Vintage Crafts: 75 Do-It-Yourself Decorating Projects Using Candles, Colors, and Other Flea Market Finds

Decorate with the flair of yesterday and create the house of your dreams.

Vintage flair isn’t just classy and cute; it’s fun to create and perfect for any budget! So let your creativity run wild on trips to the flea market, and don’t back down from that deal at the yard sale. With Vintage Crafts, use paper scraps, teacups, and a splash of paint to decorate your house room by room.

More than just a craft book, Vintage Crafts features recipes fresh from the countryside, lessons for safe and easy outdoor improvement, and tips for keeping your house eco-friendly. This is the ultimate home decor resource from Sweden’s number one lifestyle blogger, Clara Lidström. Learn to liven up secondhand clothes, turn old fabrics into patchwork projects, and interject some ’50s-era chic into your thrift store finds.

Elegant, old-style country projects include:

• Champagne box bookshelves
• Wallpapering with maps
• Silhouette frames
• Baby shoe flower planters
• Bark and twig lanterns
• And so much more to make with your two hands and flea market bargains!

So look around: if your house is full of scraps and never-used knickknacks, turn them into something beautiful, useful, and made by you! With Vintage Crafts at your crafting table, your hands will never be idle again!
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Clara Lidström is a professional photographer and journalist, and she writes one of Scandinavia’s most popular blogs, UnderbaraClara. Encouraging an environmentally friendly, country-living lifestyle, she blogs about cooking, home decorating, home-growing food, and crafting. She lives with husband Jacob, son Bertil, a dog, two pigs, and some chickens in Västerbotten, Sweden.