Style Your Modern Vintage Home is an
inspirational book for all vintage enthusiasts. It
encompasses everything vintage lovers want in one place:
every vintage decade, every practical tip for buying,
styling and restoring your vintage homewares and
achieving your perfectly styled vintage home. With
'real' homes, 'real' people and 'real' affordable items,
this book shows you how you can achieve a stylish
vintage/modern home too. Vintage enthusiasts can see how
these must-have items or styles work in their own home
and how to integrate vintage with modern. Each
chapter covers a decade from the 1920s to the 1990s.
Every chapter introduces the fascinating social history
from that period and how what was going on in the world
influenced the interior homes of that time. The chapters
are divided by sub-sections for the main rooms in the
house, including, living room, bedroom, kitchen, study,
hall and even the garden, showing the must-have items
from for those rooms in each period. There are practical
styling tips, restoration and cleaning tips, and useful
watch out advice for buying vintage pieces. Although
chapters are separated by decade, some styles from
different eras may be used alongside each other and so
there are useful cross references to other
chapters. The final section of the book
includes a useful and accessible treasurebox directory
with the best vintage traders, both in the UK and US, as
well as further reading should you wish to learn more
about the topics covered in this book. Beautiful
lifestyle photography of all of the must-have vintage
pieces and real homes make this a fun, stylish and
contemporary interior design book, but also a
fascinating read to understand the history behind the
pieces in our homes, that all vintage enthusiasts will
want to use time and again when decorating their
homes. There is a Foreword by UK singer and actress,
Paloma Faith, a vintage style icon both in the UK and
US.
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