Top tips to ‘vintage’ your home in 2010
As vintage obsessives, we’ve all been there: whether it’s spending our last pennies on a beautiful yet broken teacup; impulse buying a lampshade for a lamp we don’t actually own; and cooing over cute wallpaper we couldn’t possibly use on our rented walls, collecting thrift and drift is our forte. But hoarders, fear not, Joanna Thornhill is on hand to offer you some crafty ways you can put your ‘tat’ to work around your house.
If you’re anything like me you fill your house with these beguiling pieces that quite simply serve no purpose other than to incense your boyfriend with the fact you’ve come home with “yet more tat”. But with a bit of clever and crafty planning, many delicious vintage pieces can be repurposed to suit our 21st century needs, as detailed in these top five tips.
Category: Get a vintage home, Interiors
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This is a very lovely feature. I’m inspired by the wall art and the mini plantpot teacups here, which look absolutely gorgeous. I’m not particularly green-fingered, but as there’s no drainage in tea cups you might need to pick your plants carefully, and make sure you don’t over-water.
I have to agree. I’m a renter too and begrudge forking out wads of cash (not that I have wads anyway
) to decorate my landlords house. Lots of lovely tips and hints here. I love the Sat Nav idea!
I use the tins to keep my vintage gloves and fragile handkerchiefs in.
I think I like that wallpaper idea best. I’ll definately have to go find some. Wonderful article!