A tremendous method of giving your home a completely new look, is to furnish it with antique pieces.
Just by going back a century, Victorian and Edwardian antique pieces can give your home an exquisite and aristocratic look also adding an extraordinary, days-gone-by feeling, which can't ever be experienced in contemporary boxed apartments.
Just remember before you start out, bear in mind that buying antiques calls for a little more attention than purchasing other items for your house.
The first rule of purchasing antique articles is that they should be soundly examined under bright light to check over that they are unscathed and serviceable.
Secondly, if possible articles should be carried outside and checked in natural light to make sure that they are genuinely antique and not counterfeit.
Do not get annoyed if the furniture retailer gives you bad vibes for ascertaining the truth before buying.
It is utterly essential that you get genuine articles without shabby patched work offered as a substitute for precise refurbishment.
One of the leading art forms to have shaped antique furniture was the seventeenth century art form known as Baroque.
Characterized by elaborately large decorative patterns, flamboyant panels and pillars, this art form was popularized in the 17th Century due to its free-thinking roots, under the sovereignty of King Louis XIV of France.
After some time, the robust Baroque moved over to a subtle sensuous Rococo expressive style of furnishing, but under the reign of Louis XIV all main architectural constructions, like The Louvre and The Palace at Versailles were decorated with the eye-catching Baroque style.
Symbolizing military strength and abounding might, Baroque stood for all that was luxurious and sumptuous as exemplified by its dramatic and wide-ranging expressive style.
Many of the most usual furniture articles on which the Baroque patterns flourished were intricate looking-glasses on which were inscribed flowery, involved patterns and floral motifs, the great beds with draped and luxurious spreads and vast cabinets.
As Baroque style furniture has this extremely striking style with detailed motifs, it calls for good deal of space and the proper positioning to prevent it from seeming over-ornate and higgledy-piggledy.
This is especially so, because it is not like the subtle coloring of Renaissance art and its attractively striking conceptions, which blend along with most surroundings, Baroque with its firm usage of luminance and shade and its whirls of palatial movements does involve the right type of backdrop to show it off.
And so if you think that you want a striking and imperial look for your abode try the Baroque look for a change.
But remember to furnish carefully, to prevent your home from looking like an over-cluttered museum.
And so in the future, when you renovate and re-decorate your home, try doing matters a tiny bit differently and and rather more boldly with Baroque.