How to furnish a living room in vintage style with a modern touch

How to decorate a living room in vintage style, while giving a touch of modernity with the inclusion of contemporary elements? In recent years, vintage style furniture is very fashionable and is a very popular trend not only in our country.

Many major interior design brands, given the great commercial success of vintage furniture style, have decided to create real collections inspired by the vintage style of the 50s, 60s and 70s.

In this article we will provide you with important tips and suggestions to furnish your spaces in vintage style: we will help you to choose vintage living room furniture that can enhance and give great personality to your environments.

Modern vintage living room: everything you need to know

In order to create the perfect vintage living room with a modern touch, the secret to achieving an attractive result is to learn how to harmoniously mix elements and furnishings from different eras. In this regard, our advice is to include in a living room characterized by a modern base, some vintage elements selected with care, without exceeding too much.

Regarding the choice of a vintage living room furniture, we would like to point out that the retro-inspired colors are those related to earth tones, to be combined with more modern tones, one of all white, and even gray and gold.

Furnishing a living room in vintage style, while maintaining a contemporary imprinting, means paying great attention to detail and the choice of all those elements that by their nature are able to define the character of your environments.

Vintage style furniture 50s

Some lovers of vintage style have a particular predilection for the 50's: the latter are characterized by truly iconic shapes and colors, resulting in furniture elements with great character and personality.

In order to create a vintage 50's living room you will have to understand the soul of the design that characterizes this decade: the furniture of the 50's are in fact characterized by a great sense of elegance, sophistication and innovation, which comes from the need of that era to look to the future.

To design your 50's vintage living room you will first of all have to organize your spaces in the best way, choosing the most suitable sofa and armchairs to integrate in your environments. To configure a 50's vintage style you will have to prefer the choice of soft and elongated lines, without neglecting the aspect related to comfort and functionality.

Besides the sofa and the armchairs, an essential element of a 50's living room is certainly represented by the classic coffee table characterized by the typical geometric shapes, so much in vogue at that time.

Alternatively, you can choose to arrange in your living room modular tables in Nordic Scandinavian style (link Scandinavian style article), able to integrate perfectly into an environment designed according to the dictates of 50s style.

In this regard, we would like to suggest the very refined Set of two Irlanda side tables, with a rounded shape and a solid fir wood top with Natural finish and a black metal base. This is a set of coffee tables perfect to be arranged in the context of a living room that is configured in a vintage 50's style of furniture.

Vintage style living room 60s

Exactly like the 50's, the next decade in terms of style and design can also boast its legions of fans. The 60's, perhaps in some ways even more so than the 50's, represent a time of great creativity and imagination, in every expression of art.

The furniture of a vintage 60's living room is expressed in a minimal and square character, able to surprise for its elegance and authenticity. The magic of the fabulous 60's, with the great creative explosion in the world of design is an expression of timeless style, which continues to fascinate, involve and inspire architects and operators in the furniture industry.

To influence the style of the 60s was undoubtedly the advent of Pop Art, which determined the great generational renewal that characterized those years. The 60s are years full of creative ferment, modernity and look to the future. As far as interior design is concerned, those years witnessed a great explosion of colors and light: the predominance of bright and vivid colors and hues, is affirmed with the advent of the optical theme that affects the decorations.

Another fundamental characteristic of the 60's is represented by the arrival on the market of household appliances characterized by an extremely functional and at the same time innovative packaging.

In order to furnish a living room inspired by the 60's design, you will have to prefer the choice of bright and sparkling tones and colors, full of imagination and dynamism. Eccentricity is undoubtedly a distinctive feature of 60s design.

For the color of the walls you can then choose a bright shade, to be combined with furniture rich in personality and able to combine with each other with bright color contrasts.

The shapes of the furniture of the 60's tend to be rounded, thus contributing to give a feeling of warmth and comfort inside the rooms, recreating an almost futuristic and futuristic atmosphere. For the realization of furniture and furnishings, wide use of plastic and processed wood.

Living room in 70s vintage style

After the configuration of a vintage living room 50s and 60s, here we are finally arrived at the 70s. The latter are probably not endowed with a great personality in terms of style, which had instead characterized the previous decades: however, even the 70s, in terms of style and interior design, are able to recreate important suggestions and emotions.

So how to recreate the splendor of the 70s in the spaces of your living room? The 70's were certainly a decade synonymous with revolution in every human experience: from culture and society, through politics, up to the ways of life.

Even in the field of interior design, the 70s were characterized by radical changes, which introduced functional solutions, which in a sense paid more attention to the configuration of style. The furniture of a living room designed according to the dictates of the 70s style should therefore be non-conformist and in a sense almost provocative, or able to break the patterns and traditions that until then had characterized the living spaces.

The 70s represented an era that exuded freedom and nonconformity: this inevitably translated into furnishings characterized by great chromatic contrasts and expressiveness. Wallpaper represents an important status symbol of 70s design. At that time, designers let themselves be carried away by creativity and imagination, giving life to particular seats, which soon became classic icons of the sector.

With regard to the shape and style of the furniture is good to point out that during this decade, they varied repeatedly: the sudden change was in those years synonymous with great freedom. Just in the 70's took place in our country and all over the world the definitive affirmation of the Scandinavian Nordic style, with the advent of the furniture in fine wood (such as teak).

Another aspect that has characterized the design of the 70s is the progress: they make their appearance in the living rooms of those years the first stereo systems and the presence of the television is consolidated permanently. Finally, it is good to point out how the furniture of the 70s are characterized by a great functionality, which is expressed for example in the presence of many drawers applied to furniture, or even in the presence of numerous shelves, capable of containing a variety of objects.