Vintage Furnishings for Sustainable Living
What Do I Look For When Making a Selection?
A course by Theodora Melnik , Designer and Photographer
Joined June 2021
About the video: What Do I Look For When Making a Selection?
Overview
“Now I will explain my mood board to you and what it is worth looking for when looking for inspiration and home furnishings, such as quality and originality.”
In this video lesson Theodora Melnik addresses the topic: What Do I Look For When Making a Selection?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Vintage Furnishings for Sustainable Living. Learn how to source the right furniture and accessories for your vintage style and create unique, inviting spaces that showcase your eye for detail .
Partial transcription of the video
“What do I look for when making a selection? Last time I showed you how I make a mood board and in this lesson I want to go through my mood board with you. Why did I choose the things that you saw on my mood board? As you may have seen I have pictures from the interior area and combined from the exterior area. The room we want to set up has a table, so i chose one which matches the rest of the mood pictures in my color palette. As you can see I left it on white so that the eye moves there and thus becomes clear, even if the mood board is not explained to you, that this is probably a key issu...”
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Course summary for: Vintage Furnishings for Sustainable Living
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Decoration, Interior Decoration

Theodora Melnik
A course by Theodora Melnik
Theodora Melnik is a digital creator from Berlin with a passion for vintage interior design that she shares with her more than 178K Instagram followers. Although she studied a degree in history and began working as a copywriter, she had always been drawn to interior design, constantly remodeling and redesigning her home in her spare time. What started as a hobby eventually blossomed into a full-blown career. Over the years, her work has been featured in publications such as AD Germany, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Glamour.
Interior design allows her to channel her creativity and make clients' dream spaces come true by translating their needs and values into the perfect furnishings. Sometimes all it takes to develop a tailored design concept is some spur-of-the-moment decisions, while other times, it requires months of planning and meticulous preparation. The unique style provided by retro decor isn't the only thing that attracts Theodora to vintage design, she also values its inherent virtues, including sustainability.
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