If you feel bored with such home decoration and want to try some different touch for your house, you might be able to turn to retro style. Indeed, for you who love things in 50’s up to 70’s era, you surely do not feel strange with this retro style. Basically, the word retro itself refers to anything which is designed in old style. However, the term of retro becomes narrowed now to become identified with popular culture in 50’s to 70’s.
Retro Furniture for Interior Design
The usage of retro style is commonly met in clothing style, vehicles, or retro furniture up to home decoration. Indeed, retro style is very flexible and you all could experiment with this retro style by applying to decoration in the rooms of your house. By presenting this retro style in your house, moreover for you who were born in this era, thus this thing could raise your memory about your childhood or youth.
Besides, it is possible that guests visiting your house would be impressed with this style you show. Thus, there are steps you could apply to bring retro impression to your house. The first is choosing pictures of famous figures in 50’s or 70’s era. As we know that retro style has wide timescale between 50;s to 70’s. In this time, it is possible if each year has its own special feature. Thus, you could focus more in the year in which you would raise in the retro home decoration. After selecting more specific timescale, you may find out very famous figure picture in that time, artist, football players, musicians, or singers.
Collect those pictures and display it on strategic places. To get their picture, you could find old magazines in old shops or antique shops. In order to make the picture more lasting, thus before hanging it on the wall, you should install it first in the frames. Otherwise, you could also laminate those pictures and unify it in big board which is placed in one room only. Choose place which often is accessed so that people would see those figures and feel past nostalgia.
Furnishing and Retro Furniture
The second is choosing retro furniture. Retro decoration in your home is not complete without adding retro furniture. In 50’s and 60’s eras, retro furniture tends to be simple with shining surface without many ornaments. Entering 70’s era, retro furniture tends more to the function so that it is shaped in as comfortable as design to use. However, in the late 70’s, retro furniture tends to be more futuristic which reflects the society condition at that time to lead in modernity.
Furniture surface which shines like plastics in white color, stainless steel, and dark colored leather material become very popular. In those years many chairs in plastic surface and egg-shaped begin to be introduced. You could add accessories as the final touch. You just need choose accessories in bright colors which collide one and another like red, green, or blue. The usage of bright colors which looks like tacky could strengthen the retro impression. Thus, you could choose accessories in big and colorful beads.