Vintage mood board

Recently the magazine, Pretty Nostalgic asked people to create a mood board. It should represent and sum up people’s love of things: collections, vintage bits and bobs or things that inspire them. We had a go….and were chosen to appear on their website. Alas not in the magazine (as I stupidly didn’t take the photo high res enough…schoolgirl error!)

Here it is:

 

What I said about it was:

This mood board represents all the key items we have collected over the years to go into the our newly renovated lounge. We have mixed natural materials such as the brown battered leather case and shiny copper with hand blown glass and cream painted floorboards. The overall colours and styles are typical of the early 1970s – teaming pieces from the arts and crafts movement such as the William Morris fabric and Mucha advertising prints with the teak and gold tones of the Metamec starburst clock and space age heat bent lamp shade. The whole look reminds me of the lounge I lived in with my parents when I was young: with their brown walls and Sanderson Morris Golden Lily covered sofa. The teal walls brings the look into the modern world with its vibrant, happy shade. The pieces themselves bring back memories too as the blue bubble glass vase belonged to my Great Aunt and the amber bottle to my husbands grandma.

We particularly love the lamp shade, we literally fell in love under it – but that’s another story. The clock was left behind by the previous owners when we bought our family home, which we are currently painstakingly restoring. Finally, the Picasso print reminds us of trips to Barcelona and the colour ties in with the overall scheme perfectly. I love our lounge, the things in it and the peaceful space we have created.

Myself and my new husband (as of last week) run an online business called Your Vintage Life, sourcing, restore and selling vintage treasures. Our whole life is pretty vintage with the cars we drive, the toys our kids play with to what we wear.

They added:

Kate Honnor, who usually blogs under yourvintagelifeblog.com, is about to launch a new website called Vintage Bedford & Mk a guide to all the great things that happen across her county. Along with her husband and two children, Herbie and Kitty, Kate will often be found digging up veg, camping in their 1967 split screen camper van or dancing like loons around the lounge to their great vinyl collection.

For all the other ones chosen click here

To see our finished lounge check out out blog “Lounging Around”

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