The selection of the finishing details for your home is also the fun And The difficult part of a renovation. From the selection of paintings to fabrics to hardware to tiles, these small options, take it from a construction site to an actual home. So you want to make sure you make the right decisions.
As a natural vintage objective, I spent most of my conversion studio and my time collecting vintage furniture and decor in order to fill my finished home with unique finds. When I was to choose from with endless tiles and options, I knew that I wanted to try to decorate with vintage.
I stumbled on one of my nightly round pinterest (I'm a terrible sleeper) on Delft tiles and immediately fell in love. These iconic blue and white tiles marry vintage charm with a feeling of history and offer so much more personality than modern iterations. So I make a case to revive Delft tiles – and the experts agree.
Is it time to bring Vintage -Dolft back?
(Photo credit: Vaughan Design & Development / Photography Chris Snook)
You can recognize Delft tiles but do not know your name in itself. These legendary (mostly) blue and white tiles are aligned in history and full of characters and are detailed and yet closely painted with small icons and scenes that tell a story. But where do you come from?
'Delfware comes from the Netherlands and describes the earthly bodies from Delft, a small town in southern Holland in the 1600s. These beloved blue tiles were inspired by the blue and white porcelain imported from China, but showed scenes from typical Dutch lives: windmills, tulips, clogs and farm life.
They are small, factually sweet and bring personality bags to the kitchen and throughout the house.
(Photo credit: simple English design)
Merlin Wright, design director at Plain English Design, explains how her co-founder Tony Niblock has long admired the Delft tiles to work in all types of houses, from the modest cottage to the Grand Mansion.
“In Suffolk, a district in which many Dutch Protestants came to East Anglia since the 16th century, simple English cupboards are made, in which it has a significant influence to avoid religious persecution,” explains Merlin. “They brought Dutch ceramics with them, including the ubiquitous Delft tiles, which were a gross interpretation of a fine Chinese porcelain, whose naive charm made them a popular and practical choice for English kitchens, bathrooms and fireplaces.”
“Original tiles are now very expensive, but high -quality reproductions are still popular and are available in painted or simple variations,” continues Merlin. 'Large areas of the painted tiles can be overwhelming, but they work well if they are used in concentrated blocks such as a back splash behind a stove or sink. The simple tiles can be used for larger areas in which their slight irregularities lead to tonal and text interest. '
(Photo credit: Petra Palumbo)
“Originally to be found in houses from the 18th and 19th centuries, the resuscitation of Delft tiles is another example of the country house that finds its place in today's homeland,” says Petra Palumbo tile designer, which produces Delft tiles with a contemporary phrase.
“Delft Tiles use the new mood for thoughtful, targeted designs with a nostalgic but modern aesthetics and have a universal attraction because everyone can apply the designs to their life,” she explains. “Every combination of motif or illustration is completely personal and often deeply sentimental and reflects the movement towards characterful, individual interiors.”
That originally led me to the idea of procuring my own Delft tiles. After a quick Google search, I realized that I was able to go down the mass production or tailor-made route and create a series of tiles that had real personal meaning for me, my family and my home. Including my dog.
(Photo credit: Bambi a'lynn interior design / photography Tobin Davies)
When I started looking for my renovation in Delft tiles, I was put on by the sweet color palette and the pretty motifs. But it was actually the storytelling that really defeated the deal.
Traditionally, vintage delf tiles of everyday vignettes were by hand, which recorded the essence of life centuries ago. But modern artists who are still by hand, including Petra, create, enable them to play around with individual options that can show their greatest loved ones: from the house in which they grew up to their pets or their favorite snack.
“I think you have enjoyed a rescue in recent years because more people are looking for household goods that will take over the years,” continues Petra. “Dolnity tiles are available in so many designs-for example, mine are quite playful and playful what I think because they increasingly want sentimental, thoughtful products in their houses to be able to refer to their unique life.”
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When I became more and more popular in Vintage kitchens, I started to create a back splash for my own space from Delft tiles. Thanks to their unique and meaningful design, I knew that this was not a tile that I wanted to use on a large scale.
Instead of having it on an entire wall, I think of using it to highlight and adorn my coffee corner that was worked out of a small niche and writes after a character. Similar to the pretty Delft Cipper Range Cooker Nook, which is hidden in this traditional red kitchen [above] Designed by Devol, who has just launched her first Ditsy Delft wallpaper.
I am also on the mission to convince my husband that a Delft fireplace or the stove is absolutely forward for our newly painted blue living room. You not only work perfectly for the program, but also contribute much more to a room than a cell or cement tiles and help us create an unexpected and personalized moment in the heart of our house.
And that's exactly why I do the case for the comeback from Delft. These personally packed, detailed tiles remain one of the most beautiful and unique opportunities to tell a story in your home that brings with it part of your own history. The perfect cherry on a long, slowly renovating journey.
When I was towards the end of my renovation, I gave myself more and more about designing a house that feels deeply personally. With their rich history and hand -painted charm, Delft Tiles offer exactly that.
Whether regained finds of this whispering of the past or tailor -made pieces that capture moments that make sense to me, they bring a feeling of art and history that is difficult to replicate. So maybe it is really a high time for a revival of Delft tiles – not only for your pretty charm, but also for the way you enable us to create tiles (and often rather boring material) to create spaces that feel unique to us.