Decoration: Your home is ready for a 1970 Revival - Decorating Ideas For Small Rooms

Decoration: Your home is ready for a 1970 Revival

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Decoration: Your home is ready for a 1970 Revival - The 1970s was an exciting time for the style and design ?. The austere 1950s had picked up on straight-lined modernism in 1930 and run with it; radical social changes of the 1960s threw the aesthetic familiar in the air and down to earth in a psychedelic explosion and when the midcentury slipped in the 1970s, a bold new era of design installed.

Thanks to a change in mortgage laws, more than ever, the British were able to buy their own homes, fueling a passion for DIY and customization. But while the first part of the decade was dominated by pop art, bright colors, emerging technologies and newly available plastic furniture, the second half was shaped by 1973 oil crisis, recession and high unemployment. So in came a return to nature and a more homespun philosophy, evident in the popularity of Victorian flowers and hand-me-down, wood, rattan and rustic cuisine, and crafts such as macramé.

While the era of design to plunder, there is a lot to draw on ... Indeed, many of us were comfortably flirt with 1970s touch for a while without even thinking style references: consider ubiquitous Tom Dixon - and gloriously retro - pendants copper globe; , Bold patterns clash; accessories gold old school - and a renewed love for houseplants, who were all in the soft-focus decade.

But we still have to go in the 1970's look wholeheartedly. While you might not be in place for a resumption of all-out brown walls, synthetic materials, patterns of the rainbow, from veneer fireplaces and orange on almost everything, there are many more details from the end of the tail of the midcentury era of love, as well as clever ways to give some of the less obvious ideas a new update (hello modern stone cladding, oh yes). These rooms inspire your inner child ... 1970