Curriculum
Retro House Styling
Eight lessons with homework. You do not need a renovation. You need a method for the rooms you already walk through.
01 The retro eye
Retro is a method, not a decade
Two neighboring decades, one temperature, and why copying a single year reads as a set.
How to read a room before you buy
Light, bones, paths, and wood undertones. Measure once so the lounge chair does not eat the room.
02 Color, material, light
Palettes that age well
Ground, wood, cloth, metal. Combinations that hold, and why cool gray fights orange.
Wood, metal, textile
Teak and walnut, brass that matches, velvet and wool instead of printed novelty.
Light that makes vintage pieces land
Ambient, task, and glow. 2700K bulbs, linen shades, and the lamp on the sideboard.
03 Rooms that hold together
The living room
A credenza on the quiet wall, mixed seating, one clock, pattern on the rug.
The kitchen
Quiet structure, short runs of tile, brass hardware, three things on the counter.
The bedroom
Low wood, warm lamps, mustard or rust on calm walls, less furniture than you think.