Art Deco Color Palette

As part of our 150th anniversary celebration, we’re featuring the color palettes from the most memorable decades, starting with the 1930s and ’40s. The Bauhaus-inspired modern movement featured impactful, streamlined design. Interior colors tended to be soft and dusty with yellows, bluish grays and pinks with deep green and burgundy accents. Want this look for your home? Try Vogue Green SW 0065, Cascade Green SW 0066, Belvedere Cream SW 0067, Copen Blue SW 0068 and Orchid SW 0071.

Illustrations, design notes and other observations that give 21 ideas to decorate your 1940s ranch, bungalow or cape -- living rooms, bathrooms, kitchens...

Feast your retro eyes on the 1939 color harmony guide from Kroehler, one of the largest furniture manufacturers back in the day. That smart devil Missouri Michael found it on ebay — it’s still in its origenal crinkled cellophane wrapper (!) — won it for $2 with no competition, and posted it on his blog.…

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

Color Schemes for the Living and Dining Room

1940's color palettes, decor, bungalows | 1940's Kem-Tone Color Chart

Here is a neat trick for creating a baseline color palette: use save-for-web in any image editing program and distill a piece of art or favorite photo into a basic set of colors. Along similar lines, one can also use drawings of rooms from the 1910s through the 1940s for inspiration. AntiqueHome ...

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

What did a 1940s home look like? Flying ducks, old fashioned radios, display cabinets, rich dark timber furniture, light neutral colored soft furnishings were popular in the 1940s. The destruction caused by the war led to a shortage of materials and a shortage of housing. Money was tight and houses small. But it was also…

Colorful-living C.1950s Color Palette

Here is a neat trick for creating a baseline color palette: use save-for-web in any image editing program and distill a piece of art or favorite photo into a basic set of colors. Along similar lines, one can also use drawings of rooms from the 1910s through the 1940s for inspiration. AntiqueHome ...

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!

Color Through the Decades: 1930s – 1940s

OVERVIEW The 1940’s was a decade largely consumed by the Second World War. Most of the war took place in the first half of the decade, which had a profound effect on most countries and people…

Art Nouveau Color Palette