Anna Nuttall

When the time comes to decorate your own home, the hardest fact to come to terms with is you can’t always afford your expensive décor taste, sure you want that silk lampshade with the gold trim, but you can’t really afford it and would it really be practical and would you use it every day? There are ways to cut your costs and still get fantastic ideas for your home. You can always try making vintage decorations for example, and it doesn’t need to look you’re in an antique show home. It will give the home a charm and show you are dedicated, romantic and full of personality; of course the details lie in the key objects that are able to tell a story.

Here are a few selected simple and cheap ideas that you can use to create vintage décor in your house where you are not only creating a lovely place for you and your family but one that you are able to use in your daily life.

Suitcase:

Have you got any old luggage lying around covered in dust? There is no need to hide them in the attic as there are so many ways to reuse those old suitcases. Have you ever thought of using them for home décor? It’s a great idea for not only storage but decoration as well, they can be on full display and can have a second purpose as a table base or a drawer chest. If the fabric of the suitcase is worn away or if the strap is falling to pieces then don’t worry, you can easily buy new fabric at a reasonable price or buy some new leather straps and sew them on. However if you don’t have an old suitcase but like the idea of it having a second purpose then here are a few ideas for where to buy them:

Not On The High Street Little Vintage Floral Suitcase Set By The Chic Country Home £25

Gift Bag Shop Antique Style Wooden Suitcase £39.99

Oliver Bonas Large Metal Storage Suitcase £95

Kitchenware:

When it come to your home the kitchen is the most important space and often can be the most chaotic room in the house. While you might have the latest up-to-date kitchen design fitted in with the latest gadget to make your life easy, somehow you want the kitchen to a have a more homely charm; kind of a more cottage country-style. A back to basics feel with there the smell of fresh bread being cooked in the morning, no noise of the television being blasted on and you can enjoy cooking peacefully. If you like the idea of having a back to basics vintage style kitchen but are still need the present with all its modern conveniences, don’t fear as help is at hand.

Retroplanet.com Green Fifties Style Kitchen Wall Clock $32.99

Dotcom gift shop Forties Style Embossed Cracker Tin £12.95

Lakeland Typhoon Vintage Kitchen Red Scales £29.99

Make up Compact:

In 1920s the era of Art Deco and of La Garconne the emphasis on make-up such as mascara and eyeliners became socially acceptable, it also became acceptable for women to take out their mirrored compact at a table and to powder her nose. Now in present times we regard these vintage compacts as silly little trinkets that your mother would have had on her dressing table, however there are beautifully decorated accessories and serious vintage collectors will pay a lot to have an early Tiffany and Co make-up compact. These make-up compacts can have a second purpose in the home as you can buy a collection of them and hang them up on the wall, adding a charming little feature to the room. Another suggestion is to have them on your dressing or bed-side table, its practical when you do need to powder your nose and it gives your bedroom that little added vintage touch to it. For vintage compact make-up you don’t need to pay top price as for a ‘vintage’ touch you can get them fairly cheap, here a few suggestion on how to buy them at a reasonable price.