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London Calling
My post today is devoted to the sweet reader of my block Lisa, who asked for my help in decorating her new home to London Vintage Decorating Style.
The favorite and timeless Vintage Decorating Style, is one of the most creative styles that you could choose for your spaces.
Not only for your home but Vintage is an ideal decorating style also for professional spaces that appeal to people with style and fantasy.
Depending on the theme that you want to focus at your Vintage Decorating Style, it will guide you for the colors and the shapes you need to follow.
Let’s see how you can create the vintage style with a focus on London’s details.
Color Palettes
The first thing you need to watch out for is the color gradation of the Londoners ornaments that you choose and especially at the union jack.
The colors should NOT be the “clean” colors such as: fire red, electric blue or white.
Colors in more outdated shades like beige, blue azure or matte burgundy, to help you catch the energy of the vintage feeling.
Fabrics
The fabrics that blend in with this decorating style are the natural linen in earthy shades, fabrics with bicolor stripes and fine quality leathers.
BEETLED NATURAL LINEN CANVAS
This medium weight linen has a slubby texture, but the beetling process has given it smooth and stiff handle, and a subtle lustre
NARROW BLACK STRIPE COTTON TICKING
Traditional cotton mattress ticking with a narrow black stripe and a slightly stiff handle
NATURAL MAROC CHERRY
The finest quality naturally tanned and dyed Goat skin leather.
Windows
For your windows you can choose between curtains, roller or panels by linen fabrics in natural tones.
Walls
For the walls choose 1-2 tons darker shade of the color you used on curtains or add brick even wallpaper with brick design or plaid wallpaper.
You can also make a themed wall, by changing the color to a darker shade and different from the other walls or pasting here the brick wallpaper.
This themed wall can host over some various objects or art with London-based influences.
Furniture
Any piece of furniture with the Union Jack creates a very strong first impression for the space. Dare it!
With London’s Vintage Decorating Style you can wonderfully fit old suitcases or chests that you can use as coffee or side tables.
Lighting
The oldest, the better! This is the secret for lighting in vintage decorating style.
Forget modern fixtures and technologies, visit flea markets and buy cheap lamps from the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Just make sure to refresh the wires if needed and change the old incandescent bulbs with economy leds.
London Calling
VINTAGE SUN-RAY LAMP
The cream painted circular coil base with a pretty wire shade, English circa 1950
1960’s MUSHROOM STANDARD LAMP by GUZZINI
The circular chrome base and fine stem supporting a mushroom coloured perspex shade, all in perfect original condition, Italian circa 1970
ACCESSORIES
Just be creative!
EARLY C20th SHIELD MIRROR
An interesting early C20th mirror in the shape of a shield, formerly the collection of John Hobbs Esq.
COMPACT BRASS UMBRELLA STAND
A small Victorian style divisional umbrella stand, the four brass tubular uprights with turned finials and a cast iron dished base
ANTIQUE PLEATED UNION JACK FLAG CUSHION
A handmade cushion using a panel of an antique union jack flag. The red of the St. Georges cross is still a striking bright red, but the blue has faded to a beautiful steely grey, the flag has been pleated and stitched with matching coloured linen threads, some decorative repairs, some embellishments. The back is a piece of antique French linen dyed darkest grey. The cushion is completely hand stitched, finished with a brass zip.
You can find lovely pieces for Vintage Style Decoration at www.howelondon.com
Good Luck!
xo Elena
