Vintage Christmas Gifts for Men

I am planning to start a series of posts to help you find the perfect vintage Christmas gift for your loved ones.

Let's start with the hardest - Christmas gift ideas for men - husband, boyfriend, dad, brother, son, nephews and so on...

ORSA MAGGIORE ADVENTURES - Transylvania

Thanks to my beloved Mom, recently I had the opportunity to visit Transylvania - or "Erdely" as it's called in Hungarian. 

It was a wonderful trip, we were visiting beautiful art nouveau cities, lovely small towns hidden in the mountains, a great folk art market...and we saw a lot of poverty, huge gipsy castles, collapsing world heritage monuments, a lot of strange things as well.

If you would like to know a bit more about this controversial place...check out my visual diary:

VINTAGE HOLIDAYS - Retro Halloween, Shabby Chic Thanksgiving

The Holidays are approaching faster than ever, soon time to think about the gifts, the menu and last but not least how to decorate our home?!

I am planning to write another time about Christmas and New Year’s Eve, first let's see the more urgent ones, some DIY home decor ideas for a "retro Halloween" and a "shabby chic Thanksgiving"!

Hopefully this year - if we manage to plan more in advance - we will also be able to quarrel less with our loved ones during the Holiday season...

Vintage table decorations, antique centerpieces, retro wreaths, DIY tips and as usual, beautiful Etsy finds!

Mix it up! - Vintage Halloween decorations

Holidays are great because you can display all the kitchy, golden, shiny, "too much" stuff you have, especially for Halloween, don't be shy to mix antique glasses with vintage colorful pottery and hand-made paper masks on the same shelf!

more retro Halloween at bhg

Recycle, repurpose, upcycle, reclaim - turn it to home decor!

How to turn all the beautiful old junk we were were collecting over the years to something useful but at least decorative?

Antique clothes, vintage textiles, industrial objects, old furniture or lovely collection of useless vintage household items...how to bring new life into them? How to give them a new function?

You can call it recycling, upcycling, repurposing, reclaiming or being enviromentally friendly and going green, fancy words for the same feelings "please can I keep it?" "no way that I have to throw it out"

I was collecting some great home decor ideas how to recycle old treasures, and of course I will advice some etsy finds, gorgeous materials for the crafty and ready-to-use repurposed stuff for the lazier

Chic repurposed mirror from an antique door

more ideas to reuse old doors dishfunctionaldesigns 

Vintage home, interior tour #1 time to confess

New series for vintage lovers - I am planning to show time to time some real vintage homes, interiors and of course etsy finds - to copy their style

As I am mentioning on my shop's about page, in my case the vintage addiction is definitely the fault of some really inspiring women with great vintage home decorating taste...the whole thing started with my creative Mom and lately there is also the Mom of my boyfriend, they both have an excellent eye for harmony and their home is full of wonderful vintage stuff, I just love being there...

So now, the first time I want to show a lovely bedroom furnished by my "future mother in law". Their main bedroom is a delft blue and white antique interior with beautiful vintage Murano glass lamps, antique mirrors in golden frame, colorful paintings, sweet old things and memories