Vintage cabinets in the interior
Modern Internet and stationary furniture stores evoke universal boredom with their repetitive assortment and similar models, but still, there is one way to create an original interior. An interesting highlight in your room will be antique furniture, which is sure to bring the atmosphere of another era into the room. If you do not have enough money, then any closet can be aged out on your own, just by using a few tricks.
Antique Furniture
Vintage interior should fit into the overall style of the room, they must have an appropriate environment. Exquisite and beautiful antique wardrobe will surely look very ridiculous among modern furnishings with a stylish design. This will be a real move in the design.It is necessary to think in advance and properly plan your interior.
It is best to start by choosing the style of the whole room. There should be a single concept in all. There are several main areas in the interior where antiques can fit in optimally:
- This style of interior, as historic, perfectly combined with antique furniture. Trying to recreate the era of chic baroque in your own apartment or house, or to convey the restrained style of the classics of antiquity is a difficult but worthy task. You can easily cope with it if you know the main points of this direction. You should know that such a piece of furniture as a wardrobe, always looks different. For example, the luxurious antique style is expressed in the special severity and clarity of lines, and the baroque becomes the embodiment of all the pomp of the theater with its original and fancy decor.
- Antique wardrobe sometimes It becomes relevant to the interior of modern times. This will be a surprise to many. Many creative people choose this style, as not very common boho. It is quite colorful and in its own original.Old Grandma's buffet, inherited by us, can perfectly fit into a free country style.
- Ethnic trends in the interior will appeal to all those who value their roots and honor traditions. It will suit those people who are passionate about the culture of any country. In the colorful Indian interior will look good squat antique wardrobe, made only from natural wood. This is an important condition. Carved furniture will perfectly complement the style of Morocco.
There are also other areas of interior style for which vintage and retro are most appropriate.
Antique furnishings can decorate many rooms. To create an original and beautiful setting, you must follow the following recommendations:
- When choosing a historical style, be sure to adhere to all the correspondences of this era, never have an antique wardrobe and a modern nightstand next to you;
- Often, antique furniture has large dimensions, and if a small cabinet in the room is in the center and occupies a large enough space, then other interior items should be at a minimum so that the room does not look cluttered;
- Antique objects are often distinguished by their original decor, natural material or carving workshop, so it is necessary to provide high-quality lighting in the room so that you can admire all this beauty.
There are different types of antique furniture, and you should find the optimal model for your chosen interior. Consider all the nuances when choosing furniture.
Antique cabinets can be used in many rooms and problems with the design of the rest of the situation basically does not arise.
Kinds
Vintage specimens in the roots are different from modern versions, as the decor, and materials of manufacture. Vintage vintage wardrobe in the room - it is always a separate piece of furniture. Most often, built-in complex structures among antiques you will not find, which is why they must be abandoned.
There are many other interesting and not hackneyed options:
- It is for the bedroom that most fit beautiful wardrobe. This model is designed exclusively for clothing and no longer for any items.There is surely free space in it so that you can conveniently place your clothes on elegant hangers, special departments, and also in drawers.
- Bookcase can be comfortably and appropriately placed in your home office or, for example, a living room. Most often, the size of the sections of such a product is specifically designed to store any and business books, as well as very important papers. This model can have both open shelves, and convenient departments which are closed by doors.
- Dining buffets can be attributed to the furnishing of the kitchen, it is very convenient to store kitchen sets in them. Sometimes various products are also stored inside. Often the upper part of such a cupboard is decorated with glass doors. Behind them you can see the beautifully exposed kitchen sets.
- Sideboard - This is one of the types of furniture for the kitchen. She vaguely resembles an ordinary buffet. The main difference is that the former have no niche between the upper and lower compartments.
- Secretaire It is a special cabinet for papers, equipped with special drawers, additional shelves, as well as an original folding part, which can even replace the dining table.These elements are an integral part of the old furnishings. If you just put a secretary in the room, it will already resemble a refined vintage interior.
- Chest of drawers called one of the varieties of the cabinet, equipped with additional drawers. In the chest can be conveniently stored as your bed linen, and all the folded clothes. There are also kitchen models of drawers.
It is worth noting that many users see vintage furniture as massive, but you can find options that best fit in small rooms.
Ways of aging
It is not necessary to buy antique furniture, which is very expensive. In order to create a unique design of your own interior, you can use standard cabinets of modern production. In the capable hands of an experienced master, they can transform completely and get their second life. There are various ways of how to artificially age furnishings:
- Special construction varnishes, as well as paints having a craquelure effect, will certainly give your interior objects a vintage look. They will be able to visually add age to them.These coatings perfectly imitate the cracked surface characteristic of old objects.
You can buy the necessary product in any store for construction.
- By means of a construction brush the unique effect of a rubbed and rough surface is created. You can make uneven relief grooves. This technique has a complex name - brushing. After pre-treatment, the necessary area is covered with a special varnish with a brush in order to securely secure the result.
- Even ordinary fabric, which can be found in every home, will give the closet an aged look. You must first select textiles, which has the desired pattern. You can beat the cabinet in whole or in part only. The facades covered with fabric look beautiful.
- Instead of the usual fabric sometimes use wallpaper. This material is pasted over any part of the furniture.
Sometimes, to make furniture look vintage you just need to paint it a little. You can also combine this option with other methods suggested earlier. The main assistant in this case is your imagination. She will certainly tell you exactly which direction to move.You just need to use your imagination to get a real masterpiece of your own design.
On how to age the dresser with dyeing technique, see the following video.