Vintage Living.

Subject: Vintage Living. Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:02 pm

Why vintage? I feel jumpy when I find myself in an immaculately furnished room. I worry that somehow I am making the place untidy. In fact part of me suspects that my total adoration of all things vintage is entirely down to the fact that I can express my inner Miss Haversham in a room full of objects with stories of their own to tell...
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Subject: Re: Vintage Living. Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:40 pm

Vintage to me says "life", not the unchanging, clinical perfection, but adaptation, making do, cherishing, growing, the outward expression of inner feelings. It is telling my story and exclaiming "I LOVE YOU" with no words needed.

Subject: Re: Vintage Living. Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:50 pm

Honny, that is gorgeous...!
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Subject: Re: Vintage Living. Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:20 pm

To me, Vintage says charm & personality.

Subject: Re: Vintage Living. Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:57 pm

I think vintage also reminds me of a time when most women lived a "home-centered" existence. I want vintage things of the home, not autoparts or office machinery It reminds me of how my grandmothers lived and helps me in my quest to learn the skills of yesteryear. When I use my vintage egg beater to make scrambled eggs, I think of all the women before me who gathered the eggs, scrambled them along with fried bacon and wiped their hands on aprons they made themselves in their sunny white kitchens with gingham curtains. Okay, now back to 2007 and the messy playroom.

Subject: Re: Vintage Living. Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:48 pm

I have always felt a connection with those women who have gone before us. As a young girl, I felt like I was born 30 years too late.

Vintage shows that this is a home not a museum. There is a distinct difference to me between vintage and antique. Antique brings fear of breakage and makes the house more important than its inhabitants. But vintage says I love you enough to let you touch, hold, caress, and use the things here. It is history in the living.

Age : 52 Joined : 20 Feb 2007 Posts : 9 Name : carol

I love vintage everthing
I think mostly because there is no pretension, it is what it is. I hate those rooms that look like operating roomso I love the cosy squishyness of vintage and the fact that ypu can add almost anything and it still looks great
and best of all it can be a little untidy and that works for me
carol

Subject: Re: Vintage Living. Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:47 pm

Oh, I'm so glad I stumbled on this site-- I've read so many articles recently about how everyone is search for "streamlined" modern decorating and all the no-fuss things that go with them, and I was getting a little nervous. I live in a house from 1899 decorated in Victorian and vintage items-- which would probably be clutter to many, but is comfort and eye-candy to me.

I'm glad to know there are others still around who still appreciate nice old things.

--Jenn
http://web.mac.com/thriftshopromantic/iWeb/

Subject: Re: Vintage Living. Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:03 pm

Hi Jenn! I hate streamlined/contemporary decorating..it is just so darn cold and unwelcoming. Who wants cold? I want warm and soft and pretty. And there are a lot of us out there!

Subject: Re: Vintage Living. Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:13 pm

Vintage feels warm to me. And it embraces life. Everything is a celebration in Vintage. Life is worth celebrating. Home is worth celebrating. Family and friends are worth celebrating. Where as these days it's only a promotion or some huge event that people celebrate. And sometimes they don't even pause long to celebrate it ~ they are too busy thinking and calculating "what next?"

I think vintage savors each little moment of life. From the chores and work, to the food and meals, from the necessities to the luxuries, to the people and loved ones, to the Home, to the seasons, to nature, to the earth and to Life its very self.

I like how things were made and they were cherished and appreciated ~ and kept. I don't like living in the disposable world we are now in. Okay, I have used paper plates. Sometimes I love them, I must admit. But everything else that is disposable these days. New cell phones come out. New computers. New clothes (I know many people who don't own like a favorite outfit that they've had for years, or people that don't even pack away winter/summer clothes -they just chuck them and get new ones next year). Kids toys. Shoes. They try and make disposable.

Okay, get this. This is my rant for the day. I live in a town with a college and in May when they were all moving out for the year, you should see the stuff these students throw out rather than move and take back home to save for the next year. There are microwaves. Dishes and silverware. Dvd players. You name it. It's out waiting for the trashman to pick up. Now, that is not even sad. That, I think, it totally and completely disgusting and disgraceful. Luckily some people go by and take the things. But most is sent to trash. Can you imagine?! And I guess the kids parents just buy them new stuff for the next year. "It's easier than moving it all." ugh!

Vintage lives. Vintage lasts. Vintage savors.

Subject: Re: Vintage Living. Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:04 pm

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Hi Ladies--

You guys are always so fun to read. I agree that jeans & shorts feel weird to me. Hurts my eyes and skin!!!!

I have been inspired to sew more lately. I've signed up for a course at my public library that teaches you to use patterns. Wheee!

I want to fluff up all the skirts in the world with an underlayer of tulle. Wouldn't that be nice? Here is my St. Patrick's Day creation. Okay, so my plaid stripes don't line up....at least I got a zipper on right.
Bye! Laura

Subject: Re: Vintage Living. Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:37 pm

Oh! That dress is utterly adorable! And I agree with you on the whole tulle thing! I have recently got into sewing, and am very pleasantly surprised to find all the places I can get vintage sewing patterns! I can't wait to make dresses of my own!

Subject: Re: Vintage Living. Wed Aug 22, 2007 1:46 pm

I love vintage, but in small doses. Its like strong colours, which I also adore. I find it makes more impact if its done to compliment, rather than as the prime focus. I go in for light woods and clean, simple lines. Then I'll dress it up with a vintage throw or cushions. This works well in the living and bedrooms. Your dressing table and clothes closet is a good area to have vintage items. I've been on the look out for a dressing table set for some time now, along with scent bottles. I got a beautiful runner for the bureau. Found by coincidence at one of the local charity shops. It needed a good cleaning but it came up smiling and looks great!

You could go all out in your bedroom I suppose, but I've always thought its not usually to a man's taste. And its not fair to impose your taste alone on the household decor. You want family and friends to feel comfortable. Not like their in a museum.

However the kitchen is a great place to go a bit mad and have all sorts of vintage, but entirely usable items.

One day I hope to have a little room that's my own personal space and I'll go all Cath Kidston on it! In the meantime, I'm aiming for something a bit different; vintage coastal! Goes with my love of the sea. Think faded blues, sea green, sand and bleached wood!

Subject: Re: Vintage Living. Sat Oct 06, 2007 2:40 pm

Vintage is a way of life for me. I have always been into anything oldfashioned, I used to spend my pocket money in antique shops buying such things like, little silk handbags with gold sequence sewed onto them, tiny blue glass perfume bottles, silver cakestands, old books, old teddy bears, anything at all.
Everyone used to say, and still do infact that I was born 100 years to late, that I should of lived in the past.
Vintage to me is homely, cosy, they are items which have been lovingly cherished by women of times gone by, and which I now have the privledge to lovingly cherish.
Vintage is about the past, it is personal contact with the past, been able to see, touch, smell and look after those precious items that you have brought in your home, which women of a time before I was born would have handled and cared for.
Vintage is saying to hell with this modern day obsession of chrome, stream line, plastic and all things ugly.
Vintage is pretty, it is cosy, and it is everything I love and cherish.

Subject: Re: Vintage Living. Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:02 pm

I love and agree with all of you guys reasons to choose vintage, but you forgot one important one - usually it looks ten times better than the new stuff! I´m in love with the 40s-50s look, and even if they copy it now, it´s not the same.