A comprehensive, photo-filled guide to giving your home a distinctive retro look down to the last detail.
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 and every practical tip for buying, styling, and restoring your vintage homewares to achieve your perfectly styled home. With real houses, real people, and real affordable items, this book shows how you can achieve a stylish vintage/modern home too.
Discover how these must-have items and styles work in your own home and how to integrate vintage with modern. Each chapter covers a decade from the 1920s to the 1990s, introducing fascinating social history from each period and revealing how what was going on in the world influenced the home interiors of that time. There are practical styling, restoration, and cleaning tips and useful watch-out advice for buying vintage pieces. Additionally, although chapters are separated by decade, styles from different eras may be used alongside one another, as reflected in useful cross-references to other chapters.
Also included is an accessible directory of the best vintage traders, both in the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as further reading should you wish to learn more.
ASIN : B00IV4H9WE
Publisher : David & Charles (August 2, 2013)
Publication date : August 2, 2013
Language : English
File size : 41067 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Not Enabled
Print length : 355 pages
by Mardee Sherman
Love this book!
I found this book at the library and after skimming through it, immediately bought it! If you’re hooked on vintage and modern, you would love this – the photos are beautiful and fun and give reign to lots of creative ideas.
by Rebecca S. Evans
Worth it!
Great decorating ideas with beautiful photos and helpful text.
by no-nonsense
collectible kitsch
The book is like a catalog for retro/vintage collectible kitsch. Lots of photos of items (biscuit tins, perfume bottles, enamel ware, etc). A few photos of actual homes with retro collectible items.Each decade from 1920s to 1990s are covered, with an overview/summary of major historical events, popular tastes, key decor defining the decade. I found this helpful. Restoration tips and Buyer Beware Tips are in yellow boxes, which is also helpful.The content format is nice and appealing to flip through.I deducted 1 star because the photos of actual homes w/collectibles are not that inspiring or chic. The collectible items allow you to BEGIN collecting, and is by no means exhaustive of all that is available, but the background information is definitely helpful if you are serious about collecting such items.I was surprised the author did not list websites such as Rubylane or 1st Dibs, which specializes and sells vintage items, but do not offer much in the way of provenance and history information.
by Holden Tudix
really nice book
This is a really nice book that captures the timeframes of which it is trying to show. I bought this for the mid century modern section and was not let down!
by Hollyberry
Good book, not exactly what I was looking for
I was hoping it would give more information about colors of walls, hardware, types of cupboards and countertops and flooring. It was more furniture styles. But still a good book.
by miss k
Lots of great photos
This is a wonderful book for learning about vintage style of that period,lots of beautiful pictures and great information, I really enjoyed it
by M. Giancola
Wonderful book – love the UK/US histories and gorgeous photos
I actually purchased this book because I’ve become obsessed with collecting mid-century fabrics and kitchen collectibles for our vintage travel trailer. I own a lot of “decorating” books and don’t have a strong tolerance for useless “pretty pictures” of flowers and rooms that rely on furniture I don’t have and never will. This book really stands out – gorgeous pictures of detailed rooms – I notice something new every time I look through this book. The author gives interesting back stories on manufacturers and uses of collectibles, furniture and fabrics – and gives a unique perspective of both the U.S. and the U.K.. My new favorite book, highly recommended for those who love vintage.
by Diane C.
Beautiful pictures of vintage stuff
Arrived a day early. Brand new book in perfect condition for less than 10 dollars including shipping and tax!This book contains a lot of information and dozens of photos. It’s a great gift for any vintage fan. It’s from England, though, so there were a few things mentioned that I never heard of.
by Victoria
Cute book bought it as a gift
by Bookworm50.
Excellent book, and a great resource. Not just a ‘these are the items from this era’ book, but also a social commentary of the times. Most interesting.
by Mrs R
Great book with lots of very good photography guiding you through vintage living from the 1920s to 1990s. This book is so much more than just a ‘flick through’ coffee table ornament – it shows you how even small injections of vintage can work in your home and makes it achievable for all. It gives you background information on items you may already own or would like to and style tips on how you can display them to their best. It covers the whole house including more unusual areas such as halls, children’s bedrooms, study and the garden. It gives very handy (and tested) restoration and cleaning tips. To top it off it is based on actual people’s homes – and who doesn’t like a nose in others houses?! Great as a gift but even better for yourself.
by lkelsey
I found the style and the pictures very outdated, and that’s coming from someone who’s very passionate about vintage and antique decor. It appeared to be a very ‘grandma’ style and didn’t feel relevant for anyone under 50.
by S. J. Mellor
I pre-ordered this book as I love having a nosey at others houses and try to live as much of a vintage life as possible and was really pleased when it arrived. There are lots of vintage lifestyle books and magazines popping up all over the place at the moment but out of all of them I would recommend this. The combination of real peoples homes and then photographs of iconic pieces to look out for yourself works really well. The writing is informative and interesting and much more than just a coffee table book, actually a really good read. The way the book is laid out makes it easy for you to dip in and out of different eras but I actually just read it from beginning to end and enjoyed it very much. Highly recommended for anyone new to vintage as a good guide to getting the style of different eras, but also interesting for the more experienced vintage lover. There is one slight problem though, I am now terribly jealous of the homes photographed!