Trends

Did you say vintage?

9 and 10 February, after London, Milan and New York, Paris hosted the Vintage Fair. It was at Atelier Richelieu (2nd arrondissement). The opportunity for fans of the genre to find their favorite pieces of furniture, 30 years to 80 years. An eclectic style so that routed more than one. Until he explains …

In terms of decorating, to vintage, is simple: it takes everything that is old and it gives the flavor of the day. The kitchen table Formica mum or horrible leather armchair Auntie, wallpaper orange and green goose poop on our children … room Moche, kitsch, outdated? In fact, all these objects are furiously trend if arranged in the right way.

Petit guide novice:
It is not simply Retr ‘or junk collected at random from your findings. Colors, shapes and materials of the vintage are readily identifiable. To help you find, here are some essential like:
In the trend modular interior, the tam-tam stool, stackable, lightweight and can pop in, is a classic. For more effect, vary the colors and textures (Branex Design) and stack them in a corner column.

The lacquered bistro table, round or square, with its tray landed on one foot, ideally in chrome steel, is in fichtre. Low, it is perfect for your living room. A place on a patterned carpet (peas, square to rounded corners, lines and stripes …).
The lamp color Plexiglas revisits a vintage standards: the effect plastic (which is also found on objects Formica).

A decoration in the wind:

This year, Habitat is flashy, bright, cozy, eccentric and decoration fits the trend. Forgotten discrets interiors in neutral tones and up to glitter, gilding, and other reasons naive acid colors.

Draperies and gilded mirrors to the walls, bright lights flashing in a thousand caps, taffeta curtains on the windows, carpet motifs responsible for black and white intertwined ground, not forgetting the vital seat of style, here are the bases of the trend of the years: the baroque. In parallel, the habitat has also discussed the colors and patterns seventies. A youthful style, relaxed, fresh and fun for a variation of your interior color as turquoise, apple green, lemon yellow and pink together without complexes.

If your budget is limited to meet the requirements of current trends, show tips. To give a touch of seventies, China of old furniture or objects in the garage sale and repainting them in colorful shades.


Ask to retrieve an old spool used for winding the cable on a construction site and after sanded, repainting it in pink … If you like baroque fashion, try to recover a piece, for example, a gilded mirror and dress the curtains on the grounds of rococo that you manufacture yourself. Starting from the same cloth, you can make a couch or throw pillows to bring your room.

An intelligent:

Programmable coffee maker of the robot vacuum cleaner, that progress already made to make our home more comfortable! Innovations succeed and everyone looks forward to his home can be equipped with these little wonders in order to limit the daily tasks.

Future or science fiction? Who has never dreamed of not having to care for her home … An intelligent refrigerator which controls only the food missing, a robot vacuum cleaner or a wall that runs the machine washing, ironing, and folds and stores your machine … It’s tempting but the house of tomorrow, especially the care of the programming of small things of everyday life from a unique steering coffee, alarm clock, light, heating, start washer dishwasher and washing machine in peak hours and management of all your habits of comfort. A touch screen, even a virtual 3D screen, combine all the orders of the house as well as television, computer, telephone, hi-fi …

The bathroom neo-retro:

The trend continues this fall with bathrooms that are ergonomic, functional and aesthetic.Tastefully redesigned, the pond becomes a place where it is good time to take care of itself.

The principle of the bathrooms neo-retro look is simple, just combine the latest innovations with aesthetic touches another time. Resolutely modern cauldron ceramic, marble, stone or glass placed on a suitable stand or dressing table, we refer, without doubt, to the bowl and pitcher that our grandmothers used to wash. Whether you are in a contemporary style or classic retro touches can make a match and later romantic chic or customize your bathroom. Hi-tech, multi-shower jet angle can coexist, if you have sufficient space, with a retro bathtub with taps up to the old gold, in the middle of the room.

The colors of the sea, blue is still relevant to dress your pond. In light or tone frank, through the turquoise, it can marry with a wall mosaic to brighten. In contemporary, dark red and gray associated with a parquet or tile brings a chic side to the coin. Teak and natural tones create an atmosphere for a Zen bathroom exotic.

Furniture: trends of the fall:

Furniture adapted to current trends: colorful style oriented seventies kitsch, furniture, made for a baroque or old furniture vintage direction of its interior.

First, if you want to change your furniture or if you move, think about the possibilities of your home and take measurements of where you want your furniture. Be careful to mix in one room, all this may be appropriate for elements of decoration, is as much more risky with the furniture, which alone set the tone of the piece. In fact, furniture manufacturers have thought and do not hesitate to hold together the two major trends, seventies and baroque, to produce articles of furniture atypical extremely friendly. For example, the chair-chair with legs molded very class that comes in pink, turquoise or yellow tart … A great way to mix the trends of the time avoiding the lack of taste.

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