Antique Home Decor For Modern Homes

By Super

Tuesday, May 22, 2012, 9:48

Which is better, a charming house or a beautiful houes? It is a tough choice but get both one should aim at charm, as beauty comes hand in hand. The best way to add charm to your home is to get back to the roots and use an the antique home decor. The yester years furtinure, chandelier, accessories, hold in them the memories of the past elegance, style and stature which the present geometric designs, rod iron furnitures with all their richness lack. Thus, the recent trend is that of antique home decor in modern homes.

Antique home decor ideas for modern homes-

1.To begin with the antique home decor ideas, the backdrop is very important. Thus the use of pale colours like mauve, cream, sage green, light blue etc are best to be used. They complement the antiques as they are mostly in darker shades of wodden and black. These colours will also match your modern home design and accessories.

2.The mirror trend which is one of the hot favourite among the interior decoraters gives a wide variety of options to manipulate the antiques in modern home. Mirrors are best placed in the living and dining room. It makes them look spacious and the best solution is the use of antique mirrors.

Antique mirrors are big, available in varied different shapes and have decorative frames. If the backdrop is white, the frame colour cam be golden or black. It's best if the mirror reflects the garden. In case you don't have a antique mirror, here is a tip. Use the backseat of a vintage chair, as the frame and in place of the cushion, get a mirror attached.

3.How about get a mix match of modern pattern and vintage colours? This can be tried on sofa covers and curtains. Use modern colours andd strip, geometric or printed patterns for sofa covers and match them with traditional style cushion covers, with shimmers hangings on the side, zari work and in rich colours of bright pink, maroon etc.

The current trned is to use two different styles and colours of curtain together. Use vintage style heavy cotton curtains on both sides and complement it with white lace curtains.

4.The use of marbles for candle stands, phone stand etc. Marbles were widely used in the yester years and still hold on to their charm when in comes to decorating the house. Stick to white colour marbles.

5.The olden times people were very fond of pottery. The huge pottery, with ancient designs on it are often used to hightlight the room corner. The corner of the room is often left unnoticed which makes the decor look incomplete. The corner decorated with exquisite pottery and perfect lighting makes it perfect.

6.Use wooden furnitures along with rod iron chairs. Make the rim of the glass table wodden. Wooden side table in the bedroom adds on elegance.

Try on these six antique home decor ideas in your modern house and enjoy the spell it casts on the onlookers.