Worn wall-cupboards
Presently many articles about home decoration are about using – and creating – rusty and worn things. They call them “vintage” or “old style” or “country style”. You find them in almost any home-decoration paper you open these days. It can be furniture or things in the garden. The items can be of wood or tin or iron. Flaking paint and worn and torn corners or rusty metal… that is THE thing presently.
Worn bench
Is it beautiful? NO, definitely not. At least not in my eyes. It is ugly.
A thing looking like this would never enter my home.
Unless it could be restored, old paint removed, new paint applied.
Flaking paint
The worst example of them all are those rusty cupboards. You either buy them as is, with rust and all (and prepare them so the rust doesn’t stick onto you and your surroundings when you touch and use them), or new, and MAKE them rusty with all kinds of methods. There are plenty of descriptions of how to do that on the Internet.
Rusty cupboard
Images above are borrowed from the internet in various locations.
Actually, I wouldn’t even enter a new tin cupboard into my home. Not even if they were as nice-looking as those IKEA sell (see IKEA models below). They belong in storage rooms or locker rooms. Maybe in hallways. But today you see them in living rooms, bedrooms, anywhere. No, thank you. Not for me.
