My Best Tips For Finding Vintage Art (My Most Prized Posessions)

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the best way to make your house interesting on a budget is through original art. Everyone has vertical space to fill, and it requires zero functional considerations so art is where ... The post My Best Tips For Finding Vintage Art (My Most Prized Posessions) appeared first on Emily Henderson.

Feb 19, 2025 - 12:30
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My Best Tips For Finding Vintage Art (My Most Prized Posessions)

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the best way to make your house interesting on a budget is through original art. Everyone has vertical space to fill, and it requires zero functional considerations so art is where you can be interesting, get weird, have fun, lean into big colors and it can change the context of your whole room (AND LIFE!!). BUT, because it’s purely decorative there seems to be this imaginary pressure that it has to really represent your style, as if it has to MEAN something, and because of that people are often paralyzed and walls remain blank for years and years. And listen, contemporary original art can be so expensive (rightly so), so people buy placeholder art at Homegoods, never to be changed out. I’ve collected vintage art for decades – both before I had any money and still, and my goodness my collection is pretty darn epic. So here are some of my best tips:

You Don’t Have To “Get” It – You Just Have To Like It                         </div>
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