To find, choose and place stylish little things and furniture for the “old” corner, you will have to spend a lot of time and effort. But the result is worth it!
Want to be in the trend of European garden fashion? Design your site in a vintage style! Accessories and furniture come from the past and vintage tools will whisper to you their amazing stories and will make an exclusive garden interior.
1. The design of the site in a vintage style often kindles the owner’s passion for collecting, resulting in abandoned garden corners turn into masterpieces with their own history and character. Skimmers for wall decoration, as in the photo, can be found in almost every grandmother’s kitchen.
2. Throw away the old tureen hand does not rise? Plant flowers in it and arrange on the terrace or outdoor veranda.
1. Skimmers for wall decor. 2. Old punch bowl is a container for flowers.
3. The door to the barn has long served its purpose, but did not exhaust all the possibilities — turn it into a panel, where the role of decor is played by garden tools and baking forms with plants planted in them.
4. A full-fledged retro-decoration is the iron bed, which in the” second life ” plays the role of a bench.
3. Panels from the old door. 4. Iron bed as a bench.
Vendors at the flea market and antique dealers can talk for hours, telling about the origin of a species of object, as well as its former owners. But most fans of nostalgic belongings know that believe everything told is not worth it. Experts give this advice: “Stories that tell you old things, you should” listen “eyes”.
Indeed, to get the most accurate information about the vending accessory, you need to carefully inspect it. And yet, without a certain amount of imagination to open the door to the past will not work. This is the beauty of the old things — they are enveloped in an aura of mystery. Even if the subject has passed to the owner by inheritance and covered with touching memories.
1. Support for roses in some places covered with rust, which does not cast a shadow on the reputation of “royals”.
2. After years of service in the kitchen, the colander found a warm place in a nostalgic corner on the terrace in the company of the same “honorary pensioners”.
3. Sewing machine of the beginning of the last century will successfully serve decorative purposes. The only nuance: it is not always easy to find a suitable place for such an unusual, bright accent. Note that such an art object will fit well into a calm background. To the court will have, for example, an evergreen hedge or a simple stone wall.
1. Rose support. 2. Colander. 3. Sewing machine.
Phlox, zinnias and cosmos look charming in white enameled jugs and cans. Scuffs and chips on the dishes do not spoil the overall appearance of the composition.
Phlox, zinnias and cosmos in white enameled jugs and cans.
Actually, it is the RAID of history that makes the gardens in the vintage style unique and, not afraid of this word, inspired. And defects on the grandmother’s milkman or the grandfather’s Bicycle, whether it be cracks, chips or scuffs, are only welcomed: it is eloquent proof of their “antiquity”. Things with a rich past can be found in any flea market, antique shops and, of course, in your own attic.
1. How old is this baby carriage, no one can determine reliably. Versions designed to lift the veil over its past are as diverse as the possibilities of using it in the garden – as pots for annuals, a container for firewood or a place to store miniature garden equipment.
2. What was in that iron pot before? One can only guess! But now nasturtium with orange-red flowers has settled in it for the whole summer.
3. The window and the door were left out of work after the repair of the old house, well, a chair and a table were found in the landfill. Items that are no longer of any value to the previous owners, for true lovers of antiquity sometimes mean more than expensive designer items.
1. Old baby stroller planter for annuals. 2. Nasturtium in the iron pot. 3. Window, door, chair and table.
Romance emanates from forged furniture in the flower garden, which in a spectacular scene United geranium, Nepeta and Corydalis.
Forged furniture at the flower garden
These options are not for you? There is an alternative simpler — imitation: now shops abound with accessories and furniture”antique”. You can also” age ” things with your own hands.
What should be taken into account when starting the design of green areas in the new “old” style? Decor elements should be placed in the most prominent place and in such a way as to create the impression that they “live” here for centuries. To enhance the effect, combine household items, furniture and accessories from different eras, styles and materials — then a very special atmosphere in the garden will be guaranteed.
The old grandmother’s case there is still life in the old dog! Put it in the garden under a canopy and planted in boxes and on the shelves of different plants. Beauty!
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