Style Your Modern Vintage Home

With an 18-year career in retail design and visual merchandising, Kate Beavis is a successful online retailer of collectible homewares, furnishings and clothing via website 'Your Vintage Life' . Kate is a regular blogger and writes articles for Vintage Life magazine, one of the largest vintage magazines in the UK, selling both in the UK and internationally. Your Vintage Life won 'Best Online Homewares Retailer' at the National Vintage Awards 2013.

Contents

Foreword by US contributor


Introduction


What is vintage? Why buy vintage?
Introduce the decades covered. Aims of the book – focus on its practical nature.


 


1. 1920s/30s


- Introduction
to the period, prosperity after war, Wall Street Crash and depression


- Lounge: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern lounge e.g. cocktail bar/bar ware/deco styling


- Kitchen: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern kitchen e.g. deco teapot


- Bedroom: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern bedroom e.g. dressing table sets.


 


2. 1940s – 1950s


- Introduction to the periods,
rationing, war, feeling after war in US/UK, new design, molecular forms, hope,
Festival of Britain


- Lounge: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern lounge e.g. utility furniture (40s), flat pack furniture (50s)


- Kitchen: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern kitchen e.g. enamel ware (40s), fitted kitchens, key accessories (50s)


- Bedroom: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern bedroom e.g. make do and mend, blouses for pillowcases


- Hall: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern hall e.g. telephone


 


4. 1960s – 1970s


- Introduction to the period, space
race, birth of teenager, package holidays (60s), baby boomers setting up home,
recession (70s)


- Lounge: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern lounge e.g. teak, art glass, rocket lamps (60s), shag pile rugs (70s)


- Kitchen: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern kitchen e.g. pasta jars, pull down lights (60s), brown, soda streams
(70s)


- Bedroom: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern bedroom e.g. dansette record player


- Playroom: practical tips for
buying key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into
your modern playroom e.g. toys/games


 


6. 1980s – 1990s


     - Introduction to
the period, boom, look back to the 50s, US and UK as superpowers, technology,
(80s) recession, look back to 1970s style (90s)


     - Lounge:
practical tips for buying key items from the period and practical steps for
integrating them       into your modern
lounge e.g. the colour red (80s), crystals (90s)


- Kitchen: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern kitchen e.g. microwave


- Bedroom: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern bedroom e.g. velvet


 


8. Repairing,
restoring and preserving vintage furniture


     - Creative ideas
for upcycling e.g. making own curtains


     - top tips e.g.
drink rings out of teak, tea stains out of bone china etc







9. Directory


An alphabetical list of the main vintage furniture stockists
to find all the genuine and affordable vintage treasures in the UK, US and
Australia


 


Index


Picture Credits


Acknowledgements