To create a retro style in the nursery, we suggest making vintage toys and furnishings with your own hands. For the kitchen, you can create lamps from old dishes, update a lamp, a floor lamp.
Retro style in the interior will make the living space cozy, remember the old days. By this principle, you will decorate the nursery, dining room, living room, bedroom. And if you have a retro style in the country, then you can bring unnecessary things here and decorate not only the interior, but also the street exterior.
Retro style in the interior of the nursery
Such a bright nursery will add coziness and mood. If this room is in the country, in the village, then look, maybe there is an old bedside table lying in the attic? It can be repaired, then sanded, primed and painted with a layer of white paint. The same goes for the bed. And you can make such a romantic crate over the door from thin slats, also painted white.
The room is done in gentle colors. The bed linen is green and pink. If you have a hula-hoop hoop, then make a house for a child from it, which, if desired, turns into a soft closet.
- To do this, you need to take a hoop, fix pieces of strong wire on it. Fix in such a way that, together with the hoop, they form a cone. Measure this blank, cut out a cover from the pink fabric to its size.
- At the top, leave a hole not sewn up to thread a metal chain here, fix it, and at the other end of the chain there will be a hook that is attached to the ceiling. Now take a rectangle of the same fabric, the length of which is two or three times the diameter of the hoop.
- Gather it up, sew it to the bottom of the resulting cone. You can cut windows and treat them with ribbons or cloth of the same color.
It remains to paint the walls, the ceiling, you will draw white clouds here, a few twigs of greenery.
Here is such a romantic retro-style nursery.
If the child is very small, then he needs a bed with sides. For this purpose, you can use a stove bench, which also has a long history. You sand it, paint it. All that remains is to sew the bumpers for the baby bed, the mattress topper for the mattress and bed linen. You can close the bottom with a fabric of a suitable color. From the same, you will make covers for armchairs, for a changing or coffee table. It remains to make decorative pillows, hang soft panels near the crib.
Look at other pictures that will tell you how to decorate a nursery in a retro style. If you have an antique metal bed, paint it and cover it with an eco-friendly varnish as well. If there is no such, you can buy a new or used one for an ad inexpensively. It will also remain to make a cover on the table, on the chairs, to paint the wall in the children's room in advance.
Ivory looks amazing for a child's bedroom. You can buy furniture for a nursery of this color or decorate an existing one. There are few pieces of furniture here, but they are functional. A comfortable bed is located in the center of the room, so parents can come here from all sides. There is a changing table nearby and in the immediate vicinity there is a wardrobe where you can put baby things and immediately get them out if necessary.
If you have items from the seventies and eighties, then use them to decorate your nursery in a retro style. If not, then try to make comfortable shelves with your own hands. For such, you can use drawers from an unnecessary cabinet. You can paint them if you wish. Then you need to attach these boxes obliquely to the previously created base.
Take chipboard, 4 pieces are enough. Connect them horizontally using small pieces of chipboard. Make some shelves open and others closed. Regular processed plywood with a side-coated notch makes an excellent latch.
Previously, metal beds were commonly used. If you have one in your storerooms, it will be enough to paint it to give it a charming look. Use blue paint for the boy, pink for the girl. Place a bedside table, a birdcage, an alarm clock, and other things that remind you of a long time ago.
Then there were no special excesses in the situation. Use this idea when decorating your nursery in a retro style. You can buy a bedside table that resembles pieces of furniture of that time, you put it near the bed. For the girl, use red bedding, for the boy blue.
Decorative pillows will add coziness to this room, on which it is quite possible to relax during the day.
To make one, cut out two stars of the same size from the fabric. Sew this decorative cover and put the filler inside. If you wish, create a pillow case out of light natural fabric and embroider words of love here with bright thread.
Since this is a nursery, toys will be appropriate here. We also offer to make them in a retro style. Now you will see that they are not easy to master.
How to make retro-style wooden toys for interior decor?
If you have pieces of plywood, then redraw the patterns of such a horse here. For her, you will need the figurine of this animal itself, then two swinging runners and connecting elements. You will make grooves in these blanks, glue the elements together using wood glue. Then it remains to paint such a horse and tie it with a ribbon if desired.
It is also easy to make a sled. To do this, cut out the parts of the runners, then connect them with crossbars, and nail the planks on top. Then the children will know which sledges their great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers rode on.
Make a boat for the boy. First, create a base from wood, then screw two more blanks of different sizes on top. The child will roll his little toys here, and another piece will be added to the retro-style room.
Show the kid what old cameras were, to do this, create parts of this object out of wood, then screw them with self-tapping screws and you can additionally fix them with glue. Make bows out of wire, screw them on both sides to tie a ribbon here. Then the child can hang the camera on his shoulder.
You can use off-the-shelf threaded metal parts to screw them into the camera here.
You can also make toys from regular thin logs and twigs.
And to make a horse, take:
- branches of different thicknesses;
- joiner's glue;
- instruments;
- twine.
First, saw off a fragment from a thick branch so that it becomes the body of a horse. Then make 4 notches at the bottom. Saw off the thinner branches for the legs, make notches at the top to the size of the holes you just created. But then these legs will have a kind of hanger, so that the thicker part of the top of the legs touches the body of the horse and fits better. Connect the parts with wood glue.
Fix the wooden wheels to the screws so that you can roll this horse. Make a hole in the upper part of the body, insert the created neck here, on which the head of the desired shape is previously fixed. It remains to glue the tail on the back, and the retro toy is ready.
If you make such items, then the child will know how the first cars looked before.
Take the trunk of a thin tree, cut a fragment of the desired size from it and make it flatter from the sides. Determine where the wheels will be. Attach them with bolts. There will be a pipe in front of the hood. After all, cars used to be heated with wood so that they could drive. But you can create a more modern racing model.
With the help of carpentry tools, you need to give the cut of a tree the shape of a racing car. Then use a miter saw or a round drill bit to make a hole as in the photo. Insert 6 branch fragments here, and one more in the center. Attach a metal pin to each pair of wheels to make them rotate.
The ancient passage is also easy to make with your own hands. It is necessary to sharpen the log on one side, make notches on top and insert the blank for the sail here. You will sew it from fabric and put it on. Then there will be another item for creating a retro style in the children's room.
Make a spinning model for your baby. Now on sale there are various plastic animals. The child pulls them, the wheels turn. And you can create an ecological model out of wood. To do this, take a log, stitch it from above and below. Place the wooden wheels on the pin so that they rotate well, fix the stick at the back. Add eyes and nose to the dog. And make the ears from rope or yarn. They fit into the hole in the upper part of the figure.
Earlier, children played this way. The base of a wooden horse was made from a long stick. From above, you need to insert fluffy threads into the hole, which will become the mane of this animal.
When deciding how to get a retro look, place accessories from the past here. See how you can update them.
Designer lamps in retro style for kitchen decor
When you're thinking about what your retro kitchen might look like, pick up kitchen utensils that you no longer use. They can be used to make wonderful lamps.
If you have an old ladle, turn it into an original lamp. Use a drill to make a hole in this accessory.
In this case, orange plates were taken to attach this ladle to the ceiling. But you can take a plate of any color. Drill three holes in the center of this container. A wire will go through the central one, using two small ones, attach the plate to the ceiling.
Fix the cartridge on the working part of the ladle, the wire of this electrical device rises upward, passes through the hole in the plate. It remains to screw in the light bulb, after which the retro-style lamp is ready.
You can also make a table lamp from an old electrical appliance. Light sources will add coziness to the house.
Over time, the lampshade becomes unusable. Using simple tools, you will create a new lampshade.
To make such a lampshade, take:
- an old desk lamp;
- linen twine;
- beads;
- scissors;
- brushes;
- sandpaper;
- PVA glue.
Remove unnecessary fabric from the old lampshade. In this case, PVA glue was applied to a glass bulb, but you can cover the lamp leg with this compound if it is of this shape.
Now start winding the string, placing the turns close together. After that, apply PVA glue on top to further secure the string. Lubricate the metal parts of the lampshade with the same adhesive and start wrapping them with rope as well. Make horizontal, vertical stripes here, skip the rope diagonally, and how else, your imagination will tell you. Wind the string over and over.
Then take this rope, make a circle out of it, and then glue these decorative elements from the outside to the base of the lampshade.
Take the beads and glue them in the center of the rope circles. You can also use artificial stones for this.
This is such a beautiful table lamp. You will have a cozy retro style in your interior when you install these lighting fixtures here. To create them, you can use a wide variety of kitchen utensils, for example, a pair of tea. Here you need to carefully make holes in the cup and saucer in the middle with a drill on the glass in order to pass the wire from the cartridge here. Then fix it, put it on the glue and screw on the light bulb.
Another lamp can be made from unnecessary knives, forks and spoons. You will glue them to a metal vase and fix the light bulb here.
If you have a teapot or metal coffee pot, you can make openwork cutouts here, put a candle or a light bulb inside to create another lighting fixture.
And if you cut the cup and saucer in half, then you get two wall sconces. They will need to be glued into place to make such spectacular products.
You can decorate the leg of the floor lamp with unnecessary cups, saucers, and a coffee pot was also attached here. Now these cutlery will always be in sight. They will perfectly decorate the kitchen in a retro style. And you will decide that you have an incomplete set from the service.
Glue a couple of lids onto a wooden panel, which can be a cutting board. Then you will always have scissors, writing instruments at hand, and you will hang a towel on the handle of the lid. This is another option for how to decorate the kitchen.
And an unnecessary colander will turn into an amazing chandelier. If it is white, leave it that way, and if not, you can pre-paint it.
If you have accumulated several wine corks, select cores from each, leaving the bottom. Sprinkle earth here and plant small succulents. Then fix the plugs to the wall. You can glue them or attach them with magnets.
Place an original fruit bowl in your kitchen in a retro style. To make one, take a bowl of a suitable shape, glue spoons and forks here, as well as knives. Then, when the paint is dry, you remove the bowl, and you will be left with such a metal vase.
Video ideas can also help you create a retro style interior. The following photo collection will give you various ideas.
And what a vintage-style kitchen might look like is shown in the second video.
