Vintage Furniture

What style of vintage furniture should I look for?

Nov 10, 2010 by Dianne S | Posted in Decorating & Remodeling

I'm considering furnishing my family room with antique or vintage furniture rather than new. My house is 130 years old and its a victorian farm house. It has a little country/farm house feel and a little bit of victorian formality.

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Fabrics, colors and textures of the Victorian era will allow you the flexibility you want in more updated furnishings.

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I hesitate to call what this Cincinnati couple do with furniture "upcycling" because it's so much more than that. As they say in their etsy profile, the couple "creates warm yet modern environments by blending styles such as mid-century modern, vintage industrial and hollywood regency."

Take that dresser in the third photo, for instance – after stripping and painting the base of the cabinet, the couple cut apart old shutters and applied them to the drawer fronts, piece by piece, to create that breathtaking herringbone pattern. And that floor lamp? It's made from an old surveyor's tripod and a vintage lamp shade! Love it!

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