In recent years the vintage style became popular not only in design of clothes, but also in registration of interiors. "Vintage" — word French, means "the old wine which was long stored in cellars". As well as mature drink which taste from time only improves the vintage things which have remained since youth of our grandmothers become more and more valuable every year. In this article we will consider vintage style in interior.
Thanks to the fact that vintage objects look not such with what we have got used to see furniture products of the present registration in similar style is considered extraordinary. Products fashionable at the time tell today about tastes and preferences of that time when they have been made. Their forms and character allow to draw conclusions about culture, art and fashion trends of last centuries.
But the reason of popularity of style vintage not only in non-standard of the used furniture. Such registration is deprived of vanity in which the modern person has got used to live. The situation indoors with ancient objects is measured and quiet. People who make out the houses and apartments by means of antiques aspire to it. Even presence of several objects in the normal modern room will already give to interior absolutely other character. But the design sustained in uniform composition will be more harmonious and balanced.
Features of style vintage in interior
Choosing style vintage, it is necessary to know that some modern receptions absolutely here are not suitable for registration of the room. So, for example, it is necessary to refuse false or stretch ceilings, wall panels, laminate, stone or linoleum.
It is difficult to allocate vintage in the direction of design in which everything is always unambiguous and clear. It is not minimalism in which there is no place to decor, and not technological hi-tech with its independent dynamism and submission to equipment and comfort. The vintage is far from traditional classics in which everything is geometrical and correct. It is impossible to place it and in framework of rustic styles, such as country, Provence, chalet.
It is possible to find in it lines of modernist style and baroque, it is a little gothic style and empire style. Shabby - chic, on the contrary, borrows vintage things from ancient styles, the design is thought up by one person, but not era and cultural development. Of course, the vintage has under itself no philosophy as modernist style or classics, but it allows to connect the past and the present, and does this use of beautiful and refined home decoration.
Color palette
The style charm vintage is in many respects connected with special color palette of interior. Here gentle, air colors run the show: shades blue, lilac, pink, beige, brown, purely white. Usually shades in unison approach the basic chosen color: blue is beaten in gray-blue and white colors, different in tone, pink – options lilac, lilac, expressed brown is complemented with gentle coffee and chocolate shades.
Here the natural wood gamma is widely used. At the same time it, as a rule, rather saturated as in production of such furniture always applied only expensive grades of wood. And their shade usually bright and warm. Sofas, chairs, tables, bedside tables and padded stools in style vintage are allocated with the curved, smooth lines and convex forms. Arrangement of furniture is of great importance: in interior the symmetry and paired relationship have to be observed. For example, on each side sofa it is possible to place identical bedside tables and desk lamps, to decorate table or dresser with couple of identical vases or figurines, to symmetrize on wall of picture or panel.
Decor
The question of decorative registration in vintage style needs to think quite much, but not to be overzealous with quantity of objects. The room should not look branch of antique shop — all moderately and with taste, approach business creatively, getting only those objects which will please you, and will not encumber room space.
1. Hang on wall the old watch with cuckoo, put floor or attach on sofa the laconic mechanism in round black frame.
2. Use dried flowers: immortelles, clematis, ears and prickly inflorescences. Deliver couple of vases with dry bouquets on dresser and coffee table.
3. Place series of family photos of different generations, are sure, in the house there will be turned yellow black-and-white pictures.
4. Decorate retro – posters with advertizing of old movies, food, playbills of 50.
5. Sofas can be covered with openwork woolen cover, to spread out several impressive pillows sofa differently, and on floor to lay carpet with geometrical ornament as those which could be hung up on walls earlier.
The vintage can be rather balanced or bright, pacified and extravagant. Everything depends on the nature of the used furniture, its design and time of production. The style vintage is many-sided and various therefore there is always place for experiments and individualism. Such interiors can be simple or magnificent, elegant or kitschy. It is important to remember about sense of proportion, and then the design in style vintage will always be harmonious and comfortable.