Setting up a vintage garden - Creative ideas for the "old" look

Lace, ruffles, delicate tones and old-fashioned frills - vintage is more popular than ever. Did you know that the garden can also be set up in a vintage style? Here are our ideas.

Vintage here and vintage there - it's the trend at all. Clothing, everyday objects or furniture with a retro look have never been so popular. But what is "vintage" actually? Since almost everyone is talking about it now, you hardly dare to ask.

The term vintage (in German "old-fashioned") hides older objects, clothes and accessories. This doesn't just mean finds from grandma's attic, but also things made especially for this trend that just look old.

In the meantime, we can no longer only see this playful style in clothing and home accessories, but are also discovering more and more accessories and furnishings for gardens and terraces.

But how do you give your garden that typical vintage flair? Where do you start? Which accessories are suitable for outdoor use? And where do I get the "old" items from?

Questions upon questions to which we would like to give you the answer here. Get some inspiration.

One thing in advance: The vintage style allows for different decoration options. We just want to give you an incentive here. Then you can of course let your creativity run free.

Garden furniture with vintage flair

Even if you can achieve a lot here and there with small decorative accessories, the terrace is and will remain the focal point in a garden. And that's where you should start and spread the vintage flair. And what is the number one eye-catcher on a terrace? Of course the seating. Of course, old pieces of furniture from grandma's times have a special charm. They have character and tell stories. Unfortunately, not many people have access to various old garden furniture these days. If you are lucky on the Internet and still find a supplier, you often have to reckon with horrendous prices for the pieces of furniture. Ultimately, demand determinesPrice.

You don't have to do without, of course. For example, I found special seating made of recycled fishboat wood on home24.de. Here only the wood from old fishing boats is used. If that's not vintage enough, I don't know what is. The hard-wearing and durable garden furniture is handmade and each product is unique due to the different color composition. In no time you have created a vintage-style eye-catcher on the terrace.

» By the way: Garden furniture with a vintage look can also be conjured up from Euro pallets. You can find detailed instructions on this at selbst.de. And if you want to perfect the seating area with a shabby chic look, you can find instructions at selbstmachen.de. This is how individual garden furniture is created step by step, which even makes the neighbors jealous.

Garden accessories as the icing on the cake

Of course nothing works without accessories. If we're honest, they make up about 80 percent of the overall impression.

If you want to set up your garden in a vintage style, you will find plenty of inspiration on the internet. I'll introduce you to the classic accessories here:

Zinc Decorations:

Who doesn't know them? Zinc tubs, buckets, jugs, containers and jugs. They can be seen in every vintage garden and look really good with fresh flowers and plants. How about that, for example?

The zinc objects are really rustic when they are already rusty.

Exceptional plantings:

Old objects are the alpha and omega of the vintage look. But these things often lack that certain something. My tip: simply plant these objects. Like here e.g.:

Set accents with lighting:

Light should not be missing in a vintage garden. Candles and lamps don't always have to be on the table? What do you think of these ideas, for example?

Vintage Garden Lighting Lanterns

From new to old

Some things just can't be bought. Ideas have often settled in people's heads, but there is nothing to be found in retail far and wide. Now you don't have to shelve the idea. Many accessories and items can still be refurbished. Here are three options:

New color - new look

With vintage, it doesn't always have to be wood-colored. Light pastel tones such as pink and mint are particularly popular with women, but grey, purple and a subtle blue are also suitable for a vintage look.Look optimally suited. A large selection of colors for painting wood, terracotta and even zinc is available in every specialist market. For wood and zinc, however, the experts recommend pre-treatment!

Also read: Repainting wooden garden furniture - step by step instructions

Decorating with foil

Decorative foils are another way of pimping up your furniture, individual items or accessories. Of the ones mentioned here, this is actually the simplest variant, since the corresponding objects simply have to be stuck on.

Here I found a large selection at creatisto.com, for example. Available are among others:

various floral prints
old VW Bullys
Slides in newspaper look
Retro Pattern
and much much more

Aging wood artificially

For the vintage look, wood is of course a classic. But if you want to build something yourself, for example, you often don't have any old wood ready for it. But that's not a bad thing, because wood can be artificially aged with three simple ingredients.

This video shows exactly how this works: