Today at the peak of fashion old things. Of course, not spoiled, torn and unsuitable, but those that are well preserved, remained still high quality and stylish. Vintage is a word, translated from French meaning "old wine stored in the cellar". So began to call the style in the design of clothes and interior design. Vintage style in the interior today is unusually popular. The vintage things that have been preserved from the times of our grandmothers, like wine, whose taste is only improving, every year they find great valueThey begin to treat them with great respect and even with some trepidation, and the room decorated with them is so original that causes admiration for many people.
Do not mix antiques and vintage. In the first case, these are original vintage items, and in the second - things can be created.
Choosing a vintage interior for your apartment, you will add her comfort, comfort, heat. In such a home, it will not want to beat the dishes and scream, it will be filled with a special pacifying energy. After all, as you know, the interior affects our consciousness, behavior.
The main features of the style of vintage
Vintage things are furniture and interior items, which is more than 20 years. But most of all the interior in the style of Vintage loves the things of the 20-30s of the 20th century, then such materials as plastic and synthetics have not yet been distributed.
Vintage style in the interior is an underlined old man and unique things.
Tip: Do not use modern decoration Materials and designs (laminate, linoleum, stretch ceiling) To create a vintage room, they are able to spoil the entire charm of such an interior; It is allowed to use modern materials Provided that they will be artificially aged.
Mix the following style features Vintage:
- using fragile furniture (chests, shells, buffets);
- saturation of the interior with various decorative objects of the past (vases, candlesticks, boxes), they must be integer;
- color palette - gentle pastel shades, floral prints;
- natural materials in the decoration of walls, ceiling, floors; It is impossible to use synthetics and plastic;
- puttering negligence in the interior (abandoned on the back of the chair Plaid, photographs in the aged frame, high outdoor and small table vases - all this is uniform, without any principle, but does not create chaos, such "order" looks naturally).
Wallpaper
Color - the basis of any interior. Vintage is in pastel colors, but there are saturated interiors, which is achieved through the use of a special type of wallpaper.
For wallpaper in style, vintage is characterized by patterned ornaments (flowers, intertwing branches). Vintage wallpaper looks as if they were slightly fed from time to time. Such covers for walls are three types:
- wallpapers with a contrast pattern in the style of Modern, in addition to them;
- wallpaper with bright Japanese motifs, in such a material, the background is saturated color, and it depicts birds or flowers;
- wallpaper with small or large careless pattern, weathered in pastel colors.
In the room decorated in the style of Vintage, wallpaper it is customary to shit all the walls, but the eye should be rushed, first of all, atmosphere, not wallpaper.
Ceiling
Vintage ceilings are painted, covered with whitewash or wicked with wallpaper. Special charm interior gives cracks and light irregularities on the surface. The stucco is often used in vintage style.
Floor
As an outdoor coating in residential rooms Use parquet or leave a simple milking floor.
Bathroom or kitchen can be decorated with a stylized under ancient floor tiles.
Furniture for vintage room
All furniture must be made of natural materials (wood, forged, copper, brass), combined with unusual fabrics. These must be objects "with history." Small scratches, chips, scuffs only give the highlight to the vintage interior.
Furniture in the vintage room must be placed symmetrically. Put two chairs, place a sofa between them, near the seats - two identical bedside tables with the same lamps or two floor lamps, a long coffee table - near the sofa, such an environment visually extends the room, pastel shades Enlarge the area of \u200b\u200bthe room.
Vintage loves a large number of accessories (photos in frames, ceramic figures, candlesticks, mirrors, shelves).
Tip: Choose a monophonic light wallpaper if you plan to decorate the room with a large number of accessories, on the background of bright contrast walls, the decor is simply lost.
Color Palette Style Vintage
Vintage - light and air style. He does not like dark and bright tones. Color range - ash, pearl, lavender, beige tones, colors of young greenery or ash rose, as well as their shades.
Decorate walls pink wallpaper, and as a upholstery for furniture or facades of cabinets, use the color of the color of young grass, sky-blue color or color of the ash rose; Such a spring interior will fill the room with fresh energy.
Vintage textiles
All style textiles Vintage must be made of natural materials (cotton, silk, sither, bosje, flax) pleasant pastel shades.
Tip: So that the room does not merge into a single spot, play on the contrast, decorate the walls with light or in small flower with wallpaper, and textiles choose with a large pattern of more brighter tones, and, on the contrary, with one-photo textiles, combine the wallpapers on which large bright colors are located.
Vintage - Romantic style, warm and cozy. It is not necessary to be completely vintage room, you can simply arrange separate accents. But the style of vintage does not combine with high-tech styles, minimalism and oriental style.
- Imitation ancient epochs
- Medieval style directions
- Baroque - the brightest style of the Middle Ages
- Rococo Chippendal - Style Direction of the XVIII century
- Features of Georgian style
The lack times when the purchase of each piece of furniture or an accessory to decorate the apartment was considered great luck, long ago passed, and today everyone can equip his home in full compliance with the desired style. Someone prefers minimalism, not a launching apartment with excessive details, and someone wants to create an original and individual interior in the house, which is replete with unusual elements and antiques.
Antiques are a great tool for creating vintage style. For many years now, it is also used by designers, and apartment owners.
Antiques are eXTRAUS TOOL To create an old style. For several decades, it is already eagerly used both designers and owners of apartments. But in order to correctly choose the necessary interior items, it is required to consider which vintage style directions are used today for the arrangement of modern houses.
Imitation ancient epochs
There are several vintage styles in which it is practically impossible to use original antique samples that are usually the necessary component of such interiors. We are talking about ancient Greek, Egyptian and Roman styles. All in a small number of preserved antiques, which was used in everyday life, living in those distant times are museum exhibits.
Figure 1. Egyptian style in the interior provides for the predominance of geometric forms, as well as natural themes.
To recreate the data style solutions, Furniture objects and accessories, imitating rarities are used. In European countries, where vintage styles are a fairly popular design direction, such things are found quite often.
What are the ancient styles characterized? If we talk about Egypt, it is all sorts of geometrically right figures With the predominance of cubic forms, smooth polished surfaces, numerous bas-reliefs with natural themes. In addition, the ancient Egyptian direction characterize papyrus, mosaic, interior elements from marble or inlaid metals. Excellent accessories with hieroglyphs and enamels will look. Stylized vases, figurines and even palm trees will help to recreate the spirit of an ancient country. An example of this interior is as follows (Fig. 1).
When creating an ancient Greek style, it is necessary to use constructively simple, but ergonomic, very elegant, with many unusual decorations furniture. As is known from the descriptions, the ancient Greeks used very beautiful furniturewhich was often made of mahogany, had inlaid and finishing marble and gold. Despite the seeming simplicity of designs, such elements give the interior sophistication and originality.
Figure 2. Roman style uses rich paintings and accessories, various mosaics, plaster.
Also, the Greek style characterizes the following details:
- light tissue tissues;
- marble sculptures and figurines;
- many ceramic products with stylized Greek pattern: vessels, vases and amphors;
- floors from natural stone or his imitation;
- classic columns;
- bas reliefs.
The ceiling in this interior can be decorated with fresco or stretch design with photo printing under the mural.
The Roman vintage style originates in Greece, so the effect of Hellenism was widely reflected. Despite this, the Roman style direction is inherent and completely unique elements. For example, bronze furniture, which could only use the elite of society. Also harmoniously will look and furniture from wood, iron or marble.
For the recreation of the spirit Ancient Rome Various mosaics, painted plaster, complex rich paintings and accessories encrusted with gold, silver and other metals are applied. In order to characterize this style direction, you can use only 2 words - antiquity and brutality, where the luxurious interior items are hidden behind the strong walls of the building (Fig. 2).
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Medieval style directions
Laconic and rude romance style How no other is able to convey the spirit of the Middle Ages.
When using this style, the design of the room is usually performed in dark (red, brown, green and black) tones, but the gray-white finish will be fit.
There is a large number of direct lines (both horizontal and vertical), the presence of knight attributes - torches, coat of arms, weapons. Walls can be decorated with geometric or vegetable patterns, decorative windows or frescoes. It is often used by monophonic plaster - beige or yellow-brown.
Figure 3. In the romance style, wooden furniture decorated with coarse threads and wrought details will be perfect.
The ceiling must have the appearance of the arch, while its color must fully fit the color of the walls. To give the ceiling decorativeness, it can be decorated with a fresco or rest rudely executed backups. The floor is facing ceramic tiles under stone or natural stone.
Furniture items play a huge role when reconstructing the medieval spirit. They, like everyone else in these rooms, should be massive and quite primitive. Wooden furniture, decorated with rough thread and wrought details will be perfect. It is undesirable to use any upholstered furniture, the exception of something can serve only the bed. An example of a romance style is shown in Fig.3.
Byzantine style is associated with luxury. This style direction continues an ancient Roman style, which causes the use of large amounts of textiles and woven upholsters in decorating interiors. Ideal if the fabrics are decorated with rich embroidery with geometric or vegetable patterns. Garmoniously fit into the design of the furniture and paintings inlaid by metals and paintings on religious topics.
The best colors of the finishes of the premises when performing them in the Byzantine style will become golden, red, yellow, indigo or purple.
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Baroque - the brightest style of the Middle Ages
Figure 4. The main elements of the Baroque style are the use of expensive marble finishes for fireplaces and the use of removable covers for upholstered furniture.
The same colors are characterized by another medieval style - baroque, which includes many new interior elements that appeared at the end of the Renaissance. First of all, these are twisted legs, adorning massive furniture, high backs, which gave the chairs of the throne, armrests, rich and heavy curtains, chic tapestries.
The main attributes of this antique style are the use of expensive marble finishes for fireplaces and the use of removable covers for upholstered furniture. Typically covers were made of lightweight natural fabrics - lace and silk. Furniture items should be made of expensive wood breeds - cedar, red or ebony.
A little later, elements such as candelabras and outdoor clock were included in the baroque style. Together with them, the interior will greatly decorate expensive furniture with a variety of decorative elements: tissue, thread or ornaments. Recreation of the Baroque style, it must be remembered that here the furniture should be not so many life objects as elements of collectibles, and accessories should create an original and lush decor. The baroque example is presented in Fig.4.
Apartment design
The expression Vintage (Vintage) occurred in France, where local winemakers called them a wine with many years of exposure. Later, this expression gothes in many areas of art, such as music, fashion and design. Vintage style will like them to people who like olden, it is a very elegant and original style. Abroad, the designers succumbed to the influence of the style of Vintage, which began to regularly visit the sale in order to buy ancient furniture, textiles, dishes and other components of the interior elements. Any things that will help with their own species or form create a "Retro" aura in the interior belong to the direction of "Vintage".
If you apply all these items correctly, you can make an elegant vintage style in the interior.
What is "vintage"?
Vintage - this is a kind of referral that provides the opportunity combinations of vintage and modern Objects in harmony. Old objects, as a rule, include those who are more than twenty years. They will be the highlight of the interior. In order for your room's decoration, it looks like a vintage style in the interior, you need to know the fashion of the various decades. Accessories and furniture items must be not just old, but clearly declare about the period or fame of the firm that produced them.
Items produced up to the sixties already relate to retro style, And those that are not over 15 years old - to new. What was produced in the interval between these years, rightfully refers to the vintage style. However, the age of items can not always say about their "vintage". Furniture interiors and accessories, reflecting the vintage direction, are obliged to be original original, some kind of real works of art, which reflect the trends of the fashion of their era.
Of course, the vintage direction is much harmonious, warmer and more cozy than the interior created and resistant to modern styles. But it is important in a similar style - not to overdo it, so that your home (room) does not like the museum to view the vintage things collected by you, the main thing in the apartment interior is a comfortable stay.
The more items you put in the room, the more in it must be ease, emptiness and less color. Best option - This is a design in the vintage style of just one room (for example, a cabinet, bedroom or living room), or apply single elements of the interior in the vintage style in all rooms of the apartment.
Vintage style furniture
The use of vintage furniture as a prestigious decor in the decor of the apartment will create a luxurious atmosphere of the past years. Such furniture always possesses the past and soul. Furniture is required to be withstanding in natural non-screaming colors: either a light tree or dark. If bright paint is used, it is necessarily muffled with scuffs, through which the texture of the tree is viewed or slightly distinguishable inscriptions.
Sometimes Vintage style furniture is specially aged, leaving small losses, small scratches and defects from wood bugs. As decorative finish Apply brass or carved linings. Vintage furniture can be consciously simplified, exquisitely rude. To give wooden furniture of a darkened view from time to time, specially produce gross processing, leaving traces from bitch and roughness.
For a bedroom, a wrought, openwork or massive bed, dresser is suitable for the bedroom. Chairs I. soft furniture It is obliged to have soft inserts. A servant with beautiful dishes will fit into the dining area.
Vintage style furniture
Vintage style in the interior. Accessories
To correctly complete the image of the premises of the vintage direction, you need to add various decor elements (accessories). For example, a chest, porcelain figurines, a mirror with aged frame, a candelabra, a heavy chandelier, a variety of lace outlets, caskets and vases. The vintage items in the room can be a little, sometimes quite just a Zingerian sewing machine, a cast iron iron or porcelain doll. 
Mandatory accessories complex for vintage style is toys, textiles, dishes, lace and embroidery. The original effect can create ancient household appliances - gramophone, television and radio reception. The atmosphere of the past era can create an old family black and white snapshots placed on the wall or famous past posters.
An important place in the vintage room is occupied by textiles: drapery, furniture upholstery, curtains,. Vegetable motifs are often found in the tissue decor. Vintage style fabrics should be only natural species (cotton, silk, flax). Carpet on the floor, preferably handmade.
Choosing an ornament for textiles. The main thing is not to overload the interior of the room. As a result, the ornament should be taken into account: let's say on the wallpaper it is bright (by the way, read our article - how to choose), then it is better to take more simple and easy on textile; If the painting of the walls are monophonic, then the ornament can be thick and saturated.
An integral accessory of Styles Vintage is: garden flowers and field, large bouquets and small, seasonal or dried flowers. Component bouquet can be played with contrast: picking up a galvanized, crystal or metal vase to a bouquet. The main thing is that the flowers themselves look careless, as if they were brewed by the wind. If you use dryweights, the vases are better replaced by wicker baskets and turn on a little extra decor: lizards, butterflies, and other unusual items.
All compositions are required to impress ease, simplicity and chance. The use of the mirror will introduce elegance and rigor to the interior in a vintage style.
You can place a mirror in any room (and bathroom), you can apply it as a single vintage element of the room, and it will still give the room with harmony and perfectly fit into the created interior. Vintage mirror is an item decorated in a variety of wooden frames with an original carved pattern.
Vintage dishes: sugar bowls, dishes, plates, milk and trays have a sophisticated chic. They perfectly complement any interior of your room (living room,) and ask tone for the whole style.
Another highly important accessory of the vintage direction are paintings written in canvas. Such canvas will certainly complement your interior and enters the exclusive atmosphere of comfort and comfort. With the help of modern technologies, you can apply to the canvas modern photos And any image you like, pre-giving it the features of the antiquity.
Where to find vintage items?
Before spending money on the purchase of vintage things, look into the chunge of your grandmother. There, with a lot of probability, you can find a chest of drawers that will decorate your bedroom. An old massive table with carved legs is suitable for the office. Ancient household objects can be an original element for the interior, living room or kitchens: a cast-iron kettle or iron, a spinning bed, samovar, dishes, etc.
Old books, toys (dolls), and small sculptures, which can also be found among those who do not need things, can give your interior vintage style. Stalin's things look more unusual than the objects of the eight-toy era. Be sure to visit private sales and flea markets in search of vintage items. Some people in search of old things are not afraid to visit and landfills. You can also buy things in antique shops, but the cost of them is not cheap there.
If you still decide to prefer the style of the style of Vintage, then you will definitely notice that there are no strict rules in it, almost everything will depend on your imagination. Your Vintage Apartment will become an exclusive and not similar to one another in this direction.
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Soft pastel shades, vintage flax and cotton, gentle sitheria, old, painted in several layers Furniture with obvious scuffers - the main ingredients of the cocktail called "Shebbi Chic", but the fact is that SEbbi is not quite vintage as such !!! Let's deal with the differences of the concepts of Vintage and Shebbi
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The term "Shabby Chic", having a literal translation from English, can be interpreted as "felling elegance". He was introduced into the use of the American magazine "World of Interiors" in the 1980s
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The historical roots of the style go to the spacious country houses In the old good England, with their modest cozy interiors, where the sofas are in a slightly linyal sortshots, the vintage paintings hang, and roses are fragrant in the garden. For several decades, elements of French Chateau, Tuscan villas and Mediterranean houses of Greece were added to these attributes of measured English country life.
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The main task when making the interior in the style of Shebbi Chic is the creation of a relaxed and slightly negligent atmosphere, which is achieved with vintage or artificially made up furniture, natural fabrics and many small and cute hearts that store memories of romantic times
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Shebbi Chic is rather style, not a fashion, here you can safely mix era and invoices to achieve a common mood. He gives new life Old things, taking them as they are, with all cracks and scuffs.
"Shebbie Shik" is very romantic and feminine - lace pillows and porcelain with robes, gypsum angels and marble boxes are allowed.
With a lot of risk, make the house with a different "romantic trash" for the joy of Granny, modern interiors in the style of Shebbi Shik do not look overloaded. On the contrary, there are a lot of air, light and ease
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Designers learned to combine modern details, such as chrome-plated kitchen gadgets, with such vintage accents, like weathered wooden shelves and drawers.
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Happens when in a minimalist interior, with clear lines and strict color gamut Suddenly, a colorful table or chair appears, which, at first glance, do not fit into the room, but they bring in the room the character, comfort and light note of nostalgia
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In the interior in the style of "Shebbi Chic" relevant will be the modeling (or its imitation), covered with wallboards wall, colorful wallpaper or textured positive walls. Flooring, as a rule, wooden, even in the kitchen.
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To recreate such an atmosphere in the house, you can choose modern lighting, instruments and finishing materials and combine them with a battered time. wooden furniture or coarse plaster on the walls.
Be it a simple wooden table and unassuming chairs or vintage comedomes on elegant legs, the main thing is to scoff, cracks and wood, breaking through the thickness of the times and layers of paint
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Often this effect is created in completely new furniture. In order to give its furniture new clothes in the style of Shebbi Chic, you can cover the piece of furniture with light matte paint neutral tone (about color palette Slightly below), then wipe the edges of sandpaper. If the layer of paint is quite thick, you can use a hammer or a spatula to split the pieces of the coating here and there
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In the placement of furniture, the main emphasis is on comfort and the opportunity will relax and chat with friends. Chairs, chairs and sofas here in honor and abundance, they are ready at any time to take into their textile-mortar arms of tired city inhabitants
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You can use vintage chandeliers with glass beads or crystal as ceiling lights. Wall sconces and romantic night lights will also fit into the interior in such a style.
Shebbi chic is rich in shades of neutral and pastel tones. The most popular is the color egg shell, dairy-white, grayish-beige, color of unbleached canvas, sand, pale blue and pale pink, as well as warm light gray color.
From textiles - natural fabrics of the same neutral soft tones: unbleached flax, cotton, sitheria, lace and burlap
Illustrations with sites: Sharaby Chic, The Gifts of Life, Berengia, House to Home, Elle.es, Trouvais, Jenneliserose, Bespoke-Bride, Skonahem, Lavender and Ash, Pinterest.
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From the theory of styles: The vintage nature of the interior acquires when it appears from the end of the twentieth century, symbolizing the earned era. Harmonious combination modern and old things clearly reflects the connection of times and allows you to look at obsolete items like a fashion style
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Vintage In the interior is not limited to antique exhibits. This is also a decoration of the room with natural materials.
Ceilings should be natural. No drywall and stretch designs! Welcoming stucco at the junction of the ceiling and walls. Cracks and irregularities only add an old note
Pay special attention to the floor. It should also be from natural materials. Laminate, linoleum or carpet only spoil the overall picture of the vintage interior. But cracks, scuffs and chips on the parquet or tile will only increase the effect of antiquity
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You can use artificially organized parquet of handmade with patina imitation. True, it will cost more.
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Another important feature of the vintage style is an underlined symmetry, both in the layout and in the decor, as well as patterned or floral wallpaper
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Vintage belligelligers carry incredibly many historical information and emotions. The constituted drawing and rubbing makes a lot of riddles and excite the imagination. Modern interior directions are more concise
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And on their background, the vintage interior looks overloaded with all sorts of details. The main thing is to create an equilibrium between the main mood and comfort of the interior. It is important to find an equal ratio of parts and spaces. The more details in the interior, the easier and the air should be space. 
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And remember an important rule without antique antique things or their tempts imitation, scuffs, compilation and patin Vintage interior can not be exactly
And you know that the most important thing in the vintage style is his absence as such. This is just a mixture of styles, consonant with your personality. The only thing is that they are united - the harmonious embedding of the aged items in modern interior
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But the apartment is an example of a real vintage style: an antiquarian owner of Buenos Aires, pay attention - here the spirit of the real, not new-fashioned antiques hoves in every corner of the interiors:
Choosing the style of vintage - you, above all, choose your own style. Good luck in man-made !!!
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