Retro Kitchen Design Ideas for Unique Home Appliances

October 19, 2009 Category: Kitchen Design  


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Retro kitchen design are the latest rage in homes remodelling antique styles, prominent from 1920s to 1960s. The kitchen retro style uses bold colors, shiny chrome, sunny yellow, red cabinets, jadeite green, along with checkerboard floors and vivid patterns. You can find this fascination with the 50s and 60s everywhere. This period is also known as mid-century. Some reasons for this trend are that people are rejecting the throwaway mentality. They like for things to have a longer shelf life with more endurance and permanence. They want to go back to a time when appliances were built to be serviced and repaired, not immediately replaced. They want appliances to be built to last.
Many kitchen design professionals consider the original mid-century designs to be very good designs, and now a whole new age group is just becoming familiar with them. Chrome and vinyl dinette sets can fit in perfectly with this 50s nostalgic look, and manufacturers today make these 50s retro kitchen tables in a bistro, booth or regular dinette style.
Here are some of the trends retro kitchens :

  • retro kitchen cabinets painted with glass knobs
  • vintage linens combined with new appliances
  • vintage kitchen tables with the vinyl covered chairs

So you can add style with retro kitchen cabinets creating a warm and inviting atmosphere in your kitchen.
Antique Home Styles and Retro Renovation design by Pam Kueber .



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