Easy Ways To Give Your Entryway A Gorgeous Vintage Makeover
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Decorating your entryway is nerve-wracking because you're setting the mood for the whole house. Guests should feel welcomed and excited to see the rest of your home the second they walk in. Plus, it gives you another reason to hit your favorite home decor stores, like Home Goods or Pottery Barn. The entryway doesn't have to be filled from floor to ceiling. In fact, design experts suggest avoiding hall trees as decoration and instead keeping your layout minimalistic. Decorating with a few pieces can change its entire look. If you love vintage decor, this is your sign to give your entryway a gorgeous vintage makeover. Using different decorative elements to style an entryway wall or corner will add the perfect charmed look.
A vintage interior style includes brass tones, wooden accents, books, plants, and many ceramic statues. Incorporating various textures, colors, and patterns in your embellishments from an older era is ideal when decorating your entryway. Antique stores, flea markets, estate sales, and thrift stores are excellent places for finding vintage pieces. However, before purchasing anything, you should pick a style you want for your entryway to help you narrow down the vintage decor you can buy. Mid-century modern, art deco, and Victorian are a few vintage interior styles that can be integrated into your home. Once you choose a theme, create a mood board to determine the type of decor you want to pair and how you want to set them up.
Use wooden tables and vintage mirrors
Console tables are a must-have in an entryway for several reasons. They're incredible for taking up space on a large wall without overwhelming it. You can decorate them with several vintage trinkets. Further, you can find the perfect antique console table at an antique or thrift store. Facebook Marketplace is a superb place to find wooden tables with intricate details. However, any wooden table will work from a big box retail store. For instance, Amazon has a stunning off-white oak console table that would elevate a mundane entryway wall. It costs $193.99 and is available in multiple designs and finishes to fit your selected theme. Or, if you prefer something simple like TikTok user @fromjessicashome, opt for a basic wooden table, such as Pottery Barn's reclaimed wooden table.
On the other hand, you only need a couple of pieces to create the perfect vintage setup. The console table and a stunning brass vintage mirror are musts. Bronze and gold are also great candidates for mirror finishes elevating an entryway wall. You can hang it directly on the wall or on the table, resting against it. The antique mirror adds texture and extra details. You can shop for vintage mirrors anywhere, but you have to know what you're looking for, including style, shape, and details. Target has an eye-catching floral arch mirror for $54.99 that would transform the entryway. Then, you can decorate it with a few books, plants, and lamps, as suggested by the aforementioned TikTokker.
Swap the mirror for vintage artwork and add lots of details
Swap out the mirror for vintage art if you prefer something more interesting above the console table. TikTok user @xomacenna created a striking gallery wall with vintage artwork in gold frames. Stick to gold frames to achieve the vintage look, and use darker-toned landscape photos, including fields, flowers, meadows, and animals. Muted colors like gray, white, and beige are standard in a vintage theme. You can also find artwork with old houses on hills and women in Victorian dresses. To create the perfect gallery wall, it has to have multi-sized frames, so opt for small and large gold frames. You can arrange them differently, from using a large frame as the focal point and surrounding it with smaller frames to swapping between the sizes.
In addition, hanging multiple artwork pieces above the console table will prevent you from displaying too many embellishments on top. Style the table with two to three items to let the gallery wall be the center of attention. You can add a vase full of natural or artificial flowers next to a small stack of books and a candle. Or, swap the candle for an elegant statue head for some texture. If you find a statue head vase, you kill two birds with one stone. Michaels sells a state head vase for $12 that you can fill with a bouquet of peonies. However, there are also standard statue head options. For example, Target sells a breathtaking Kensington Hill statue for $59.99.