So is your style: Retro - What is After the sober elegance of midcentury style, retro look, born a few decades later, a little more flexible and fun. Soft, natural tones midcentury style gave way to bold oranges, dark brown and creamy yellow, and the model is also big news, with swirling lines and uninviting repetitions splashed across the carpet, bed linen and curtains. Big, chunky characteristics are also at home in a retro pattern, either an exposed brick fireplace or sofa below! Seventies fashion materials include Formica, this colorful workhorse of the kitchen and the dark wood and smoked glass. Today, however, the look can be mixed with touches of contemporary glamor and finishes to bring beautifully to date
Why it works :. There is a sense of fun, even in excess, about a retro system, which ensures that it seems striking, but does not take itself too seriously. With designers such as Orla Kiely referring to this period of their china and bed linen designs, and many original parts of the Seventies retro still available in stores, it is also an easy look at the source.
You'll love it if: you have the Bay City Rollers on your iPod, you think oranges and olives belong in your color, not the refrigerator, and you can still remember when the nylon sheets were the last word in stylish bedding.
Why it works :. There is a sense of fun, even in excess, about a retro system, which ensures that it seems striking, but does not take itself too seriously. With designers such as Orla Kiely referring to this period of their china and bed linen designs, and many original parts of the Seventies retro still available in stores, it is also an easy look at the source.
You'll love it if: you have the Bay City Rollers on your iPod, you think oranges and olives belong in your color, not the refrigerator, and you can still remember when the nylon sheets were the last word in stylish bedding.
Cortney Bishop Design
Add an accent
You should wet your house in the orange paint for a retro feel. Integrating a handful of pieces that nod to the look will add depth to your diet. Here wonderful steel and tubular yellow leather chairs contribute a little retro style in a dining space eclectic.
You should wet your house in the orange paint for a retro feel. Integrating a handful of pieces that nod to the look will add depth to your diet. Here wonderful steel and tubular yellow leather chairs contribute a little retro style in a dining space eclectic.
Weave in a certain pattern
swirling lines bold, contrasting shades capture the retro feel, but you can update it by choosing a monochrome colorful patterns taken on the period. The striking design of this carpet has a retro feel and teaming with crazy bubble chairs and orange upholstery other ramps up to the Seventies style.
See more daring monochrome ideas
swirling lines bold, contrasting shades capture the retro feel, but you can update it by choosing a monochrome colorful patterns taken on the period. The striking design of this carpet has a retro feel and teaming with crazy bubble chairs and orange upholstery other ramps up to the Seventies style.
See more daring monochrome ideas
MELOCCO and Moore Architects
Bring update
Take the classic ingredients of a retro kitchen - dark brown cabinets, backsplash and have orange light green faience - but source of each new element to a new update on the seventy years to look. This kitchen refers brilliantly retro style, but creates a look a little cleaner, less cluttered.
Take the classic ingredients of a retro kitchen - dark brown cabinets, backsplash and have orange light green faience - but source of each new element to a new update on the seventy years to look. This kitchen refers brilliantly retro style, but creates a look a little cleaner, less cluttered.
David Churchill - Architectural Photographer
hanging out with her
spacious living areas that put strolled to the top of the priority list were key ingredients of the retro house to channel that spirit by introducing many seats in your diet. A hanging chair adds a shot of seventy fresh pure.
spacious living areas that put strolled to the top of the priority list were key ingredients of the retro house to channel that spirit by introducing many seats in your diet. A hanging chair adds a shot of seventy fresh pure.
Enclosures Architects
use in every room
Even a child's room may be suitable for a retro scheme, as this picture shows. Here, great lighting, walls and turquoise accents of green and yellow bring color, who love children, but with a design background, also.
Browse rooms most colorful children
Even a child's room may be suitable for a retro scheme, as this picture shows. Here, great lighting, walls and turquoise accents of green and yellow bring color, who love children, but with a design background, also.
Browse rooms most colorful children
JWT Associates
Check it out
Floor tiles laid in a pattern of classic checkerboard are often associated with American diners of the fifties, but put them in a shade more retro orange and brown bring you the bang look in the seventy years.
Floor tiles laid in a pattern of classic checkerboard are often associated with American diners of the fifties, but put them in a shade more retro orange and brown bring you the bang look in the seventy years.
UBERDESIGNHOUSE
Take Class
Paint your walls with a design rather than head to toe in one shade, is a great way to bring a touch of retro style to your space. This show continues his band of sludge tones down the hall, to create a sense of movement. comfortable seating and an oversized light complete the look, and turn the space into something Austin Powers might approve.
Paint your walls with a design rather than head to toe in one shade, is a great way to bring a touch of retro style to your space. This show continues his band of sludge tones down the hall, to create a sense of movement. comfortable seating and an oversized light complete the look, and turn the space into something Austin Powers might approve.
Holly Marder
Max it up
is more often in a real retro room, so layer up the rich orange, brown and yellow tones, add some patterned wallpaper, and get these ceramics Seventies chunky and out on the display. Fondue anyone?
is more often in a real retro room, so layer up the rich orange, brown and yellow tones, add some patterned wallpaper, and get these ceramics Seventies chunky and out on the display. Fondue anyone?
Ida Lifestyle
Head to the bure
often sharp retro style to the bure, with crochet and patchwork among the favored textiles and simple furniture with colorful upholstery grooving in the diet, too.
often sharp retro style to the bure, with crochet and patchwork among the favored textiles and simple furniture with colorful upholstery grooving in the diet, too.
Enclosures Architects
Think big
large-scale lighting and large features, architectural bold are the heart of the retro look. This staircase has both, with its eccentric balustrade, illuminated by a funky chandelier. There is also a suitable paint retro shades of orange and red on a wall.
large-scale lighting and large features, architectural bold are the heart of the retro look. This staircase has both, with its eccentric balustrade, illuminated by a funky chandelier. There is also a suitable paint retro shades of orange and red on a wall.
H is for home
Team with neutral
it is not necessary to cover the colored walls for a retro feel. Insert the yellow, orange and red brick this time on small items first, bed linen for the cushions, weaving in against neutral walls for easy-to-live with the result.
Is retro star anywhere in your home? Tell us what you like - or hate -. On the style in the comments below
it is not necessary to cover the colored walls for a retro feel. Insert the yellow, orange and red brick this time on small items first, bed linen for the cushions, weaving in against neutral walls for easy-to-live with the result.
Is retro star anywhere in your home? Tell us what you like - or hate -. On the style in the comments below