The Style of a Kitchen in the 1940s

You have decided to go retro and design your kitchen based on popular kitchen styles of the 1940s. Top colors in the 1940s included red and white, Air Force and Navy blue, bright yellow and kelly green. Another popular color scheme during this time was rose and gray.

Glass Knobs and Enamel

• Switch out your old cabinet knobs for glass ones and purchase canisters, bread bins and other kitchen appliances and accessories that feature bright enamel colors.

Table, Chairs, Cabinets

• Purchase an enamel-top kitchen table and chrome chairs. Paint your kitchen cabinets white.

Curtains

• Popular patterns for 1940s kitchen curtains included cherry and apple motifs, notes Dream-kitchen.co.uk.

Linoleum

• Use checkerboard linoleum on your floor.

Jadeite

• Display vintage wood-handled items and jadeite in your retro kitchen. Jadeite is glassware that was mass-produced from the 1930s until the 1970s. It is pale green and opaque. You can find jadeite at yard sales and antique stores. Jadeite is both heat- and stain-resistant

Wall Phone, Prints and Posters

• Hang a vintage black wall phone on your kitchen wall. It will have a rotary dial, of course.

  Find some vintage posters and prints, have them matted and framed, and put them on your kitchen walls.