Home Tree Atlas: Home Decor Ideas and Mood Boards

Host A Beautiful Vintage Garden Party: A Mood Board of Ideas for Decorations

The garden is the perfect place to host your vintage party – whether it is for a birthday party or a tea party. Set the mood with some soft glowing lighting, and decorate that food table with vintage inspired pieces. The list of vintage party decoration ideas below will help you transform your garden into a vintage wonderland.

Setting the Mood with Lighting: If your party is set to go into the evening, then you’ll want to have some lighting. This can be done cheaply by hanging up vintage style string lights just like in picture (2) (get them here), using paper lanterns, or use candle lanterns to light up the tables.

You can put candles in Mason jars (3), and even cover the outside of the jars with colorful craft paper.

One of the simplest and cheapest ways of adding lighting is to put candles onto stakes and plant them into the ground – a DIY idea by A Subtle Revelry seen in picture (4).

For more pictures and lighting ideas, have a look at my post here: Vintage Outdoor Lighting Ideas Mood Board

The Food Table: Some vintage party supplies to decorate the tables include using Mason jars as glasses, glass drinks dispensers seen in picture (5), twine to wrap napkins around cutlery sets, and have mismatching plates (6).

Decorate the table with a lace table cloth, a doily table runner or a burlap one. Vintage style glass bottles can be used as table planters (Table Decor: Vintage Centerpiece Ideas)

Birdcages: A birdcage can be used to house plants, string lights, or vintage books as a decorative piece (Home Decor Ideas: Using Birdcages). They can also be used on the food table to house cutlery or sauces.

Bunting: You can get handmade vintage style bunting decorations on Etsy (7).

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A Chalkboard: See if you can incorporate a chalkboard into your decoration plans somehow – just like the one in the vintage garden tea party in picture (8).

This can be as easy as grabbing a piece of thick cardboard and covering it in chalkboard paint (get some here). A sheet of plywood would be better, or check out my DIY post where I used an IKEA Billy bookcase door to make a chalkboard display. Or have a look at my DIY post where I printed out some vintage borders and painted in the empty space with chalkboard paint (Print and Paint: DIY Chalkboard Paint Posters).

Suitcases: Old vintage style suitcases can be used as food stands, or just decorative pieces.

Here are some more mood board posts, where you’ll definitely get more ideas for your vintage party decorations:

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March 19, 2016 in Design Styles, Outdoors

PASSPORT: Rock and Roll Manhattan Loft Tour

This time on PASSPORT, we take a look into the downtown Manhattan loft of Coldplay’s guitarist, Jonny Buckland.

Elle Decor toured around the rooms which have 13 foot high ceilings and huge arched windows.

The space is made up of dark hues and heavily uses matte black. Heavy woods are also used a lot creating a timeless home design – and you can see this with the headboard, custom kitchen island, and the dining table.

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March 16, 2016 in Passport

PASSPORT: Bachelor Pad Russian Loft Tour

This is the kind of loft space that you’d see on a TV show. It has bags and bags of charm and character.

All of the raw industrial materials are exposed, such as the brick walls, hardwood floors, beams, and iron fixtures.Yet mixed into all of this rustic industrial rawness is an artistic side – which you can see through the artwork .

The stage lighting fits well with the pianos in the living room. And have a look at that tire wheel sink stand in the bathroom. This bachelor pad of a loft was designed by Lev Lugovsky of Russia.

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March 16, 2016 in Passport

PASSPORT: 32B Scandinavian Apartment Tour, Goteborg, Sweden

What is so distinctive of Scandinavian interior design, is the lack of color. This corner apartment in the West of Sweden is made up of a black and white color palette. It creates a timeless look and makes all of the golden and brass pieces (like the door to the fireplace) really stand out. The warmth is brought into the rooms through the natural lighting, wooden features, and plants.

By Alvhem Makleri & Interior.

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