How to Decorate with Antiques

Decorating your home with quality antique furniture can fulfills your time, so you can make your living space more unique and comfortable. Antique style is not restricted just for formal rooms and historic homes. Finding new uses of the old things require more labor and patience, but it's worth a try. Knowing how to get each piece on the right place and how to group the items will help to give your home personalized style and special look. If you want to enjoy in a home decorated in antique style follow this simple tips and make your home comfortable place for living.

 

Determine Your Objective - If you want everything to be as it should, then you have to start with a little bit of planing your decoration process with quality antique furniture pieces. The best way to do this is to get paper and pen, write down your thoughts and determine what is the look you want to achieve with antique decor. You have few antiques or you want to buy some new that you will include with your existing home decor? Do you want do decorate entire room or just a part of the room. Figure out your goal so you can know from where to start.

Think About How To Group Antiques Together - If you want do decorate your home with antiques there is one thing you should know - to group quality antique furniture pieces in odd numbers. The reason why you should do this is because odd numbers are more attractive to the eye. Marketers know that, so this is why you will see price such as 4.99 instead of 5 dollars. Also, when it comes to grouping antiques do not crowd them together and do not scatter. And last but not least, stick to the theme of the room you want to decorate. If you have Baroque antiques, try to stick to this style and don't use antiques from other period.

Find Creative Uses For Common Antiques - Decorating your home with quality antique furniture pieces requires creativity and will. So, to achieve what you want you should start think out off the box. Go to some quite place or somewhere where you can set your mind free, for example, go to picnic and free your mind while breathing fresh air. Also, you can sit in front of your computer and search online. You can see what kind of work other people have done with their homes. Here are several useful and creative ideas for antique decor:

• If you have some old poster, you can frame it and hang it on the wall.
• You can organize your dresser with vintage wooden mold.
• Use an antique dump truck for storing your remote controls.
• As kitchen window toppers you can use a vintage apron.

Display Antiques Creativity - There are two ways to display antique creativity in your home. The first way is to use some object to showcase your quality antique furniture pieces. For example, you can use frame, cabinet or cork board. The second way is to attract attention with international lighting. You can use cabinet light, track lighting, small spotlights, chandelier or antique lamp to attract attention to your decorations. Also, you may use special paint colors to complete the decoration.

Do Not Be Afraid To Mix Old With New - You think that your modern decorations will not fit with your antiques? False. There are many reasons why you shouldn't avoid mixing new with old and here are just three of them:

• it adds depth and richness
• it fees you up to start decorating instead of waiting for “right pieces”
• it surpass time periods.

Now, when you know that mixing new with old is maybe not so bad idea, you probably ask yourself how can you do it. Here are few tips:

• Be spontaneous.
• Cover your quality antique furniture with fabric.
• Combine modern object with antique object.
• Use antiques in a contemporary room.

Hope that I helped with these simple tips about how to decorate your home with antiques. If I did, get up and take the job in your hands. Make space for the magic of antique pieces in your home and enjoy at this unique look with your family and friends.