Creating a Retro Style for Your Home

Choosing to design the interior of your home in a retro style can be both eye-catching and interesting. It will give you the chance to really make a statement within your home and perhaps to make the most in the modern day of an era from the past that you really admire and enjoy. But where do you start when considering going down this route in home decoration?
Choose Your Era
It is best to be specific about the period in time you wish to echo or emulate – otherwise you could end with a messy mish-mash of styles and bits and pieces. However, you can be broad in your selection. For example, you could restrict yourself to the 1960s and 1970s – or to the 1940s and 1950s. There will, of course, be some over-lap when one decade begins and another ends.Do your research and choose an era where the colours, styles, fabrics and patterns interest and appeal to you. Watch films from or set in the era, read books and carry out research on the internet. Make sure you have a good feel for the time before you get started.
Decorate Your Walls
Cover your walls in the style best suited to the era. Find out whether paint or wall paper was used at the time and look carefully at the colours that might have been used on the walls. If you wish to use a wall paper then there are plenty of reproduction prints out there. Or perhaps you could source a paper that has a print that is retro in style i.e. it is in a design that might well have been used back in those days.If you decide to paint your walls then you will be spoilt for choice. Whether you want a vibrant, psychedelic 60s yellow or a Georgian duck egg blue, you will find plenty to choose from. Many manufacturers have their own heritage ranges, where they offer you a selection of paints from the past. Otherwise, it’s easy enough these days to go into a large DIY store to ask them to mix a colour to your specific requirements. Some will be able to scan in a magazine page – or even an object – to help you achieve just the right shade.