10 ideas for furnishing in the style of the 80s: let’s take a look at which furniture, combinations and colors to choose, which furnishing accessories to use to furnish your home as if it had just come out of the 80s.
Well yes, the 80s are back! Or rather: they have never gone away, because 80s fashion has been around for some years now back on the crest of the wave with a revival of outfits, films, books, TV series and, now, also with regards to interior design. Of course, not everything that was there in the 80s fascinates for the style, some elements are decidedly too flashy or now obsolete, yet the beautiful, creative, colorful part of that period is back to dress our homes with a riot of imagination and versatility.
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Think back to cult films of the time like the Goonies, Harry, this is Sally or others … do you remember the atmospheres? The furnishing of homes and public places? Colors? Well: we help you with this article a recreate that design exactly for your home… maybe with a touch of modernity and functionality. Here is for you well 10 ideas to decorate your home in the 80s style. At the bottom, as always, you will find a rich gallery that collects all our suggestions.
1. Green and orange 80’s style living room
Color is key in an environment furnished in the style of the 80s, especially when it gives life to fascinating contrasts as in the case we show you below. The walls of this beautiful design living room with a decidedly minimal look were completely painted green, while the touch of color that breaks is entrusted to orange armchair with sinuous and rounded lines.
A low wooden coffee table with a circular top and gold-colored inserts e the suspension lamp with curved and minimal lines complete the modern and at the same time vintage look of this beautiful living room.
2. A blaze of pink for a lounge-disco
Okay, the image we show you below reproduces a decidedly unconventional environment and typically 80s. It seems in fact to be in the middle of a nightclub of those years, completely painted in many shades of lilac and pink.
Sure, furnishing an entire room in this style could be downright difficult, but you can take a cue from some elements: for example the beautiful ones armchairs with a unique design, which will certainly not go unnoticed.
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3. Black and brown 80’s dining room
Let’s abandon the vivacity of pink for a moment to return with our feet firmly on the ground, in a environment with a formal and minimal look, but with a good dose of sober and refined 80’s taste.
The vintage look is respected in the forms of lamps, chairs and tables, in materials, wood, plastic and ceramic coatings, and in the colors, in this case al burnt earth color of the tiles matches a ice gray of the walls and the beautiful black ceiling, very stylish. Touch of class: the wooden sideboard with the beautiful geometric decoration blue.
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4. 80’s bedroom in princely style
A definitely feminine room and organized according to all the rules of the 80s: flounces, decorated furniture, large frames on the walls. If you don’t have the courage to revive the 80’s in your bedroom up to this point, take a cue from some details fundamentals capable of recreating the atmosphere: the combination of different fashions and styles is one of them.
5. Colors and rock and roll for an 80’s studio
Let’s go back to one modern reinterpretation of the 80s. In the image we show you below, they have been used typically vintage design elements but which recall in particular the most festive soul of those years.
Luminous writings, armchairs with an ergonomic shape, imaginative sculptures, color block texture or striped and many bright shades combined together.
6. 80’s kitchen-living room with an industrial touch
Who says that two styles so precise and so distant can’t they be fused together? Here is the proof that when you take the right elements and mix them wisely, the resulting mix is stunning and very elegant. In this case, in a decidedly industrial environment, with bare and concrete-like walls, metal structures of visible lighting, iron and wood shelves, 80s traits have been inserted: the beautiful sofa with rounded shapes over all.
7. Brown and gold living room: 80s doc environment
Gold and brown maybe it is one of the most typical combinations of the 80s, especially as regards the more formal or representative environments.
8. Curved shapes for an 80’s bedroom
And the furnishing accessories? Fundamental, especially if you want to recreate an 80’s atmosphere but without spending a fortune. Then bet on cushions, yellow and with a bizarre curved shape, like the ones we show you in the image below. And don’t forget the themed prints and globular lamps.
9. Eighties and minimal atmosphere
Minimal and 80s: do you think it is an impossible combination? And instead you are wrong. Focus on neutral colors, few contrasts and clean lines, with a well thought-out alternation of curved and straight lines. In the image that we show you below, everything has been focused on the brightness of the ivory walls, the delicacy of pale pink furniture and the sober contrast of armchair, pouf and carpet gray in color.
A reference to the darker contrasts is in the bronze lamp, in window frame and, finally, in the large abstract print.
10. Geometric textures on the ground and on the walls
Last idea for a Really 80’s environment: geometric textures. As we told you at the beginning, geometric decorations they can really change the face of a room by giving it that vintage 80s air. In this case, the combination between the print on the wall and the carpet.
10 ideas for furnishing in the style of the 80s: images and photos
Bold design elements, natural materials, geometric patterns, bright colors – if you go back to the 80s you will surely be able to imagine all this. What do you think, then, of decorating your home in this style? Take a look at our gallery.
