Lookbook
Getting the right look to your home can sometimes seem like a daunting task, and it’s often tricky to know where to start. We’re here to help and offer inspiration on how to pull together a great room that works well, and looks great. We know that the most successful interiors are those that aren’t defined by one particular look, but gather inspiration from a range of styles. Antiques are a great way to achieve this, helping you express your individuality and are always a fantastic starting point for designing any interior.
When considering adding antique pieces into a design, it’s important to think about both form and function. All of our pieces are appraised and restored by our master carpenter, so you can be sure that not only do they look great, but they’re ready for use too!
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Antiques & Your Home
Decorating with antiques is an easy way to add soul to your home, and offer a unique, one of a kind feel. You don’t need to cram your rooms full of antiques pieces to achieve this. Often, just a few special pieces are enough to transform a room and add a sense of depth and character.
You can easily use antiques as a great focal point to smoothly stitch together the overall scheme of a room. Are you in need of inspiration, for how to seamlessly incorporate antique furniture into your home or work space? We’ve pulled together some of our favourites antique pieces to give you a feel of how antiques can work together in harmony in your home.
Mixing Old & New
At Penderyn Antiques, we love mixing contemporary and traditional interior styles. After all, our ethos revolves around bringing beautiful antique furniture into the 21st century. And, what better way to do this than incorporating antique furniture into contemporary settings?
Adding antiques to your interiors can produce a room scheme that looks as though it has evolved over many years. Combining modern trends with antique pieces is what makes our homes unique. We’ve always loved this idea and we’re excited to share how to embrace an eclectic mix of styles. Not only are antique pieces beautiful and unique, but they are also an environmentally friendly shopping choice. So, in celebration of this, we’re offering our take on the best way to mix contemporary and traditional interior styles.
Find your style
Your style is your style, be expressive, experiment, and enjoy the creative process. There rule book has been cast aside and now, curating the perfect home comes down to you, your preferences and what makes you feel good. Creating a space that evokes an emotion is important, whether it’s joy, a sense of calm or comfort, colours, tones and textures are the ingredients to the perfect room recipe.
Below, we have pulled together some thought provoking home interiors to inspire and guide your thought process, helping you unearth your personal style.
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Create the look
At Penderyn Antiques, our passion for interior design extends across a broad and varied range of styles. From rustic farmhouse to traditional antique, we source pieces to suit many styles. Take a look below to learn more about some of our signature styles and get inspired to create these looks in your home.
Rustic Farmhouse
Rustic farmhouse interiors place an emphasis on the natural elements of the furniture used, joints are typically exposed and the grain and natural finish of the wood is a key feature. These interiors draw on times when furniture was by necessity much simpler, and celebrates the quality of the craftsmanship.
There is a wide variety of rustic farmhouse furniture from dressers and settles to farmhouse chairs and tables. Reclaimed wood is also very popular in rustic interiors, giving new life to this natural material. Paired with a neutral colour palette, the fusion of past and present is the ideal backdrop to any room.
Carved & Gothic
For many centuries furniture has been made incorporating carved detail. Carved furniture has patterns cut into the wood to create decorative panels, columns, aprons, and legs. There are many different types of carving found on antique furniture and these styles can sometimes be used to help identify a period or even a particular maker.
There is a wide range of pieces available from carved oak coffers to decorative carved chairs that provide grandeur and gothic flair. The use of dark woods such as mahogany or even ebonized woods adds to the gothic aesthetic and carved pieces are often available in these darker materials which are very impactful within interiors.
Traditional Home
Traditional interior style takes you on a walk down memory lane. Whether you store your prized possessions in a Victorian chest or display your china in an Edwardian cabinet, traditional elements create a classic and warm environment that is rooted in the past without specifying any single time period.
Traditional pieces tend to incorporate darker woods such as walnut and mahogany alongside neutral colour palettes. Incorporating quality pieces which have stood the test of time highlight harmony and order within a space. Popular styles include wingback chairs (a type of chair with a high back, wooden legs and winged sides), chest of drawers and Queen Anne chairs (a curved armchair with cabriole legs).
More Inspiration
Here at Penderyn Antiques we have a wide and varied selection of furniture available in many styles from rustic vogue, to Arts and Crafts style, to country cottage. As such, we’ve written a selection of blogs providing our top tips and delving deeper into different interior design styles.
Top image slider photo credits: Image 1: House & Garden’s ‘The List’, Smith & Butler; Image 2: House & Garden article ‘An uncompromising approach to beauty at the London house of the founders of Jamb’ by Virginia Clark, photography by Owen Gale; Image 3: House & Garden article ‘A serene, refined and artfully simple London house by Jessica Summer’ by Emily Tobin, photography by Jake Curtis; Image 4: House and Garden, Design ideas for a modern Regency Interior, Article by Virginia Clark, Photography by Mel Yates; Image 5: featured on House & Garden’s ‘The List’, Blyth-Collinson Interiors.