How to Design Retro Furniture

The retro style depicts the wonderful styles and colors of the past. Designing your furniture the retro way will add a vibrant atmosphere to your house and at the same type will give you the comfort of the modern furniture as well. Fusions result in extremely unique looking furniture. Turning your regular furniture into retro style is not expensive at all. All it needs is creativity on your behalf. Let’s see how to do it.

Things Required:

Colors and paints
Chrome and brass accessories.
A creative mind
Some nice glue
Nice pieces of wood
Beautiful brass screws

Steps:

There is no hard and fast rule on how to convert your modern furniture into retro style. It all depends on how crazy you can get.

You can limit your self to just vibrant cushions, wall hangings and rugs, or actually grab the paint box and start to repaint the furniture yourself.

Repainting the entire furniture may be a bit costly. However, if you can’t afford to spend money, it is always good to search your stores and cabinets in detail and find all the vibrant clothing you can. These can be turned into sofa backs, tables covers and mats etc.
Let your creativity flow.

Another interesting way to design retro furniture is to check all the accessories available and select the era you want to depict according to the things available. This can help you a lot on cutting cost.

Take out all your old silver and brass decoration pieces and decorate them with some colorful additions.

Try simple combinations

While trying to achieve the retro style try to use simple combinations. If you have a white sofa, jazz it up with colorful cushions and a vibrant sofa back. This look can easily be reverted back when you need the sophisticated look.

Interesting accessories which can be screwed or glued onto your furniture to give it a retro look can also be found online at bargain prices.

Log onto the internet and search for old retro furniture styles. You can get lots of ideas on what addition to your furniture can turn it into a vibrant piece of retro furniture.


Tips:

Instead of going completely retro, try to make a blend of retro and modern styles. This is will add a comfortable brightness to your house.
Your silver and brass accessories will need some cleaning and polishing before they can be displayed again. Make a mixture of light detergent, vinegar and washing soda. Scrub the accessories with this mixture and then wash off with warm water. They will come out as brand new.

Warnings:

Never over accessorize or make your furniture too vibrant in order to get the retro feel. You may tend to get bored or tired of the extreme liveliness the colors bring in. There may be a craving to back to the simple modern style. Reverting back may be difficult in such a case.
Try not to damage your furniture by drilling too many holes in order to accessorize it. Use good quality glue instead. Use the drill only if it is not possible to use the glue.
Don’t over accessorize if you have small kids at home. Go for the simple retro look in such a case.