Another evening I knocked over an older instrument, an antique wooden rake I have propped up in my kitchen, for the umpteenth time. Briefly I considered chucking it into the storage space. If it came down to it, even though, I could not. It is such an intriguing piece, remembering the silent times until the leaf blower has been invented. Other architects and architects on share my love of using tools as decor, whether they are farm implements, vintage garden gear, gears as well as antique toolboxes. Here is a glance at two methods to give old tools a new life around the house.
Smith & Vansant Architects PC
1. Utilize them as sculptural found art. In this farmhouse renovation, a farm implement becomes a sculpture. Beyond it, the proprietor’s sailboat mast from childhood functions as the railroad, along with an antique snowshoe rounds outside the found object vignette.
Bradford Woodworking
Dining Pitchfork Chair – $400
2. Find tools utilized in new types. This darling chair allows you to do a double take; seem closer and you will realize its back is a pitchfork and its legs are ax handles. It also comes in a stool version.
Louise Lakier
3. Create artistic handles. At the inventive home of two Seattle artists, older tools and gears form the gate hardware.
Color Specialist, Charlotte
These door handles are not only great for a nursery or garden shop, but could also work well on a potting shed, barn or other outbuilding.
Brooklyn Limestone
4. Find artful ways to display tools that you use on a regular basis. In blogger Brooklyn Limestone’s workplace, crafts are celebrated with a functional, nicely framed pegboard for tools, paired with an oversized set of shears.
Rikki Snyder
This workshop takes its own instrument hanging to a new level: The wall looks as if Marcel Duchamp composed it.
Cory Spencer Partners
5. Add country charm to an area. In this gardener’s kitchen, antique tools bring a touch of rustic style to this polished white kitchen.
Patrick Sutton Associates
6. Enhance the appearance of age. Hang one large antique tool with plenty of space around it. In this patina-style area, the antique pitchfork stands out against the ivory walls, along with the wood plays off the aged wood onto the armoire.
7. Utilize a vintage toolbox as a mobile display piece. Toolboxes have a charm all of their own, and you can use them as in-boxes, garden trugs, craft provide corrals, planters and much more.
Kasey Buick
These toolboxes look great in rooms using a vintage-modern-style like this one.
Kelley & Company Home
8. Utilize garden tools as outside decor. Some may be just decorative; others it’s possible to pull down and utilize while gardening.
9. Use your imagination. I shared this favourite garden gate in the Atlanta Botanical Gardens a couple weeks before, and it inspired this ideabook.
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