Antique home design ideas

Antique home design  ideas can be easy to implement with the right type of furniture. Make wooden furniture your first choice and add accents with traditional style upholstery. An antique style can be highlighted with the use of particular types of furniture such as rocking chairs and foot stools. Add a rustic touch with basic benches and side tables that show the grain of the wood. Consider a roll-top desk before any other more modern type and a matching stool instead of an adjustable chair that runs on wheels.   

As more people have less disposable income they are less likely to spend what little they do have on objects that have become synonymous with our throw away culture. Instead they are looking to the past, a time when things were made to last, durable, and had a real value that was appreciated through the generations. Our new found love of antiques is easy to understand, but as many of us now live in modern homes the question is how to incorporate these heirlooms and artefacts seamlessly into our interior design schemes. And where are the best places to shop for antiques?

He does this by mixing his own designs with antiques from different periods and places: A 2,000-year-old Roman capital is near an 18th-century French wine-tasting table. In choosing antiques, Saladino says he first looks for "the simplicity of shape." He says, "I always look for simple geometry. I look for honest surfaces. But sometimes I buy furniture because it's sort of like miniature architecture.

Vintage Home Designs is the product of a labor of love undertaken by Emily Vail, a mother of one and native of north west Ohio.  Emily was inspired to design contemporary home lighting based on classic antique home furnishing styles. Into these designs she poured her passion for art, her love for restoration, and her affection for antiques and all things old.Designed to capture the old-world feeling of Europe desired by the client, this mountain home features a kitchen with antique terra cotta floors from the South of France.

Decorating your home with chic antiques is easy to get into but hard to master. Knowing how to get a plan in place, group particular items together and accentuate certain features of your design will all help you to make the most of your space and adorn it with beautiful antiques.

In this article I will share the top five interior antique decorating tips along with videos for those who are more visual learners. (All videos come from an antique enthusiast on YouTube who also owns a Leesburg Virginia antique store.)

“Antique wood modern chandelier and chair/table.Heavy wood antique furniture with light yellow walls and "lighter" additional furniture and windows,traces of modern time. i love the wood floor that is in contras to the wall,other modern pieces is eclecticism at its best. The abstract artwork, the chrome chandelier and coffee table, and the the knotted wrought iron arm chair contrast beautifully.”