After many
years of being considered as “old-fashioned”, the retro style came into life
once again. Nowadays, there are many shops that sell furniture and objects that
are from the 50s, 60s and 70s and that they call everyone’s attention.
For those
who would like to decorate their apartments with a “retro style” and they don’t
know where to begin, we will now mention some tips for them to have in mind
when they go in the search for retro objects and furniture around the city.
For
starters, since the retro style covers many decades, there are a lot of options
when it comes to decorating a room of an apartment in "retro mood".
Still, it is a matter of joining the pieces and choosing what retro objects
should you incorporate in your apartment so that it is not a random mixture of
many things that don’t match.
An
apartment decorated with a "retro style" can mean buying a couch from
the 50s, 60s or 70s, or a lamp, or some decoration piece (even cushions), or it
could also mean mixing the colors that tended to be used during those decades
that could give your apartment a retro style. When talking about colors, the
options are also wide, since according to the decade the colors that where in
vogue at the time then changed. Retro style has a wide variation of colors
(according to the decade), so there are plenty of options. For example, during
the 50s, the trendy colors where soft and pastels (in green, yellow and blue)
mixed with red, black and white. Still, in the 70s the trendy colors where
stronger like orange and (flashy) green.
The idea of
decorating an apartment with a retro style probably should be based on getting
some objects you like and try to match them with those you already have in your
apartment. As every fashion, the retro style will pass and it is important you
mix that style with others that you can adapt according to the times, and your
likes. The same thing happens with those objects and pieces of furniture that
are too flashy; we may get tired of them after some time. Retro style tends to
be peculiar in some aspects, (for example, furniture is usually too
geometrical), and you may find it boring after a while. So, it is important
that when decorating your apartment with a retro style you choose elements that
you like, but that you can take (or put away) easily, in case you want to
change them.
The retro
style is the new “in” and there are many shops and places where you can get the
material to decorate your apartment in retro style. It is a matter of finding
those things you like and see how you can mix it with your current decoration
items… If you start to decorate your apartment from scratch, it should be
easier to adapt.
