70s Style - Interior Design Ideas

The twenty-first century is already long past the courtyard, but some houses still have apartments, in which time seems to have stopped fifty years ago. There is still a lot of controversy about that era - some designers consider it tasteless, chaotic, uncomfortable for life. This is the heyday of the subculture of punks and hippies, disco music and the emergence of color televisions. The interiors in the style of the 70s are becoming popular again, practically winning a leading position in some countries.

Features, style characteristic

If today in the countries of the former USSR, people strive for high-tech, minimalist interiors, in Europe, America, the decoration "for nostalgic old times", the old, but still strong, beautiful furniture of that era, is fashionable, expensive. This style is especially popular in the USA, its other name is retro.

The style of this rich and bold, bright and elegant, combining charm and kitsch. Recreating this design at home, it is important not to “overdo it” with the decor, accessories - the interior should not look vulgar, excessive, prevent to relax, but at the same time be recognizable. In this era, interiors are no longer standard, they begin to personalize, adapt to a particular person, his hobbies, interests.

High technology in the design of the house became popular around this time - in the interiors appears a lot of household machines, very different from modern ones. These are small round-shaped refrigerators and large coarse microwaves, voluminous plastic food processors and heavy vacuum cleaners, huge computers with a small screen, and even larger reel tape recorders, washing machines that look like a spaceship and wooden radio legs.

    

Bright colors, accents

On the color palette, the style of the 70s reminds of boho - there are practically no restrictions on the choice of shades. There are many natural, rainbow colors, acid colors. For close rooms, light tones are selected, for spacious rooms - dark. When the windows face south, the colors are cold, the north colors are warm.

The most interesting combinations:

  • sky blue with acid green;
  • pebble with coral;
  • strawberry with iron gray;
  • brown with bottle green;
  • pumpkin orange with sunny yellow;
  • golden with purple;
  • woody brown with pink;
  • beige with purple-black;
  • mustard with jeans;
  • snow white with scarlet;
  • cherry with cornflower;
  • willow with orange.

As the main ones, the interior of the 70s will be decorated with a maximum of two or three colors, but here many small color accents are allowed to help withstand a clear style.

    

Materials, finish

Finishing materials are used very diverse:

  • metal;
  • tree;
  • DSP;
  • plastic;
  • glass;
  • plywood;
  • leather;
  • a rock;
  • vinyl;
  • paint;
  • wallpaper.

The floor is decorated with a board, parquet flooring, which is made of oak, beech, elm, walnut, larch, birch, juniper, maple, pear, ash and other species. Less commonly used laminate, qualitatively imitating natural wood, linoleum in the "chess", fiberboard, covered with red-brown paint.

The walls are also finished with wood, painted with paint, mostly brown, gray-golden, pasted over with wallpaper with a geometric or floral pattern, "rich" texture. The ceiling is usually whitewashed, they are made with a stretch, but qualitatively imitating whitewashing, made of drywall, painted in white. Acceptable use of stucco ceiling decoration, but not too numerous.

The doors here are usually high, almost to the ceiling, and in the apartments “Stalin” there are also double doors, painted in white-blue, silver-gray, violet tones. The windows are mostly wooden, painted white.

The most commonly used parquet "herringbone", which is varnished or painted with translucent paint.

    

Features in the choice of furniture

The furnishings here are streamlined, very shiny, somewhat surreal, welcome asymmetrical shapes. From the materials welcome wood of bog oak, chipboard, bronze, brass fittings, decorative elements of plastic, and wicker furniture is allowed.
Preference is given to upholstered furniture - cozy sofas, bent-glued armchairs, chairs with soft seats and carved backs. The upholstery is chosen predominantly bright, but a more “solid” one is acceptable - graphite gray, chocolate brown.

In the 70s, brightly colored plastic, polypropylene first appeared in the interiors. Round dining tables with chairs, children's furniture, original shelves for indoor flowers were made from it. Such furniture is very elegant, comfortable.

    

Heavy use of textiles

Carpets in the seventies are used a lot - they are luxurious, fluffy, covering almost the entire floor and up to 40% of the surface of the walls. Floor mats are decorated with variegated intricate patterns, and wall, some of which are tapestries, with plot drawings depicting fantastic animals. A “walkway” is placed in the corridor with stripes along the edges, in the kitchen, on the balcony, and in the bathroom, there are also various “rugs”.

A spiny checkered plaid is an indispensable attribute of a cool Soviet flat. Curtains are also thick, almost to the floor, protecting from cold and daylight. All textiles are made in different colors, but with a similar pattern, texture. It uses fur, velvet, velor, natural wool, leatherette. Allowed a lot of multi-colored pillows, capes with fringe, tassels on the upholstered furniture, numerous lace tablecloths, napkins on all horizontal surfaces. The walls are decorated with textile panels, on the windows are placed home-made wicker pots with live plants in flowerpots.

Textiles, preserved from Soviet times, will be able to decorate a modern interior only if it looks flawless.

    

Retro lighting

The lighting is usually plain, but the devices themselves look luxurious - they are crystal. multi-deck pseudo-crystal, multi-tiered chandeliers, tall floor lamps with fabric shades on turned legs, intricate sconces. Small decorative lamps of surrealistic form - lava-lamps and plasma-lamps adjoin them. Workplaces in the kitchen, in the office, in the nursery, are brightly lit with lamps on a long flexible leg with a shiny metal shade.

If desired, an original lampshade using a macrame technique or a lace knit is made on any lighting fixture - only a suitable wire frame will be needed.

    

An example of a modern apartment

Modern time suggests other interior priorities than 50 years ago. Flat TV now no one would guess to cover with a white lace napkin, and under the library is unlikely to allocate a whole room, because any book easier to download from the Internet. In the Soviet Union, at the time of the eternal shortage, people did not have large refrigerators, since there was nothing to store in them, closet-dressing rooms, since not many people could afford a lot of clothes. Because the interior of those times was quite minimalist - it was easier to maintain cleanliness in it.

The decor here is quite varied - from paintings, abstractions in a rectangular frame to colorful posters with foreign stars of the 70s.

    

Entrance hall

A trellis is often placed in the hall - a large mirror with three doors attached to a peculiar dressing table-dresser. It is relatively roomy, but most often takes up a lot of space. If the room is too cramped, instead of a trill, a regular mirror is mounted on the wall in a plain wooden frame, preferably of a dark color.

If you have a home phone, it is chosen in its original form - rounded from bright plastic in acid colors or in a metal case. It is put on a special miniature shelf, located near the mirror. For outerwear there is a wooden hanger, and hats, scarves, umbrellas are hung on real deer horns, covered with varnish.

    

Living room

In the Soviet living room in almost 100% of cases there was a closet-wall. He got his name for the simple reason that this item occupied an entire long wall. Almost everything was stored in it - a huge number of books, since then everything was read, elegant dishes, taken a couple of times a year on holidays, individual items of clothing, small household appliances. For a modern interior, a larger “wall” is picked up, in the middle of which a TV is placed on the shelf, with books, only the most beautiful, in bright covers are left in sight, picking them up in height. Some of the dishes on the glazed shelves also retain, but not all of them - it overly clutters up space.

Opposite the wall is a soft sofa, usually folding, two "Scandinavian" leg chairs. Almost in the center - a coffee table with wheels or on four cone-shaped legs. In the corner a real piano is neatly placed - in modern times a small podium is made for it. If necessary, zoning is done with the help of curtains, folding screens. As a decor apply a geographical map or a real globe.

Instead of a “wall,” sometimes shelves are arranged all the way to the ceiling, and a small study with a desk separates the shelves with books.

    

Kitchen

An indispensable item in the kitchen of the 70s is a sideboard. It was painted white or bright paint, contained in itself the minimal set of dishes, table linen. Kitchen set is white, blue, at least - red, purple. It has a clear geometric shape, no roundness, rough metal decor.

The dining table is decorated with a checkered or colorful oilcloth tablecloth, and a round fringed chandelier lights it up. The table is often made folding, in the form of a "book" - in case of the arrival of guests. The dining area is decorated with a series of narrow shelves with "Soviet" decor arranged on them - painted dishes, knitted dolls "on the teapot", and bright jars with spices.

A large ceramic tile or linoleum with a black and white, black and green "chess" is placed on the floor. The walls are painted with light paint, the apron is laid out with small colored tiles.

Kitchen appliances are selected stylized "antique" - a rounded shape, with massive iron handles. In her mind should not be much - everything is superfluous, ultra-modern, hiding behind the doors of the facades.

    

Bedroom

The bedroom will have a bed with a bedside table - then the item was placed sideways to the wall, the wall lamp with a frosted glass canopy is hung above the bed. Instead of a full bed, a small sofa that will play the role of a place for sitting will be located in small bedrooms, and at night it will be laid out for sleeping. Bedding is chosen exclusively light, monophonic or with stripes, openwork embroidery in some places.

In the dressing area put a two-three-door wardrobe with polished doors, where you store the outerwear on the bar on one side, bedding, underwear - on the other. Sometimes a wooden floor hanger is installed next to it. A shelf of wood and metal wire is hung on one of the walls — books, potted plants, home-made toys, and black and white photographs are placed on it.

    

Bathroom

The bathroom in the USSR was often combined with a toilet. The walls here are made of white monochromatic tiles or having a geometric pattern. The floor is also tiled, but darker. All plumbing fixtures are made white, although if desired, you can order a yellow-brown - artificially aged. The bath itself has brass, copper legs, the same tap.

There is nothing superfluous here - if there is free space, a dressing table-dresser with a mirror is placed, closed shelves are under the bathroom, there is almost no decor.

    

Conclusion

A full-fledged seventies-style interior design is completely uncomplicated, inexpensive if it is decided to recreate it in an old apartment built in the middle of the last century, besides having still not quite dilapidated furniture inherited from the grandmother. Those who want to sometimes set up something similar in modern “sockets”, country houses, but high-quality styling will be more expensive, furniture “antique”, if desired, is made to order from a master cabinetmaker.

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