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	Retro Style Interior Design

After you have decided to redecorate your house in Retro style, you should know what it is and how to include it in your home.

What is Retro?

The 50s and 60s saw emergence of more vivid and bolder colors as a revolt against doom and gloom of the war torn 40s. Retro kind of interior design involves taking some amount of the last few decades into the present so as to create a new kind of interior design which is modern and fun. Since there is an infinite amount of material to select from, what you opt to incorporate will be highly unique, based on how you view the past

How to begin

The first step is to go through magazines and search on the Internet, visit show rooms and exhibitions for the colour plans, furniture, layouts etc. that you like. Question yourself what artefacts have been used, how the furniture is displayed, the material used in it, consider the lighting and the effect it gives, observe the colour schemes, the decorative touches and the wall and floor coverings. Using these you can actually mix and match elements that you like to create a retro style according to your own identity with the past.

Obtaining the look

After the war new materials produced caused a drastic change in styles in the 50s and 60s, e.g., Formica, plastic, fibreglass and plywood. The people were in jubilant mood and the future looked rosy, that was reflected in the colour schemes. E.g.

* Turquoise

* Jade

* Mint green

* Pink

* Sunshine yellow

* Cherry red

* Blue

* Black and White

Highly polished chrome was widely used for furniture or for ornamental pieces. The furniture was generally abstract style with strange and wonderful shapes. They can be low lying circular or oval or kidney shaped coffee tables, or anything in a wavy boomerang shape. Teak and Pine were mostly used. Blow up furniture came along with disposable materials like cardboard so you could change the furniture whenever you wanted; it allowed you to change the look of your home quite frequently.

GPlan furniture became the rage and revolutionized home interiors For the first time, you could get a matched look for your home over a period of time and mix and match pieces to design your individual style. It was like black and white chequered linoleum set against chrome furniture and black vinyl coverings or the damp look wall paper and vivid floral patterns or the bright and bold red and black complementary to colour schemes.

Geometric patterns and shapes became very popular and since the space age was a rage during the 50s and 60s, furniture items that represented space was in vogue. E.g., rockets, the planets, satellites, and space ships were chic and atomic wall clocks found a place in the most fashionable of homes.

Visit antique shops or search on eBay to buy vintage ornaments and items so as to get the full vintage Retro look. There are no strict rules about the things that should or shouldn't be included making the Retro style very different. Don't hesitate to experiment with your design ideas, provided it looks good to you and feels correct.

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