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A 1970's Decor Kitchen
Decorating your kitchen with a
70's theme is getting more popular every day.
Here are a few things you can do to get the look in your kitchen.
1970's
Colors, Themes and Collectibles
Flower Power
Flowers in yellow, orange, red and other bright colors. Put them
everywhere; magnets on your fridge, on your kitchen clocks, towels or
curtains.
Look for collectible daisy print glasses and coffee cups, just like
Eric Foreman.
Get a quick dash of color with towels or curtains.
Mushrooms, Owls and Forest Friends
These were a popular part of the 'natural kitchen' themes. Colors
for
this theme would be avocado or moss green, reddish browns (rust),
orange and mustard
yellow.
Look for wall hangings, salt and pepper shakers and kitchen canisters.
Add a hanging plant like pathos or spider plants. They help clean
the air and are fairly easy to grow. Put them in your macrame
plant hangers!
70's Lite
The 'natural' trend is
also
responsible for much maligned dark wood paneling cabinets.
Hanging plants added to the dank
cave feel in smaller kitchens.
If you are giving your kitchen a 1970's remodel, I would pass on the
dark wood. Instead, try painting your cabinets in harvest yellow
or lime green (or both). Or perhaps just keep them white. If you
change your mind about your kitchen color scheme white goes with
everything.
Country Kitchens
Country kitchen themes are always popular. In the 70's they took
the form of 'old-fashioned', country kitchens. Collectibles
included old milk jugs (filed with straw flowers you grew
yourself), vintage tins and washboards.
There were lots of new designs made to look like 1890's advertising
art. Grains and dried beans decorated the walls. Colors
were mainly earth tones with a little bit of hippie Emporium thrown in.
Handmade ceramics in simple forms and natural colors were very
poplar. You had to actually go to a craft fair (or a
Renaissance Faire) to find these things. Now you can go online
and find the same thing on an artist's home page.
Handmade Especially Macrame
Hand made items were popular and very practical in those hard economic
times.
An enormously popular craft was macrame. Every mom seemed to be
making macrame plant holders, pot holders, covers or
holders. Many were embellished with seashells or wood beads or
organic looking ceramic beads. Look for them in thrift shops.
Other 1970's Kitchen Colors to Use
Chrome and silver were also popular. Add a stick-on mirror square
to
your wall. Mirrors add light and can make a small space feel
bigger.
Crazy geometric patterns and stripes
round out the palette.
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