Breadboards in Vintage Decor

Hello Friends and Welcome to the Lifestyle of Love bimonthly gathering where we share how we use vintage items in our décor. This month we have a fun topic of "Breadboards". These workhorse kitchen items of the past used to be plentiful at garage sales and flea markets but recently are becoming harder and harder to find. And those you can find have crazy high prices. So I'm sharing some old ones, some new ones, and reproduction pieces.

Thanks to Cindy from County Road 407, who puts together these fun Hops where we focus on vintage topics. If you're coming from Cindy's, and her 5 Ways to Display Cutting Boards, I'm so glad you're here to enjoy all our takes on breadboards, cutting boards, and chopping boards. 

My first cutting board was from the early 80's when I found this "Piggy" cutting board at a crafts fair. He's super heavy and although I haven't taken a knife to him, he's been used as a cheese board long before anyone knew the term "charcuterie" and as a trivet and of course for décor along my backsplash in most of my kitchens.

Here he is showing off in the Cookbook Cupboard for the summer.

I wanted to share a grouping of them here in the garden room in a vignette. The ones along the back, including the painted one with a grainsack theme are new, but the ones in the metal basket are vintage. I use several of the "vintage" ones that I purchased myself and that I bleach on a regular basis; the others are just for display. 

For interest, my grouping needed something besides breadboards so I added an antique white ironstone pitcher marked "Virginia", on the bottom. Last week when I was out at the vintage market I happened to find this flashcard with "Breadboard" printed on it. How perfect!! what a fun little coincidence!

Several years ago at a vintage market I came across a vendor with new home made cutting boards that were a great price, but the wood grain wasn't very pretty. So after living with it a few days I decided to give it a little paint job to make it a bit more special and to stand out a bit. At first I painted it with ASCP in an antique white, but that was still pretty boring, so adding a grain sack stripe was the answer. Of course this one is for décor only since it's been painted.

You can read that post Painted Grainsack Breadboard Here

This large round breadboard at the back is a reproduction from Antique Farmhouse. I bought two at the time, this round one and a rectangular one. The rectangular one didn't have a great finish and once again the magic paintbrush took it on.

I was looking for a platform or riser to corral smaller items on the farmtable, and thought I'd try painting this breadboard instead of spending money on something new.

Large Painted Breadboard Centerpiece

I love using this now and it makes a cohesive statement with any vignette or tabletop tableau.

Here it is last year with a display of my French Faience pottery and a large basket display of faux lilacs. I've found myself using the bread board for almost every tabletop display since then.

July 4th Farmhouse Tablescape

The lowly breadboard might not seem like an important décor piece, but they work for American Farmhouse, French Farmhouse, Retro, Primitive, and Cottage decor. You can also get creative and use them in garden decor settings, dining rooms, kitchens and food display. 

Here are a few other posts where I'm sharing my breadboards and cutting boards.

Summer Buffetscape with Ticking

Breadboards and Spode Transferware

French Country Styling on the Baker's Rack

Late Summer Sideboard

I hope you'll continue the Hop and head over to visit Laura at Decor to Adore where she's sharing her breadboards in her summer kitchen.

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