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Are you looking for details to make your home truly unique? If you love vintage furnishings and want to add a special touch to your interior design, antique home decor is the perfect choice.
Let yourself be inspired by your passion for collecting to find the retro elements that best suit your style. If you're not sure how to integrate them with the rest of your furnishings, here are Casavo's tips on 10 antique objects—both valuable and otherwise—for your apartment.
1. An antique dressing table, not just in the bedroom
A classic vintage piece of furniture is the dressing table, that table with a mirror typical of bedrooms, used for applying makeup and storing cosmetics, jewelry, and perfumes. To give a rustic-modern touch to your home, you can try placing it in a different room from the bedroom, for example in the entryway as a service table for emptying coins and placing mail.
2. Old signs and advertising posters
Old advertising posters are instantly recognizable vintage home objects that add an immediate nostalgic note to the decor. A poster is enough to bring back memories of other historical periods and moments from your childhood. Looking for an even more instant effect? Try hanging neon signs of brands from the past on the walls.
3. A vinyl collection with a vintage stereo system
Do you love music? Then you know that no digital technology can surpass the sound quality of timeless vinyl. Display your album collection in the living room and play them on a vintage stereo system that reproduces all the magical warmth of the needle's rustle on the record.
4. An old tube radio or a jukebox
Let's stay on the subject of music and talk about two valuable and highly elegant antique objects. In an antique shop or at a flea market, find an old tube radio, even better if it's in working order, and transform it into a decorative object. If you have the space, you can also add a beautiful authentic jukebox along with plenty of 45s to choose from as the soundtrack to your parties.
5. A collection of musical instruments from the golden age of rock
Why limit yourself to playing music when you can also play it? Original guitars, basses, and amplifiers from the '60s are fantastic decorative items, even if you don't know how to use them. Hang the instruments on the walls as decorations, and the living room instantly becomes a rock-style rehearsal room.
6. Vintage Typewriter
Once upon a time, typewriters were extremely common tools in Italian homes and offices.
After the advent of personal computers, they lost their primary function and became highly sought-after retro accessories. Simply place an Olivetti Lettera 22 in a corner to immediately highlight your passion for literary history and your ambitions as a writer.
7. Arcade games and pinball machines for eternal youth
Arcades and pinball machines are other antique household items that have been affected by the technological changes of recent years. In the past, coin-operated video games were ubiquitous in bars and arcades. Today they have fallen into disuse, but their nostalgic charm remains intact. If you're lucky enough to have an attic or basement, you can set up your own personal game room to share with friends for exciting evenings playing old video games.
8. Vintage appliances converted into new furniture
Appliances from years past had a sophisticated and refined design that can still make any room unique. In a post-industrial style apartment, for example, an original 1950s refrigerator fits perfectly with the rest of the furniture. You don't necessarily have to use it to chill food: simply unplug it and it becomes a cupboard or sideboard for storing plates and glasses. Appliances such as toasters, blenders, or even televisions and rotary phones, on the other hand, become splendid vintage ornaments
9. Lamps with a cinematic feel
Lamps are also valuable antiques that instantly add a personal touch to your interior. 60s or 70s-style lamps inspired by the Space Age style not only take your home back in time, but transform it into a movie set reminiscent of the films of Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, or Wes Anderson
10. Antique demijohns converted into lamps
We conclude our recommendations for antique objects for the home with demijohns converted into lamps. Large vintage bottles are beautiful, colorful, and excellent for a shabby-chic home look. There are various ways to use demijohns as furnishings; our favorite, however, is to transform them into lampshades or chandeliers to hang from the ceiling.
Antique and modern elements add precious details to transform your home into the project you've always had in mind. If you want to find the ideal property to decorate using vinyl records, lamps, and old appliances, on the Casavo's classifieds platform hundreds of different solutions await you to welcome you and give space to your collecting passions.
