Vintage-styled wallpaper and color choices convey the 1950's atmosphere.
Decorating your bathroom in a "retro" style is an easy way to liven up what is often an under-decorated, strictly utilitarian room. A retro bathroom makeover does not necessarily require drastic changes. Whether you want a bathroom so retro that people who enter it will feel like they just stepped out of a time machine or you simply want to glam up the room where you get ready for your day, you can give your bathroom a retro twist.
Retro Palette Accessories
Outfit your bathroom with accessories that reflect a recognizable retro color scheme, such as the orange, faded sunflower yellow and creamy white combination favored in the 1970s. Frame vintage advertisements and magazine covers in that color scheme, and hang them on the walls. If you have an all-white or neutral bathroom, adding retro-colored accessories like hand towels, bathmats, bath towels, curtains, mirrors and the like is a quick and easy way to add retro style without major cost or renovations.
Retro Shower Curtain
Grace your bathtub or shower with a vintage shower curtain courtesy of your favorite retro-style era. Depending upon how it was stored, it may or may not hold up well, so you may need to supplement it with a clear plastic shower curtain liner. If the vintage shower curtain seems too fragile for everyday use, cut it into pieces, framing them, and creating a one-of-a-kind arrangement on the wall.
Black and White Tile
Jazz up your bathroom floor or tub area with black and white tile in a checkerboard pattern to evoke a 1950s diner. Black and white is a staple of retro decor in many forms. If you'd rather not retile the bathroom, a checkerboard wallpaper border or a checkerboard-patterned frame for the bathroom mirror is a lower-cost and less labor-intensive alternative.
Cherry Accents
Sprinkle the bathroom with cherries -- both literal depictions of cherries and the glossy, distinctive red color of a maraschino cherry. For example, you could make kicky new curtains from white fabric printed with tiny cherries, and paint the frame of the main bathroom mirror with several coats of red paint topped off with a thick layer of lacquer for shine.
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