Spray It Retro

Vintage, retro, 60s pop – call it what you like but the flamboyant colour and pattern of the 60s and 70s is back – albeit in a more refined mix. Across fashion, interiors and the arts, the vibrant colours, bold patterning and eye-catching swirls of psychedelia are being used in smaller quantites, as a feature or focal point, instead of as a completely homogenous approach. A wall-mounted canvas, or piece of fabric or wallpaper, with a Marimekko or Florence Broadhurst design, a vintage throw or retro furniture interspersed with more contemporary pieces – it’s a more eclectic approach this time around. An excellent, inexpensive way of introducing a retro piece of furniture to your home is to scour the council pick-ups or second hand dealers in your area for discarded pieces of furniture that, with a little TLC, can be reinstated to their former, colourful glory. The groovy chair pictured was bought in a second-hand shop for a few dollars, given a light sand and then spray painted with Squirts Undercoat and then two light coats of Squirts Bright Orange.  The whole process took less than an hour to do – not including the half an hour drying time allowed between coats – and cost less than $13 in materials. The white metal table meanwhile, also a second-hand shop find, was given the same treatment using Squirts in White gloss. The chair and table worked perfectly with a drop of vintage fabric and some vintage glass wear bought at the same second hand shop.
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