1950s colors

I was digging through the basement at an estate sale a while back, and found a manilla envelope full of vintage paint chip brochures - you gotta love the folks who never throw anything away! A couple of them are dated 1957, so I'm assuming they are all from around that time... Before I list them I figured I should scan in the chips to post here - they might be helpful to those folks who are retro renovating, and looking for authentic paint colors. Enjoy, and be sure to click to enlarge the…

50s vintage color palette created by retroburk that consists #cc2d30,#9bdbc1,#efe8ad,#aadd96,#e8a5af colors.

"There's nothing finer than being in your diner!" - Jerry Seinfeld. We all love the nostalgia of a diner. The colors, the decor, the food and the aesthetic take us back to another time. I was inspired to create this palette from the iconic 50's American diners, using bold, vibrant colors and soft neutrals. Included in this digital file are 30 of my hand-picked colors (as a .swatches file) that are ready to install in Procreate. Also included is a HEX Code chart to use in Canva, Figma or the…

I always loved this chart by Benjamin Moore. They all kind of seem similar in variation except for the 1960s sorry but those colors are ugly!

Colorful-living C.1950s Color Palette

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Shermin-Williams has presented these “retro” colors for the Fall 2009. This color palette from the 50’s is now bringing a nostalgic, yet trendy flare to interior walls: Bringing a…

Doing up a vintage or retro caravan is a bit like doing up a vintage car. Not only is it addictive, but you are also faced with a number of very similar decisions to make. Can you restore it back to original or are you better to put your own spin on it like the hot-rod boys? What of the existing layout still works or is worth saving? Is it a gut job? Excerpt from Vintage and Retro Caravans Downunder Words: Marilyn Jessen Don Jenssen's father hand-built the furniture in each of our Liteweight…

OVERVIEW By the end of the decade, the world had largely recovered from World War II and the Cold War developed from its modest beginning in the late 1940s, to a hot competition between the United …

I upload a handy guide to 1954 original paint colors for kitchens, bathrooms and wood molding -- great if you need paint colors for a retro house.