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Retro Kitchens Are Fun And Funky

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Retro kitchens bring a fun and funky decorating themes from the past into your home and makes you want to sit and stay awhile.

Color schemes vary from bright and bold primary colors to softer colors that are akin to pastels, but more like candy colors you’d see in an old-fashioned candy shop.

Retro style kitchens bring together several different styles and blends them together to make a room both a “blast from the past” and modern at the same time. Here are some fantastic ways to bring retro decorating into your kitchen.

Retro Style Kitchen Ideas

Replace your dining room table with a chrome or Formica table set. Paint the top a brick red, bold green, or even yellow.

Fruit motifs are very popular with a retro style kitchen theme. Bring in the fruit motif with table linens, window fashions, towels, and placemats. Cherries and apples are most popular in a retro theme.

Glassware makes a retro style kitchen come alive! Bring in all sorts of colors and styles in forms of bottles, vases, bowls, glasses, salt and pepper shakers, and platters.

Add chrome edges to your kitchen countertops

White enamel hand washing bowls, pitchers, milk bottles, and vases look great on the counter, above the kitchen cabinets, or used for alternative uses (fruit bowls or to hold flowers) retro kitchen sign

Spice tin sets with vintage motifs can be simply a decorating item or serve as storage

Decoupage photos or images from old magazines onto a canister set to make your own retro style kitchen canisters

Vintage tin signs serve as decorations, wall hangings, or memo boards (use magnets)

Display die-cast trucks, cars, or other antique toys behind glass doors, on shelves, or on top of kitchen cabinets. If they’re heavy enough, they could serve as bookends for your cookbook collection.

Replace or refurbish kitchen cabinets with simple molding, new hardware, or new laminate
retro kitchen chair

Incorporate vinyl covered swivel stools at the breakfast bar and vinyl covered chairs at the dining table

Cover the floor with large red, white, and black squares

Switch out your existing appliances for modern reproductions of retro style appliances like your toaster, mixer, or blender. Add retro style decorating and storage options such as breadboxes too.

Chrome spray paint can turn any kitchen cabinet hardware into a “chrome” accent

Fabric calendar panels are great as wall hangings, placemats, or table runners

A large atomic clock adds color and fun to any retro style kitchen retro kitchen

Popular colors associated with a retro kitchens include turquoise, red, yellow, green, fire engine red, yellow, black and white. Softer retro colors are pink, blue, cream, and green.

Turn an unused area of your kitchen into a soda shop corner

Add brightly colored tiles as a backsplash for the kitchen or behind the stove

Stainless steel appliances are completely retro!
vintage bowls

Don’t forget the wonderful step stools with the fold down steps – great for your children to reach the counter or for you to reach upper cabinet shelves

Retro kitchens are truly a mix of styles from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s, so bring in what you enjoy and your kitchen space will quickly take on a personality all it’s own.

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