Choosing art for your home can be a difficult process but it doesn't have to be! Vintage-Style Art is our latest obsession and today, we’re rounding up our favorite vintage style art pieces + showing you how we love to style them in your home!
Choosing art for your home can be a difficult process but it doesn't have to be! Select a style that will always be chic: vintage-style art. Whether it’s a small oil painting or a larger pastel piece, we’re rounding up our favorite vintage style art pieces + showing you how we love to style them!
Design by Bodine White | SHOP THE LOOK: Love of the Land
What is Vintage-Style Art?
Vintage-style art is classical, simple, and lovely. It’s inspired by the small-scale romantic oil paintings and impressionist movement of the 19th century. Our favorite pieces feature beautiful pastoral scenes and capture the simple moments of everyday life. Colors can be lush or muted and the art is often framed in gold or silver tones.
Design by Bodine White | SHOP THE LOOK: Lakeside Getaway, Midnight II Art
How to Decorate with Vintage-Style Art
Vintage-style art will bring a collected feel to your interiors which in turn will make the space feel cozy, warm, and inviting. If you love to hang art, we recommend hanging two pieces together, whether that is side by side or stacked. This allows you to make more impact with smaller pieces of art. You can also include vintage-style art in a gallery wall to add color and fill in space where you might be missing some color.
We love the trend of using small-scale vintage style art in the kitchen. A little landscape piece looks so charming leaned against your backsplash or on an open shelf. If you are struggling to fill your open shelving, add one or two framed vintage-style art pieces to bring in some color. Be sure to keep art away from your oven or sink.
Design by Bodine White | SHOP THE LOOK: Mirror Lake
Design by Bodine White | SHOP THE LOOK: Perfect Pear
Don’t limit yourself to styling small-scale vintage-style art on your kitchen counter. It also looks incredible on open shelving in the living room or an office. Pair it with your favorite books, vases, candles, or styling beads for the ultimate impact.
Design by Bodine White | SHOP THE LOOK: Love of the Land, Gingham Pitcher, Belmont Cabinet
Design by Bodine White | SHOP THE LOOK: Peonies of Pink
If you have a lot of contemporary or modern art, don’t worry! You can style pieces with similar colors and tones. Mixing art styles creates a story of your interests and will have your home looking like a beautifully curated art gallery.
Vintage Style Art - 12” or Smaller
Vintage Style Art - 18” or Smaller
Vintage Style Art - 24” or Smaller
Vintage Style Art - 28” or Smaller
Design by Bodine White | SHOP THE LOOK: Countryside II and Countryside VI
SHOP THE LOOK: Mirror Lake, Peonies of Pink, Perfect Pear
How to Pair Pieces of Vintage-Style Art
Pairing art isn’t as hard as you might think! If you are working with an abstract piece and vintage style art, select pieces that have similar color stories and won’t clash. When putting two vintage-style art pieces together, select items from the same collections or with similar subjects. Similar subjects within the art creates cohesion.
Do you love this look? Check out our blog on how to style large-scale art + check out Bodine White's latest interior design project Stone Bluff. This beautiful home features a lot of vintage-style art pieces styled perfectly alongside contemporary art.
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