Like they say, retro fashion is the best fashion, that’s why today we are going to take you back to the nineties, where you can feel nostalgic and appreciate the simple pleasures of the past.
Retro being what it is has always been a reference to books, movies, clothes and especially music! But today, we’re going full retro in your own kitchen, a place where the best dishes are made, where you can smell the scent of nostalgia.
Our article today is mainly about the best tricks you can use in order to redecorate your kitchen, resulting in a retro themed one. The following paragraphs of this article will revolve around colors, decorations, furniture and a lot more.
A retro kitchen is very distinguishable by two things, used colors and original equipment. The used colors must be cozy, clear and thus, bright!
All the variety of colors offer us the look we are going for, but they must be matched with other furniture and objects, for us to have a successful retro themed kitchen.
Also, equipment used in this style of kitchens must be original, not in a way that they must be rare and all, not at all, it’s essentially about having normal, seemingly useless or old furniture that belongs nowhere but in your retro themed kitchen.
To sum up, a retro themed kitchen is all about getting a full use of our current furniture instead of upgrading to newer furniture, while a lot of people may prefer having modern and futuristic kitchens in their homes, we prefer to settle for a functional kitchen with no smart fridge in it.
What a retro kitchen is about
Adequate colors for your retro themed kitchen
There is a large palette of colors that can be used in a retro themed kitchen; white, beige, lavender, mint, peach, canary yellow, blue and dusty pink.
If you are struggling to choose the ‘right’ color for your kitchen, maybe you can try to follow the colors used in a specific era, a certain trend, because even though all these mentioned colors above do apply to a vintage kitchen, they were trendy at different times, starting backwards from the nineties!
If you are more adventurous, you can think about combining two colors; blue and yellow or green and pink, or any other combination that seems to please you. Doing an online search can be very helpful, but also if it seems that you can’t fully imagine your kitchen, maybe the alternative is a 3D interior rendering that will make it more visual to you, making your choice easier to determine.
Easy Tricks to decorate your retro themed kitchen
White walls are an essential piece of decoration in a retro themed kitchen, with this neutral color on the wall, it’s very easy to let the palette colors used in the storage cabinets speak for themselves, expressing through their warm and bright tones.
Like all old places have a soul, your own retro kitchen must feel like that, and wood is the right material to do it, it gives a rustic touch to your vintage kitchen; like they say: Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials, that’s why it has been used since more than ten thousand years ago!
We do not know the exact reason, but everyone seems to love wood, maybe it’s because wood can overload our senses, filling us with its smell and the visual schemes that shape it naturally.
Try to find old, vintage materials to authentically decorate your retro themed kitchen, materials such as cement tiles for your floor, an old fridge from the nineties maybe, wallpapers with a grandma’s kitchen look, glass tiles, food processors, old ovens, coffee machines, stoves and electric kettles… anything that fits in such a theme is welcome!
Your dish collections are very important, we can’t have a nineties kitchen with nowadays plates and dish collections, it’s very easy to find such original and authentic collections in antique stores for a very good price. They are usually decorated with paint, simple drawings that will make your everyday lunch and dinner feel like a nostalgic trip to the nineties.
Glass windows are important, too! nowadays windows are mostly transparent, simple, which was not the case in the old days! In vintage kitchens, even such details were not left alone, windows’ glass were usually decorated, with schemes, paint and of course; curtains! curtains with simple drawings on them, such as a fruit or a bicolor geometrical design, whatever the design, it only must fit into your own decoration.
Hanging chandeliers is the answer when it comes to the lighting of your retro themed kitchen! do not think about it too much, just do it! That’s how they’ve been illuminating kitchens for a while in the nineties.
A breadbox is something rare to see these days in a modern kitchen, but it is one of the main keys to the success of a retro themed kitchen, just like grandmas used to do!
Artworks are crucial too, since vintage kitchens were never deprived of art decorations, they all have small but unique artifacts!
Pay attention to drapes, door, table’s material and the small details that can make your vintage kitchen look unauthentic.
In the end, all we can say is that a retro themed kitchen can only be made out of real vintage furniture, if you truly believe in the elegance and the beauty of such a decoration, you can easily detect and spot out all of the accessories you might need. It’s totally worth it if you are going for this style of decoration, and even if finding the right furniture and accessories seems tiring, the final decoration in your kitchen and the nostalgia you are going to feel every time you go in your cookery, along with the smells that overload your senses, are totally enjoyable and will make you forget all the troubles you went through in order to acquire these unique furnitures.