottles and antique cream. It is vital to maintain a balance between modern and old, to get a good result.

This charming vintage bathroom connects the 19th century with the 21st century through a combination of some old things – or at least old-looking – and some things new home owners want their small master bath reflect the style of the rest of his house, which dates from 1886, Coronado Island, California, to add a touch of vintage charm, the couple included a spider and chrome accessories. Modern conveniences, including double sink and recessed lighting enhance other accessories.

Another vintage style bathroom, also with double sink, on a beautiful piece of furniture that provides abundant storage space for all necessary cleaning wax. The frame colors blend with cream cabinets, ocher tones of limestone countertop and ceramic sand-colored around the shower and bathtub.

This old bathroom, furnished with cabinets reminiscent of old world charm, finished craquelé, which seems degraded by time.

The term Vintage resonates increasingly associated with fashion, decoration and some other areas. But that is exactly?

The essence of vintage style, emphasizes the combination of antiques with more modern styles. It’s about recovering furniture, or appliances which were fashionable and were trend in the past, particularly quality items and pieces that were made in limited quantities or unique, and incorporate recycled and restored a more modern style decorations.

This class of objects, are to be found in markets, often in a deteriorated state with values very affordable, as well as antique shops and high prices.

This does not mean not place any old object in the middle of a modern decor, but requires properly choosing the objects or furniture to match a criteria. For this you need to be clear that intend to give your style environments.

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It began as the vanguard of a little over five years and is already in place in the world of design. Feminine, romantic vintage, shabby chic style is here to stay.

Although their names have a seeming contradiction, the result of combining the shabby (worn, frayed, worn) with chic (elegant, slim, beautiful) is pure harmony and delight the eye. This comfortable style was created by the TV host Rachel Ashwell, who was able to identify factors that are so characteristic of a style that is already a global boom in decoration, in garments, accessories and even design blogs.

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Its success lay in the fashion that prevails today: the economy, creativity, recycling, and the upgrading of the old. The secret of this new style is the sum of several factors.

First, the vintage. Elements used in antique shops, recycled again skated with various techniques for restoration or to achieve a kind of neat worn. The idea is that living together the old with the clarity of the new.

The second factor is the correct selection of vintage styles. Furniture should be wood and wicker, to refer to the country. But it must be combined with petit appartement French style pieces such as chairs and stools reupholstered. Also the gay and elegant art-nouveau, with objects that are made with wrought iron details or crystals.

The colors, shapes and textures
The third component, the pastel colors. The protagonist is white, followed by pink and mint green. Also blue, beige, the butter and smoked range of pallets.

Fourth, the shapes and forms are undisputed French roses, spiders old skater, Provencal frames for paintings and mirrors, plush cushions, panels on the walls, the ends of legs of the Louis XV furniture, and allusions to sweets, the macaroons and cupcakes (small colorful cakes) for the rooms of girls. Other infaltables are the china and earthenware pieces (if the paint is chipped or cracked, much better).

Finally, the textures. Assorted fabrics, from the ethereal tulle to the cleanliness and freshness of the cotton, through a detail of velvet, silk, wool or crumpled taffeta. A key to style is the patchwork or collage of different patches in pastel colors, with patterns of flowers, forming a new fabric finish. Another feature is the detail of hand embroidery or weaving, both lamps and carpets.

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