Decorating With Painted Headboards

I am a massive fan of fake finishes and exquisitely painted vintage fixtures. In reality I am scouring flea markets and vintage shops as we communicate for a 4 poster bed that I want to paint in the Italian fashion.This put up is devoted to the painted headboard which I agree with straight away takes a bed room to a extraordinary stage of refinement.

While the artwork of painted furniture may be traced back to the Egyptians,the art of lacquering turned into added to France starting with the China trade to Europe within the overdue seventeenth century.By the 18th century, richly coloured and distinctive painted furnishings created this sort of frenzy in the course of the courts of Europe that it have become a veritable catalyst for a brand new fashion inside the ornamental arts: the artwork of painted fixtures. By the overdue 18th century each person become painting furnishings and all throughout Europe, it became pretty apparent that the art of painting fixtures had reached the hundreds by penetrating the considerable global of "popular artwork."

The antiques I show in those snap shots are very highly-priced however you can buy lack luster headboards and provide them new lifestyles thru portray, decoupage, stenciling....Just get innovative. As you scroll down you will see examples of ways others have duplicated the look of vintage headboards. Do your homework, find a style to imitate and create your family heirloom.

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With the Renaissance and publicity of oriental cultures, ornamental painting started out to transform. Most drastically turned into the introduction to Chinese lacquer. Many beds and headboards were painted in Chinoiserie syle.

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Handpainted baroque headboard

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18th c Austrian painted bed. The footboards are painted frequently as nicely.

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Spanish Gilded & Painted Bed

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Metal beds are wonderful works of art as well.

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These antiques will give depth and texture to a home's decor. They will gracefully balance the use of painted natural woods, while providing artistic interest, and they will catch the eye in a delightful way without overpowering the overall scheme

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As the interior decorator Ruby Ross Wood wrote in 1917, Italian painted furniture is “the salvation of many a too-dark room.”

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Italian painted headboards shares a sparkling character its unknown makers might have called briosità. They just seem to have the ability to cheer you up!

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Floral bouquets and fruit were often symbolic choices to use when painting the headboard.

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A late Sheraton painted headboard

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Italian (probably Venetian) carved and painted headboard mid-18th century. Crests and coat of arms were popular motifs. Today a monogram is pretty when painted on a headboard.

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If you don't want to be overwhelmed, sometimes just a painted medallion is all you need.

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Whether elegant or simple a painted headboard makes a huge statement in any bedroom

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The Venetians had a fondness for pastels and most of their painted pieces crafted during this time were painted and decorated in soft pastel tones like this headboard.