Valentine’s Day Decor in the Kitchen
Wondering how to decorate your kitchen for Valentine’s Day? Here are vintage decor ideas with a sweet romantic theme
Valentine’s is a short season, but it can be sweet;) By using a transitional color scheme as your base, you can easily add simple Valentine touches and then switch the accent color when it’s over! The other day I shared the “Subtle and Soft Valentine Decor” in my living room, where I used soft pastel colors. Today I’ll share my Valentine’s Day Decor in the Kitchen, based on vintage sepia tones.
Valentine’s Day Decor in the Kitchen
Base Your Valentine’s Day Decor on Sepia-Toned Color
My most recent dishware, Friendly Village, is probably what started the sepia tone theme. The subtle brown transferware pattern with it’s barn red church, covered in snowfall has been a nice change for winter on our open kitchen shelves. The grainsack striped cafe curtains I whipped up were probably influencing me, too {“Easy DIY Cafe Curtains”}.
I decided to round up my vintage sepia ephemera and corral all the brown accessories I could think of. I usually only use my brown items in the fall, so using them for Valentine’s in the winter is a fun change! It makes me think of snow-covered leafless trees outside my window!
Display Vintage Collections for Texture
Character-rich old wood drawers, brown glass bottles and parchment colored old books brought the sepia tones to life. I used my collection of old scales and clocks for graphic punch and to celebrate a new year ( I always like number motifs at the beginning of the year;) Some fabric scrap rolls added another element of texture also.
Red Velvet cake is chocolate brown with red, right? That’s the look I was going for…and a good enough reason to pick some cupcakes up at the store! My “Vintage Divided Tray” and divided drawer {Divided Drawer: From Workbench to Centerpiece”} both got called into action, this time standing on their sides.
I hung the sepia toned artwork on my vintage bedspring in our back entry. I’ve been wanting to use this old sheep picture and oak frame that had been my parent’s forever, but hadn’t been able to find a spot. It marries perfectly with my great grandparents wedding certificate and some other sepia items I had.
Add Red and Pink to Brown for Valentine’s Decor
I’ve been seeing vintage brown bottles all over the internet lately. I decided to pull out my collection and add them to my chicken feeder. The large vessels got treated to some big branches for a little more modern vibe. Have you been noticing this oversized branch look lately? I think it kind of shakes things up and keeps all my old stuff from not looking too…old fashioned;)
Of course, vintage lovers gotta love some vintage, too! My mended hearts bunting added a little pink to the red velvet party, and an old postcard and pink depression are perfect for Valentines Day decor, also!
The birdcage I decorated with Valentine mini paper bunting {“12 Ways to Decorate a Vintage Birdcage”} takes center stage on our kitchen cupboards along with some pretty floral frames and a cuckoo clock. Red covered books and red paged books are grouped together, simply standing for impact.
Fresh Flowers for a Romantic Touch
To finish off the sweetness, fresh pink flowered plants make everything feel special. Happy Girl just got home from visiting Paris with school, so some appropriately titled vintage sheet music created a simple foundation. Brown and milkglass containers continue the color scheme. I still love looking at our repurposed, industrial coffee table {“From Vintage Roof Rack to Cool Coffee Table”}.
A sepia-toned color theme just feels so cozy on a snowy winter day like today! When Valentine’s Day is over, the red/pink accents can be switched over to fresh greens for March! Hope these ideas encouraged you to see that transitional color scheme can be a wonderful base for your decor. You can easily add Valentine touches and then switch the accent color when the holiday is over! Did you enjoy this Valentine’s Day Decor in the Kitchen tour?
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I had the best time looking at all your kitchen vintage stuff. My mom had a similar alarm clock and I had a traveling/foldup alarm clock similar to yours, too! AND the silverplate instant coffee cannister–I was given one in ’73 when I got married! Al HATES to take me to the transfer station (I still call it the dump!) as he knows I am looking for a crib-sized set of springs like yours! Our Maine scenery is not as quite as white as yours–this week–but it will be!
Oh, I hope you find a crib spring, Kathy! Do you have any luck on FB marketplace in your area? I would imagine lots of people are trying to get rid of the old cribs because they’re not to code anymore. The transfer station might be sending the metal springs to the scrap yard for $.
Thanks so much for getting back to me. 🙂
Love all your vintage & decor ideas! Have been a subscriber for quite some time & every time I open your blog I am reminded how familiar you look to me but can’t quite place you! I’ll just keep probing the hinterlands of my brain! Keep the wonderful ideas coming!
Thanks for faithfully reading, Diane! If you figure it out, let me know. I know I never forget a face (but forget names all the time) and it drives me crazy till I figure it out!
Hi,
I love all the touches of red. I was wondering the name of the book at the beginning of your post about February. Does it talk about all of the months? I just love anything that goes through the twelve months of the year. Cathy
Cathy, Yes the book has several pages for each month and illustrates what’s going on in the garden and with nature. Unfortunately I think I have it packed away in a storage unit currently:( I picked it up at a thrift store, of course. I want to say Edith Wharton? I just did a little google search and didn’t find anything, though. I usually have it sitting on an easel, open to one of the pictures for that month. Sorry I can’t be of more help, currently! This in-limbo, house move thing is really starting to cramp my vintage-loving style:(
Such a pretty and unusual color combination, Lora…so pretty!
It really is a fun combo for Valentine’s in a wintry, cold state, Linda! I’ll just take away the red and switch to green in March;)
Oh Lora its all beautiful, but that view out your window is magical!
Thank you so much for sharing at TFT!
Thanks, Amber! The snow is making everything pretty magical right now! It makes winter so much more bearable;)
I love all of your vintage Valentine kitchen accents, Lora. Thanks for sharing at Vintage Charm!
Your welcome, Cecilia!
How perfectly lovely it all looks. The red buttons sewn in a heart shape on the bingo card is adorable! And I love the sheep herding art. Snow outside the window is quaint to me because Valentines Day here in FL looks SO different…we are entering our planting season for annuals with temps in the 60s to 70s. The nurseries swell with geraniums, pansies, petunias & impatience. My husband buys flowers for me but they’re in pots and he digs the holes too. I also don’t do fancy for gifts preferring practical things like garden shears & fertilizer! Fortunately both my husband & I speak the same love language, quality time spent together, so working together in the garden is like a hot date! haha
Pamela, We can only dream about outdoor flowers here…for several more months! I love your “hot date” comment; hilarious! Thanks!
Will off to hunt for some red and green for March either here at home or thrift store. Excellent ideas; I do have some little quilted hearts and some I made from an old blouse of my mom’s. When she died, I kept some of those old clothes she wore everyday and am trying to think of things to make with them.Thanks Lora.
Great idea for her old clothes, Marlene! That will make them an extra special memory for Vday!