47 photos and instructions will help you decorate your garden in a retro style. For you - a lot of interesting ideas, ways of aging a tree. Also a master class, photos will help to update old furniture.
The retro-style garden will remind its owners of the events of bygone years. Such a vintage style will allow you to put things in order, arrange old things in a certain way so that they create the right mood.
Retro style garden - interesting ideas with photos
You got a country house, which you turned into a summer house, but there are many things here, and your hands do not go up to throw them away? This does not need to be done. Such items are now very valuable. Look, maybe there are old chairs, stools in the attic, if they are in good condition, then it is enough to just wash them. If these pieces of furniture are unstable, then repair them using metal corners, self-tapping screws, and other fasteners. If you have old boards, this is what you need. Nowadays, the vintage style is very trendy, and designers artificially age the wood to achieve this effect. It will be enough for you to brush away the dust of centuries from it and make such a tabletop. You will assemble it and place it on a metal or wooden base.
It will be nice to sit here with your family or with friends. Put a couple of bouquets in any suitable container, set the table and you can relax away from the bustle of the city.
If you have old cookware, do not throw it away either. After all, such skimmers and shovels are not produced now, it is clear that they are old. Make these things your pride. Hang them in a prominent place, for example, on such a forged element attached to the wall. And since this is a vintage-style garden, let plants with large leaves climb here.
The old soup tureen will also be a source of pride. Pour soil here and plant flowers, such as carnations.
If you decide to make a new fence, keep some elements of the old one. Securely fixing this part of the fence, you will turn it into a vertical flower girl. It will be enough to put together boxes from the available boards, pour earth here, plant green or flowering plants. And the old metal bed will turn into a cozy sofa. It is enough to sand and paint it, and then put a mattress here to make it comfortable to sit.
Even if your metal forged elements are covered with rust, this is not a reason to refuse such an interesting part. The retro-style garden will be replenished with another charming man-made creation. Let such a forged element become a support for roses. Set up a mini-museum in a small corner. Then old dishes can be located here, for example, a colander.
Also place a flowerpot to decorate this place. And the sewing machine table will successfully turn into a small vertical flower bed. There is also room for plants here, just like in the blooming corner in the next photo in retro style.
Such old cans and coffee pots are found in many suburban areas. After some time, their enamel breaks off, and the owners throw these items away. But if you pour water here, put flowers, then on a fine sunny day these phloxes, cosmos and zinnias will ennoble these objects, and a retro-style garden will be simply magnificent.
Also, rust is not a hindrance to the next set. This is antique furniture. The new owners left her in the form in which she stayed until now. You can immediately see that this is a retro-style garden, and such items help to achieve the desired mood. If you want this furniture to last longer, sand it first to remove the rust. Then you need to paint the table and chairs with paint designed to work on rust. You can use black, gold, to get a beautiful bronze shade as a result.
An antique stroller can easily turn into a flowerpot. Such an item is a real rarity. If such a thing is not so easy to get, then many people have metal buckets, pots that have become unusable over time. And these pots will be excellent containers for nasturtium, you can also put cut flowers in a bucket in water. Place an old window, door, table next to it so that a retro-style corner appears in your garden.
A wooden chest of drawers will also take its rightful place. It will turn into an excellent upright flower girl. If you have old banks and they will go into business. Fix these on the walls of the chest of drawers, plant plants in them. You can decorate the countertop with stones by simply pouring them here. Open a few boxes to plant flowers here too.
If such a chest of drawers has aged from time to time, then you can even expose new wood to methods so that it looks like old. See how to do it.
Firing and brushing wood for retro decor
These two methods will allow you to acquire wood from which you can then create. Then even new boards will look like they have a long history.
If the board has been in an open space for many years, then under the influence of natural factors, the light areas, which are softer, are first destroyed. This is why the wood becomes so ribbed.
To speed up this process, apply brushing. To do this, you remove the soft fibers mechanically. For work, a hard brush is taken. It can be nylon, metal, sisal. Or combine multiple materials. With the help of such tools, brushing is performed.
These attachments are attached to a grinder or drill. You will also need sandpaper, and abrasive sponges will help remove unnecessary grooves and splinters. While brushing, guide the tool along the grain of the wood. First, try to do this work on a small piece to learn this wisdom. See how the box was created using brushing. It can also be used to decorate the interior in a retro style.
You can use not only mechanical methods, but also chemical ones. To do this, use, for example, a sandblaster. Then such wood must be covered with stain, after which it is varnished here.
You can also wax the wood in the final step. Another method of aging wood is firing. It also burns soft areas first.
The wood is burned with a gas burner or blowtorch, after which the charred particles are removed, washed here with water, and upon completion, the surface is covered with wax or oil. See what a house looks like when it has been decorated with a burnt board. This can be additionally not tinted, but if desired, it is covered with a colored stain.
Such wood is very durable. It is less flammable, almost does not lend itself to attacks by insects and decay, from this material you can build not only houses, but also erect fences. If you build one, then your retro-style garden will be surrounded by a decent fence. You can clad the walls with such elements, as some designers do.
We offer you to watch a master class with step-by-step photos, which will tell you how to age the furniture. Then you can place it in the garden or at home to get a vintage style in the interior.
To create a peeling paint effect, take:
- wooden facades;
- white alcohol;
- wax;
- water-based latex paint;
- putty knife;
- a rag;
- patina;
- 2-component craquelure;
- oil for wood;
- varnish.
Take wax, add a little white alcohol here to make the consistency more liquid, heat this component until the wax dissolves. Now apply the mortar to the facade and let it sit for a few hours to dry. Then apply first one, then the second coat of latex paint. If you are using multiple shades, after applying the first one, dry the facade and cover it with wax. After that, apply the second and do the same manipulations.
Now apply a two-component craquelure. The first layer should dry for an hour, then cover with the second, also let it dry. As a result, you will see that the facade begins to crack. Now remove the excess paint with a spatula. When you are satisfied with the result, apply the patina grout. After a few minutes, start rubbing off the excess with a cloth. In this case, this composition will remain in the cracks. You can saturate the fabric with wax and white alcohol and tint with such a composition if you do not have a patina grout.
Upon completion, it is necessary to apply varnish to this facade. It can be inorganic or water based, glossy or matte. See how you can age your door using pink, green, and white paint. Here is such a touch of antiquity will turn out, and the retro-style garden will acquire another object. You can put such a door in the right corner, decorate it in a vintage style.
This will age the new items to give them a vintage look. And if, on the contrary, you need to update old things, then look at some simple tricks to know how it's done.
How to update your garden furniture in a retro style
And so it will be clear that this is a retro style when you have such antiques. But if you want them to look great, then use some simple techniques.
This bedside table looks great. First you paint it. When the coating is dry, glue the tops of the napkins here. Use a mixture of PVA with water in the same ratio.
To prevent the drawing on the napkin from tearing, apply the glue not to it, but to the wooden surface.
When the glue is completely dry, fix these patterns with several coats of water-based varnish. You can use not only napkins as decoupage, but also old newspapers, as well as notes. Then at any time you can use these items. And if you wish, always read the old note.
First clean the surface to be used, then glue the selected paper elements here. Seal your creation with varnish. See how wonderful this revamped vintage-style bedside table is decorated with sheet music.
This was helped by the decoupage technique. The following product is also made using this technology. A whole set will appear at once in the country if you paint various pieces of furniture in one color. In this case, white was used. After that, it remains to decorate these blanks with the selected patterns, then paint with varnish. It is possible, using decoupage technique, to restore even an old watering can, which will sparkle in a new light.
If you use a silver paint pigment and a glossy varnish, then you will have a beautiful shiny chair.
You can add contours to the dresser to create this bitmap along the sides. If you wish, use a stencil to make such beautiful drawings.
You will update the stool in the same way. You can choose a floral pattern that was trendy in the old days to create a vintage style furniture.
If you have a similar bookcase, then also apply the decoupage technique here, but first cover the wooden base with wax, and then apply white paint. Then rub in several places to get that old touch. Then glue the selected picture here, and you will get a vintage item immediately in a retro style and shabby chic style.
You can decorate antique items with lace, then they will turn out to be graceful and romantic. And this is very easy to do. First, you can paint the surface in the desired color, then sand it a little with fine sandpaper. Brush off the dust, attach the cut out piece in a circle to the intended area.
You can even decorate an old lampshade with this delicate woven fabric. Then it is better to take lace with wavy edges. They will be located at the bottom. Glue on the lace for this interesting effect.
If you want your country house to have a vintage-style kitchen, then complement it with such cute jars. They can be pre-painted outside or inside. After the paint has dried, glue the lace. Use invisible glue for this.
Lace goes well with burlap. Take a jar, tie a wide strip of burlap here. To do this, connect its edges and sew them on your hands using a thread and a needle. After that, glue a thinner strip of lace and fabric flowers on top. The necks of such jars can be tied with twine.
Place vases in the garden or indoors that you will decorate with lace. This knitted decoration is glued here with PVA glue, when it dries, cover this creation on top with acrylic paint of the selected color.
You can make candlesticks this way. You glue ordinary glass jars with lace or twine twine here, put candles inside, and you will have such a romantic item.
If you need to update your watch, then decorate it with such a lace napkin. Tie it with threads and glue. And if you have such a napkin, then you can use it right away. To do this, first you need to unscrew the arrows, then thread the core of the mechanism into the center of this knitted thing, then you need to fix the arrows in place.
Even an old retro-style table will sparkle in a new way, you will not need to wash the tablecloth all the time, you can clean this in a couple of minutes. After all, it will be enough to wipe this product with a damp cloth, and the tabletop will become clean again. To do this, you must first glue lace on it, then cover the surface with water-based varnish. When it dries, it will become hard, and such a decoration will delight for a long time. Here's how to make vintage crafts to create a retro garden with adorable items. They can be decorated with your own hands or left as they were. See what a retro-style garden might look like in a photo and then you can watch it on video.
If you have an old typewriter lying around in your attic that no longer works, then plant flowers in its upper part.
Such retro-style furniture will become very picturesque. Watch how a regular chair morphed into an exquisite planter.
Find a bowl of a suitable shape and place it in place of the seat. Pour soil here, plant these multi-colored succulents. Just warn your guests that this is a table for beauty and you should not sit on it, as well as go to bed, which is also located in the open air. See how many flowers fit here. This large flower bed will be a bright accent in a vintage style garden.
For these purposes, you can also use an old bath. It also accommodates many flowers. Since this is a retro style, you can not update it or paint, but plant flowers directly in the existing container. But remember to open the drain hole so the water can drain out.
If you have an unnecessary musical instrument, its body will also make an excellent planter. See how wonderful a blooming cello looks in the garden.
You can arrange an entire bedroom in the open air. Then you will plant flowers and green plants not only on the bed, on its headboard, but also on the dressing table, on the nightstand, on the items that make up the bedroom set.
The next composition looks like a fairy tale or fantasy scene.
At first glance, it seems that you can sit down at such a table and drink tea. In fact, the seats are covered in turf. To do this, you need to pour soil here and plant a lawn. The tablecloth is also decorated with greenery. You can use moss as it. Garden plants are also planted in the cutlery.
To the surprise of guests and neighbors, you can use the leather sofa in an unusual way. To do this, remove part of the seat from it, pour earth here and plant bulbous plants, for example, such terry daffodils.
If you have access to an old toilet, try creating an unusual composition from several, you will get an original vintage garden. These attachments are great for growing flowers. There is a drainage hole for draining water, there is a spacious bowl where you can pour soil and plant flowers. And you can install pots with garden plants here and replace them if necessary.
A garden bench can also become a flower bed, place chrysanthemums here, place a composition with a pumpkin on the side, you get such a blooming corner.
Old metal basins will also become part of a retro garden. You can put this on a stool or on a chair, put marigolds here. And the old bucket can be adapted for growing carrots. She will be comfortable here, and in the fall you will receive an additional harvest. But just do not forget to water such containers in time, as in the heat the soil in them dries out quickly.
If you no longer use your mailbox, then you should also not throw it away. After all, charming flowers will fit here. Plant a hybrid petunia or regular petunia. Soon it will turn into a real blooming bush, will become a worthy decoration of the garden in a retro style.
Now we offer to watch the promised videos, from which you can also draw ideas for inspiration.
And how to age the furniture so that it becomes in a vintage style, the second story will tell. From it you will learn how you can age a tree using two methods.
The following story tells about the third method.
