White Dressing Tables & Vintage Interior Design Ideas

Anyone looking for interior design ideas would be hard pushed to find a look as comforting and welcoming as a vintage inspired scheme. Harking back to an era where life was led at a slower pace, where family life was everything and at a time when many people wanted to create a relaxing and calm feel within their homes after the war years, this is a look that’s easy to put together and a delight to live with.

This is a look with its roots in a time when the policy was to make do and mend, which meant that the resulting home décor came together in a mix and match fashion, with furniture that had been restored and handed down. So, forget matching suites and sets and invest instead in one-off pieces of furniture instead — customisable items are ideal for creating this look, allowing you to tailor them to suit your own interior design ideas at the same time as fitting in with the theme.

As well as looking at more rustic, shabby chic vintage design, consider the retro furniture movement too. This is a look that relies on quirky, fun and bold pieces of furniture with a very practical function and is very easily combined with contemporary backdrops.

If you’re still stuck for interior design ideas, there are a few staple furniture items that will help to bring the look together.

The White Dressing Table

There’s something quite whimsical and romantic about vintage and retro interior schemes and while colour most certainly has its place in this style of room, white furniture is an important element in getting the look to work, adding a fresh, yet dreamy quality.

The bedroom is the very last place you want clutter, and vintage-style bedrooms suit white dressing tables down to the ground — few bedrooms from the 1940s, 50s or 60s would have been without a white dressing table.

Choose a design which is elegant in form and don’t feel that you’re restricted to just painted white furniture — opting for a piece with a more retro feel such as Zespoke’s, in a white gloss finish, means not only that the whole look is given a more modern twist, but also that any colour used elsewhere in the room will have all the more impact.

The Retro Side Table

While the overall appearance of retro and vintage interiors was hugely important, one of the main criteria of these spaces is that they had to work well on a practical level — put simply, good looks alone were not enough to earn furniture a place in a vintage living room. It had to be useful too.

This is where the retro side table comes in. While side tables may not be the attention-grabbing focal points that vintage coffee tables are, they add another visual element, as well as providing a service. Offering an extra spot for popping your hot drink or book down and offering storage spaces beneath, retro side tables also make an ideal home for any decorative vintage or retro finds you may have picked up to enhance your overall scheme.

Using a bespoke side table allows you to bring in colours and designs not available elsewhere. Feel like your retro scheme needs livening up with a splash of 60s orange, or that your vintage-style living room would benefit from some ice-cream candy shades? That’s not a problem when you get to choose the colour yourself.

The Vintage Coffee Table

Taking pride of place in the centre of the living room, the coffee table is usually the main focal point of the room, around which everyone gathers to put their feet up, chat, play games or simply rest their drink in front of the fire. Whatever you plan to do around yours, make sure it adds something, visually, to the room. In the case of vintage interiors, opting for a vintage coffee table is an important step towards anchoring the scheme.

Choose from upcycled pieces for an eclectic look, such as painted vintage finds or bespoke coffee tables like these, which can be customised in a colour and finish of your choice – and keep things low level and curved. Just make sure whatever you choose is one-of-a-kind.