10 enchanting antique furniture remodelling suggestions
The charm of antique furniture is well known and highly appreciated by many. Often it's slightly faded and time-worn look is what is enchanting about this furniture. Other times, it is best to modernize the object or piece of furniture in question, keeping the lines and the supporting structure, but changing the style, texture, color and some other components.
This is how some furnishings take on a new life and do not seem at all like they have been recycled, but are rather full-blown, designer objects that blend, in a balanced way, the ancient and the modern styles. Retro inspiration and new trends can come together in the creation of masterpieces. And often this doesn't even require a lot of effort or expense.
Take a look at the wonderful examples listed below:
A simple coat of mauve paint and the addition of brass feet were enough to transform this old dresser. In an instant, it has become a minimalist styled piece of furniture, perfectly suited to a modern and classy living room.
Tiffany brand green paint with the combination of a matching mirror have turned this antique sewing machine into a very special makeup corner table, or piece of living room furniture.
By just painting geometric shapes that balance the retro styled roundness of an old chest of drawers, this piece of furniture has completely changed its appearance.
A skilful repainting job and here is now an antique piece of furniture, with a slightly rustic style, but looking almost brand new.
Changing the knobs and handles, adding feet and applying a two-tone paint to a chest of drawers (that were about to be thrown away), has granted this piece of furniture a new life.
An antique dresser just needs a pastel paint (like candy pink, for example) and a few stenciled drawings to become, very easily, something fresh and perfect for a bedroom.
Aged wood, white paint and stencil for this modernized chest of drawers which is a mix between shabby chic and ethnic styles.
A bookcase with a new coat of paint and a backboard clad with a patterned wallpaper, can become a marvel.
And a display case, clearly an antique one, with the outer surfaces painted in black and the insides painted in the original color, has radically changed its look.
Finally, here is an old armchair. By replacing it with a more modern, patterned fabric and texture, it has been given a new life.
How about these makeovers? Do you want to copy some of them?
