1950 color palette

Colorful-living C.1950s Color Palette

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.

1950's Color combo.

Manufacturing processes improved greatly in the 1940s so much that ready-to-wear clothing was almost as affordable as fabric alone. The need and desire to sew clothing at home significantly decreased in the 1950s. For those who still chose to sew their own clothing, the diversity of new fabrics and the variety of colors, prints and

1951 Buick Roadmaster Woodie Station Wagon '8W1 381' 06 Color Palette

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…

Sherwin Williams Color Preservation Palettes (Retro 1950's Paint Colors) Blogged at erwinhouse.com

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 …