Are you living in the past? Have you ever considered adding retro decor to your home? Perhaps you are a person who loves to bring home flea market finds, vintage items, and antiques.

Retro decorating is the perfect way to bring the flavors, colors, and styles of past years into your home, while blending several decades of style together to create a timeless and fun look in every room of your home.

Retro home decorating is all about making something from the past look right at home in your "modern" house.

A retro style home can be created using chrome furniture, appliances, architectural details, and lots of wonderful collections (big or small) showcased throughout the home.

What does retro mean exactly? Some people relate retro, cottage style décor or vintage style décor together, but will jazz up the look with bright, bold, and sometimes funky furniture pieces or collections. Think antiques; think vintage, think flea market shopping and you're on the right path to decorating your home retro style!

Here are some quick decorating ideas to bring the trends of past decades, whether it's the 40's 50's, or 60's, into your home.

• Frame record album covers or the actual LP's and create a collection on a large wall
• Frame movie posters for the media room
• Use the covers from old magazines as wall art
• Remember chenille? Cover your bed or child's bed with a fantastic chenille bedspread in white and then use lots of color in the throw pillows
• Red is a popular color for retro decorating - use it on chair covers, to paint furniture, or in accessories
• Appliances can be purchased to mimic old time versions
• Brand new LP players are being manufactured now to look like they're from the past, but also contain a CD player, MP3 player, and even the capability of recording your LP music to CD. These pieces look great in the living area, den, or bedroom.
• Create geometric patterns on the floor with black, white, or red square tiles
• Bring used 1950's or 1960's furniture back to life with vintage, reproduction, or bark cloth fabrics
• Game boards look great on the wall as art. Do you have orphaned game pieces? Display them in a shadow box painted a red or black.
• Metal furniture can be made to look retro with a healthy coat of paint in a bright color – purple, red, yellow, turquoise, or even green
• Glass blocks can be used to create an architectural feature such as a half wall or as the base of a kitchen island or support for a coffee table
• Display collections of vintage perfume bottles, glass bottles, garden utensils, buttons, painted serving trays, salt and pepper shakers, water pitchers, amd watering cans
• Throw rugs in geometric prints and patterns are a great way to highlight hardwood floors in a retro style home. Shag throws are great too!
• Don't forget the lava lamp!

Retro decorating draws you in and makes you want to stay awhile just to see everything that is in the room.

Fabrics used in any space lend either bold colors or vintage pastels to throw pillows, furniture, chair covers, window fashions, or table toppers. If you bring an older item back to life, you have a retro decor style piece. However, feel free to display your vintage finds in just the condition you found them for an authentic and truly vintage look.

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