{"id":1548,"date":"2011-03-28T12:02:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T16:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hickoryfurniture.blogs.eprevue.net\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2011-03-28T12:02:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T16:02:10","slug":"sixties-mod-interior-design-back-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/sixties-mod-interior-design-back-to-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixties Mod Interior Design: Back to the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-meta\">Last Updated Monday, March 28, 2011<\/div> <p>It doesn\u2019t seem all that long ago that the bright colors and modern furniture of the sixties were all the rage.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s now considered \u201cretro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sixties were a tumultuous decade with styles and trends changing radically following the assassination of President Kennedy.\u00a0 The hippie movement, characterized by psychedelic patterns, tie-dye fabric and the return to nature began to influence how we decorated our homes.\u00a0 If you are looking to recreate elements of this design in your home today you will want to introduce some of these ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flower power was huge.\u00a0 We are not talking about the large cabbage roses found on your grandmother\u2019s <a href=\"\/living-room\/sofas\/room-type.aspx\">sofa<\/a>; think whimsical and colorful flowers that appeared on wallpaper, <a href=\"\/products\/fabrics\/\">fabrics<\/a>, <a href=\"\/accessories\/art\/department-type.aspx\">artwork<\/a>, glassware and <a href=\"\/accessories\/department-type.aspx\">home accessories<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Pastels were out and bright primary colors were in.\u00a0 Orange was very popular and could be found on cookware, linens, dishes, etc.\u00a0 Yellow and orange was also a popular color combination along with red, cobalt blue, shocking pink and lime green.<\/li>\n<li>The swirling designs of op-art began popping up everywhere.\u00a0 Mostly done in a black and white, these patterns were inspired by the psychedelic world of the hippie movement.<\/li>\n<li>Much like today\u2019s green movement, a respect for nature began to take place and homes were filled with live plants.<\/li>\n<li>Handcrafted items replaced mass produced items.<\/li>\n<li>Overstuffed furniture was replaced with low slung and sleek <a href=\"\/furniture\/sofas\/department-type.aspx\">couches<\/a> and <a href=\"\/furniture\/chairs\/department-type.aspx\">chairs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>No self-respecting home was without the iconic lava lamp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are many similarities to the green movement of today and the anti-establishment movement of the sixties.\u00a0 Design ideas from that era work nicely with today\u2019s environmentally friendly lifestyle and just might bring back some fond memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Updated Monday, March 28, 2011 It doesn\u2019t seem all that long ago that the bright colors and modern furniture of the sixties were all the rage.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s now considered \u201cretro.\u201d The sixties were a tumultuous decade with styles and trends changing radically following the assassination of President Kennedy.\u00a0 The hippie movement, characterized by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[12],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}