If gren makes you smile choose this green border napkin with napkins rings that double up on this color of life.

Kim Seybert with Striped Border Ring Vintage Style Napkin

Kim Seybert Green Enamel Napkin Ring

Horchow Passementerie Rope Gate Placemats

With an Irish flair these hand made Passementerie placemats are sure to make both host and guest feel like they’re attending somewhere special.

L’Objet Gold Plated Turtle and Frog Napkin Rings at Neiman Marcus

Kim Seybert New Quill Border Napkin at Bloomingdales

Fit for a wedding these quill border napkins make any table regal. Pair with gold tone napkins rings found both above and below.

Sur La Table – Golden Bee Napkin Ring

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Don’t let your shower curtain be simply something that prevents the bathroom floor from getting wet. Rather make it a statement piece, artwork, something that expresses the personality of you or your family. From Macy’s to Neiman Marcus find all of these wonderful pieces online. Just click on each picture to take you to the appropriate order page.

Retro Home Decor Shower Curtain Picks Part 1:

Ozone by Em Fabric Shower Curtain

Bed Bath and Beyond

With a nod to the 1960′s the Ozone Shower Curtain in stark monotones is the perfect accent to a bathroom done in Black and White or Bold Colors.

Matouk Monogrammed Shower Curtain

Horchow

With a look that would work in the tidy Hercule Poirot’s salle de bain this straight clean lined shower curtain is a 1930′s look that works great with the soap dish found here.

Ruffle Shower Curtain

Neiman Marcus

Victorian style with a punch of color, Steampunk with vibrance. This ruffled shower curtain has got your bathroom covered in the beauty of gathered fabric.

Le Bain Shower Curtain

Neiman Marcus

With French style a Black and White 1930′s style vintage shower curtain says class and style with sophisticated personality.

Sin in Liner Shower Curtain

Design Public

With Victorian shades of France, this Black and White shower curtain, will make an otherwise bland bathroom exciting.

Give a Hoot Shower Curtain

Macy’s

With 1950′s and 1960′s quirk, orange and turquoise mod owls add flavor and humor to to any bathroom with this happy shower curtain from Macy’s.

Geometric Square Black Vinyl Shower Curtain

Bed Bath and Beyond

Mod squares adorn this shower curtain. Perfect for coordinating your bathroom with the rest of your 50s inspired home.

Thomas Paul Shower Curtain – Octopus

Design Public

Giant squid or Octopus. Jules Verne couldn’t have done it better. Don’t go 20,000 Leagues Under, bring the sea life to you in this Steampunk inspired shower curtain.

Du Bois Fabric Shower Curtain

Bed Bath and Beyond

Serious Mad Men style horizontal stripes. Rich sombre tones make it great for the men in your life or any place where a frilly bathroom won’t do.

Go See Dots Fabric Shower Curtain

Bed Bath and Beyond

1960′s mod circles will bring a cheery note to any bathroom where this is hung.

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Whether you have  a big bathroom or a small one, one of the key yet often forgotten about elements is a good soap dish. In these days where were used to having liquid soap in office environments, we can forget the one way of saving a few dollars for the things that were really interested in is with the every day products that we use. Using cake soap can not only be better for the skin but also usually costs a bit less, leaving you extra money that you can use for something that you’re more interested…like decorating. Here are the top picks at Retro Home Decor for vintage style soap dishes.

Here are our Top Ten Soap Dish choices!

Retro Home Decor Soap Dish #1

From the Pottery Barn a 1930s / 1940s style metal soap dish, with black on white signage. With a clean line, and open bottom for good drainage, it works well with Deco styling in the rest of your home.

Retro Home Decor Soap Dish #2

Paris Vintage Soap Dish Enamel French style dish from Knobs and More Home Decor brings European flavor to your bathroom with it’s rose design and red and white motif.

Retro Home Decor Soap Dish #3

From Bed Bath and Beyond you’ll take one look at this soap dish and design you want to decorate with the complete bathroom set, but even if you don’t the black and white design with adorable script writing makes this a vintage styled must.

Retro Home Decor Soap Dish #4

Simply gorgeous styling makes this wall mounted soap holder perfect even for those that take a more modern approach to their home decor. Available at Restoration Hardware.

Retro Home Decor Soap Dish #5

Similar to it’s red and white styled counterpart above this French Pink Soap Dish adds lovely vintage flair to any bathroom and is so cute I’d be temped to double its use it as a jewelry holder while on vacation as well.

Retro Home Decor Soap Dish #6

If your choice is for wire and nothing but wire, this vintage style claw foot metal soap holder is perfect for holding soap as well as a sponge or wash cloth. It comes in a variety of metal finishes.

Retro Home Decor Soap Dish #7

Metal and ceramic bringing to mind the turn of the century through the 1940′s makes Retro Home Decor Soap Dish #7 a great all around vintage choice. Wall mounted styling allows it to be a preferred choice for bathrooms and sinks with limited space.

Retro Home Decor Soap Dish #8

If a soap dish could be any cuter it would have puppies on it. Seriously though, if adorable country chic is your retro choice than the Vintage Memories soap dish is for you. Complete with ribbon what more welcoming way could you have to wash your hands.

Retro Home Decor Soap Dish #9

Looking as if it would have come out of a 16th century castle with a look of aged metal this soap dish really highlights home design that mixes ancient majestic with rustic finishes.

Retro Home Decor Soap Dish #10

Full of full on art deco styling, this brass metal soap holder on a wall mount is just the right one when you want a more masculine ambiance to your WC.

Vintage Bath Towels

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From angles to start color contrasts, we’re focusing on the bed being in Black and White with punches of color , angles and metal surrounding it.

The modernist feel of the era was a combination of new thinking and a venturing away from the tried of true of clothing and decor from decades past. The 1950s brought about more color into the standard home and the mod era ran with this, by revving up color with color blocking as well as color contrasting . Retro Home Decor is taking the retro flavor from this time period and finding modern day pieces to bring your Mod bedroom to life!

We’re going to start out with a key piece and design the mod bedroom around it. We’ve Singgh Kartono Klock  clock for this.

Clock – Retro Home Decor Singgih Kartono Klock Design Public

The Kartono clock adds a quirky personality as well as the stark Black and White contrast of the mod decor. Numberless and with clean lines, it’s a perfect addition to a bedside table.

Bedding options - As your bed will be the focal point of your mod bedroom. Choose something stark preferable in Black, and than add pillows and other accessories to add punch.

Black Microsuede Comforter

Silky Soft Shearloft Blanket

Micro Fleece Push Bright Red Blanket

Kate Spade Ampersand & Square toss pillow

Jill Zarin Zoe European Sham

Thai Silk Throw Pillows at only $15 each, buy 10 and have fun using them all about the house!

Another key room feature that is often viewed as an accessory, but can make or break the completion of the feeling that you’re going for are, side tables and end tables, they’re a highlight for a vintage bedroom with a 1960s Retro vibe.

Metal side table from Horchow

Hudson Side Table from Horchow

Ethan Allen Felix End Table

Vitra Prismatic Side table from Velocity

Window Treatments – going with the same theme of Black. Having black drapes or curtains, makes the ultimate statement, but you don’t have to completely shut yourself off from the light. Adding some sheer white voile is a nice contrast and helps bring in the sun.

Maytex Microfiber window panels

Sheer voile curtains in Black

Zebra Embossed Thermal Blackout Window Drapes

Consider making your own with retro mod print fabric

Don’t forget your walls. Just a few key pieces can completely change the flavor of a room. A mod look will be a lot more sparse than many other interior styles, but it doesn’t mean that you have to skip it all together. Here are some choices, that will add to your walls, without taking away from the overall look.

MOD art sconce and candle holder

Mod Square Vinyl Wall Stickers are quirky and make a great background design.

Pendulus Pendulum style wall mirrors

Retro Home Decor Retro Mod Bedroom Black White and Color part 2 coming up next!

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Dolce 4 Shelf folding bookcase 

Display Bookcase in Cappuccino Finish 

Planked Cherry 5 Shelf Bookcase 

Country Cottage Bookcase with sliding glass doors 

Old Modern 5  shelf bookcase

Winsome Wood 4 Tier A Frame Shelf 

Five Tier Black Ladder Bookshelf 

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