Strange as it may seem, there are people who love to decorate their homes in the style of past centuries. And we're not talking about vintage style, or anything that smacks of class or elegance, there are doubts about the buildings in the '50s, '60s, '70s, and also talk these days about 80 years older. Some call it retro, some call it kitsch. Those who do not like retro, if you refuse and those who call it kitsch does not care much what you call call call, because they are happy in theirElvis theme room first period of their sanctuaries Graceland.
According to Wikipedia, the back is a "culturally outdated or aged style, trend, fad or fashion, the general post-modern past and from that moment, functionally or superficially the norm has become new." This is a very tedious way of saying that people on the last hook and releasing dangerous obsession with plaid. Of course, those who are in their retro prefer to think positive and we have againturn to Wikipedia, which obliges us with a reference to the "eccentric or interesting products that are no longer available." There is also a term for an intense love of retro objects: retrophilia.
For the ambitious, there is a difference between kitsch and retro kitsch with the lower of the two styles. Wikipedia weighs with a brief history of the word, of German origin and is used for art or bad taste for blatantly borrowed from reality. Kitsch refersThings that are aesthetically satisfying and colorful. Kitsch does things subjectively as cool (Elvis, Star Wars, garden gnomes, oriental influences) could be interpreted as bad press, and which are barely recognizable.
Some examples
When you think of retro furniture, you think of colors, textures and bold shapes. The most obvious example, and one that uses almost every reference to retro-examples is that avocado green kitchen. Have you seen movies and TVand maybe even some old family photos. The walls are green, black and white checkered linoleum floor is a wall phone is turquoise and the curtains are brown (which may or may not be an orange carpet on the floor).
The above example goes back to the '50s and '60s. 70 Retro is a little 'adventure, the colors are brighter and seems almost deliberately to struggle to make lava lamps and beaded curtains separate rooms look rather than a door.
Coral Nafie wrote on the backin a way that makes it seem almost reasonable. He says it should be a fun retro, vibrant feel to it, a sense of elegance and should have definitely funky. It does so without shame, which is busy and loud and retro furnishings should vies large and bulky, but as the more subtle approach with a piece of furniture as a focal point in a room, all the retro furniture in the room for your attention . Avocados are green above, like a checkerboard, batik fabrics and shagCarpet.
Those who want to venture into retro should remember one important word of caution: too much like retro kitsch.
This brings us rather neatly to some examples of kitsch decor, and we really spoiled for choice. Think pink flamingos on the lawn in ceramic, porcelain dogs completed the living room, three ducks flying through the wall of the corridor, frog-shaped teapots, alligators, false (the only moderately better than a real stuffed), heads animals on the wall andRaggedy Anne dolls filled rooms. To embody very kitsch, but you need to get your hands on a poster of Elvis Yoda. Nothing screams aesthetically deficient as Yoda says in a suit of Elvis.
So, on a scale of 1-10, or style scores. But if you really choose one or the other, choosing retro, you have more fun and less likely to be alienated from all your loved ones.
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