Category: upholstery
Upholstery ideas and inspiration for French antique and vintage beds
Frenchfinds has a constant stream of creative customers with bucketfuls of interesting ideas on how they want a particular antique or vintage piece of furniture finishing.
Upholstery Inspiration
Recently, we have had lots of fantastic antique and vintage French beds reupholstered for clients in a multitude of different ways.
The variety of fabrics that have been chosen shows the wonderful versatility of using fabric as a decorative tool. To give you a peak of our latest projects and provide inspirations for your own projects here are the before and after shots.
1920′s gilded frame French corbeille bed
This was a really nice project to work on as it put the life back into a beautiful but rare bed for Troughton Creations who specialise in a whole range of high level interior and garden design work.
Before
Simple original calico & hessian covering on the foot and headboard. The side rails retained their original embroidered silk finish.
Antiques sustainable way to have a low carbon footprint
Antiques green alternative to buying new
Antiques are no longer brown, white or any other colour! They’re green!
Buying an antique or vintage piece rather than a new reproduction can save as much as 537kg of carbon dioxide emissions (the equivalent weight of 6 fully grown men).
Antiques 10 times better than new
Figures to indicate how much better for the environment antique & vintage furniture is compared to new furniture has been hard to come by but several articles have popped up recently to highlight this.
Nigel Worboys, a Beaconsfield Antique Dealer quoted in the Antiques Trade Gazette and This is Bristol.co.uk on the launch of a new green initiative says,
“The carbon footprint from antiques’ original production expired a long time ago, and their continued existence has been testament to a life cycle of at least 10 times an equivalent modern item,”
Top tips for choosing an upholstery fabric for French furniture
Frenchfinds French corbeille bed covered in Designers' Guild material
There is a veritable feast of fantastic fabrics available out there with temptingly luscious colours and endless possibilities for revitalising antique furniture or making a bold statement within a room.
At Frenchfinds we have seen how the simple, sublime and explosively colourful can all work exceptionally well with French antique and vintage furniture.
But before getting lost in the heady maze of suppliers, fabric websites and inspirational interior design blogs, we suggest it is worth ticking off some simple check points.
