Style your home with vintage odds and ends
November 20, 2009 by Admin
If you’re eager for a bit of a household purge this spring, there’s no need to get too bin-bag happy, in fact lots of your ‘junk’ can be given a fresh purpose and a new lease of life. Tara Gardner offers a few quick and easy tips.
Whether you’re trawling the local junk shop, or doing a bit of a clear out, it’s worth having a careful think about the items in front of you, as they always have plenty of hidden potential.
Vintage sugar bowl for your vanity
I was recently given a beautiful Thirties cut-glass sugar bowl by my mother. It was so pretty that rather than hide it away in a kitchen cupboard for a special occasion, I thought I’d make the most of it and add it to my vanity table display. I now keep anything in it from make-up pads and hair-pins, to brooches, and buttons.
Some fab ideas here – I especially love the one about using old jars as display items and as an inveterate hoarder of buttons I can get to combine these into it too.