1950's Theme For Your Kitchen

Are you planning on decorating your kitchen with a retro look? Retro designs are a unique way to incorporate nostalgia into the 21st century kitchen and home.

The 1950s is a decade that is often viewed as conservative, prosperous and optimistic. It also revolutionized entertainment such as the introduction of television into family living rooms, movies targeting teenagers and the introduction to new music genres as well as a boom to the recording industry. In the homes of the decade, open plans were introduced while fitted kitchens were a housewife's domain complete with brand new appliances. Pastel colors such as turquoise, aqua, pink and yellow were popular as well as space age, atomic era designs and materials. Plastics were featured and Formica and chrome were the standard materials for tables and chairs. Formica counter tops also matched the tables and chairs and proved to be easy to clean. Vinyl was used for tablecloths as well as chair and furniture covers. Bark cloth was used and took on boomerang and abstract shapes. Home bars, barbecue, picnic and party accessories also took stage as well as leisure promoting kitchenware. Melmac and Melamine dishes, Lustro-ware and Tupperware storage accessories were very popular and added more convenience to the home. For many people, the 1950s kitchen design brings back warm memories of the kitchens of their childhood homes or perhaps their grandmothers' kitchens.

Do you want to give your kitchen a 1950s look? Looks inspired by the decade are now reproduced and available to you and they include:

Fabric by the yard for your kitchen curtains that even include bark cloth

Kitchen tables and chair sets complete with chrome legs, seats covered in vinyl in many colors as well as Formica counter tops done in 1950s style.

Stoves and refrigerators that are reproduced in their original appearance in many original colors but with the technology of the 21st century are available.

Retro style small appliances such as toasters and soda drink mixers

Retro enamelware such as canisters, breadboxes and soap dishes

For the 1950s diner feel to your newly designed kitchen, try:

Replica radios, jukeboxes, pay phones and turntables

Reproduced double bubble clocks, Coke machines and metal 6-pack picnic coolers

Tin diner and car hop signs

Second hand stores are also good places to find original furniture that can be revitalized into your retro room. For some, a kitchen with a '50s design will bring back the warm and inviting feelings of the past and of days spent in their mother's or grandmother's kitchens. For others, a retro look to the room will provide a unique look that is not often found in today's kitchens. When it comes to giving your kitchen a nostalgic look, the important thing is to be creative and have fun with it.