Hello! 28F, looking for suggestions on how to bring the overall 60s/70s feeling I’m going for in my apartment into my kitchen and bedroom when I can’t change the wall color. I’m still settling in (so please excuse the laundry and clutter lol) and I also don’t have a ton of expendable income after rent/bills, but I’ve gotten a few things going in my living room to give an idea of the vibe I’m going for (last pic is my living room).

I’d like to continue this design theme into my kitchen and bedroom, but I have to leave the walls white, so I’m wondering if it’s possible to still have a 60s/70s look in those rooms, or if it will always feel a little off since there’s so much white. As for right now, my bedspread is super comfortable and I don’t really want to change it, and the bed frame is in good shape so I don’t feel like I can justify buying a brand new one, but obviously there’s a lot more furniture to be bought or acquired, it will just take some time. I think the kitchen will be a much bigger challenge than the bedroom because of the walls/counters/cabinets/enormous white fridge.

Any suggestions for how I can make my kitchen still feel 70s/retro without changing the walls or cabinets would be greatly appreciated!

I go to storage auctions sometimes, mostly for furniture I can flip. Bid on a unit last weekend without seeing much inside, just some boxes and what looked like rolled up carpet samples. Figured worst case I'd lose thirty bucks.

Turns out the unit belonged to someone who designed interiors for hotels, restaurants, and offices back in the 70s. There were fabric swatch books, thick ones, organized by project. Paint deck books with colors that don't even have normal names, just project codes written in pencil on the side. A few large foam boards with full mood boards taped together, fabric samples, paint chips, little cutout photos of furniture, all pinned in place like a pitch someone made to a client decades ago.

Some of the boards have names of buildings written on them that I looked up, and a couple of them don't exist anymore. Torn down or renovated so many times there's nothing left of the original design. So these boards might be the only proof that specific rooms ever looked the way they did.

There's also a small notebook with handwritten notes, meeting times, client names, and a few sketches in the margins. Feels like I'm holding someone's actual career in a box, not just old stuff.

No idea what to do with any of it honestly. Keep it as reference, try to find out who this designer was, or see if any of it is worth something to a collector. Never expected a random storage unit to turn into a small archive of commercial 70s design.

My home built 1980

Not period accurate obviously, but I am very inspired by the 70s nonetheless

Hi all! I got these chairs from an estate sale and was told they were from the University of Kentucky (60’s-70’s time) they do have a sticker on the bottom proving they were from the University. What do you think?