There are some ways to include antiques in your home and make every environment more sophisticated. Therefore, it is not necessary to have classic style furniture and accessories to be able to insert an antiqued statue, a baroque frame or a retro desk. It is possible to insert antique details even in more modern and contemporary homes. Let’s see together how furnish with antiques own home.
Antique wardrobe in the room
If you have a modern, minimalist bedroom with a clean and simple design, you might want to give it some character. A good idea is to insert a small wardrobe in a classic style, something ancient and perhaps belonged to a member of your family to whom you are particularly attached. You will see, it will be the element that will dominate the environment.
Antique chest of drawers and porcelain vases
Also in the bedroom, to make it even more beautiful, insert a antique piece very useful, like the chest of drawers in walnut wood. Complements of this kind, today, are really very difficult to find, but if you have it at hand, make use of it! To intensify the retro effect in your room, add decorative details, such as white porcelain vases embellished with contrasting elements.
Classic sofa in the bedroom
The guest room can become even more beautiful if you use a bed instead of the usual bed antique piece beautiful and unexpected, like in a small sofa with gold edges and quilted padding. In this way, even this environment, usually always little considered, will have more character.
Antique furniture in the bathroom
Even in the bathroom you can include some antiques, like an old piece of furniture, to be used as a base for the sink. If you have one, entrust it to a carpenter so that the modification can be made for use in this environment. Thus you will have created a sophisticated and unexpected bathroom, but above all very welcoming.
Corridor with antique cupboard
In your hallway, if there is enough space, you could add one antique sideboard. Those of today are mostly suspended and in any case very linear, but those of the past have drawers and doors with very beautiful decorative keys. By adding a similar complement, this space, often not well cared for, can also have a more refined appearance.
Classic desk and modern chair
Do you like mix and match furniture? In this case we suggest you combine something ancient with something else extremely modern. If you need a desk, don’t buy something minimal and devoid of personality, choose one instead antique writing desk. And, instead of putting a chair that recalls the same style, use a transparent one or in any case with a contemporary design.
Restored antique chair
A old chair, of those with armrests and golden metal finishes, in a purely baroque style, can come back to life. How about restoring it? Just rely on a good upholsterer, choose a fabric that goes well with the rest of the room where you intend to place it and that’s it.
Antique half bust in the living room
Between antiques that you could include in your home there is also a half bust or even one ancient statue, or antiqued. It is a breaking element, which you can put on a coffee table in your living room or even at the entrance, on a piece of furniture or a shelf near the door. In this way it will be immediately clear to your guests that two opposite styles coexist in your home.
Antique table in modern kitchen
Have you ever thought about restoring an old trunk or a table? These are very useful accessories in many environments, so we suggest you do not throw them, if you have them on hand. They can be brought back to life and used. Where to put them? A trunk could occupy an empty space while an old one antique table it could be perfectly suited to your modern kitchen.
