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How to Decorate a Room With Famous Vintage Music Posters

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If you love music and you have rooms or a home that is themed to different eras then are some very famous and iconic music posters that you can buy to decorate those rooms with.

For instance, if you are into a Mad Men or Fifties style of décor you might enjoy the famous image of the Rat Pack standing in front of the Sands hotel in Las Vegas, just before playing a big gig. Yet another famous image from that era features Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and the rest of the gang playing pool. You can also get a famous poster of Sammy Davis Junior, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin Live At Carnegie Hall.

If your era is the sixties then you might relate to hanging a poster of the Beatles crossing Abbey road. You can also get a later poster from the seventies of all five Beatles from the “Let It BE” album. Another popular Beatles poster is The Beatles Yellow Submarine cover which is very psychedelic and suits decors from the early seventies.

Posters of Elvis Presley from that era are great too. There is also a great seventies style of iconic image that features Elvis in his white suited glory playing in Las Vaegas that is easy to find online.

If you are doing a décor that has more of a casual seventies flair then you could always decorate in the hippie style. An idea is to use the famous Jimi Hendrix poster where is done in burgundies and blues and surrounded by a halo of purple and yellow stripes. There is also the Pose poster which features the artist done in black, white and blood red.

If your décor is a bit causal and late seventies, complete with Ikea shelves and bean bags from BeanBags.com , you can get coupons for BeanBags.com on a site like CouponKid.com . Then put up posters of John Lennon in New York or John Lennon from Imagine will compliment your walls nicely. There is also a very famous John Lennon People for Peace Poster which features him singing at his white piano with a big peace sign over his head.

If Punk was a bit more your style and your décor is late seventies and early eighties neon and shabby chic then you might want to buy a retro Ramones Rocket to Russia poster which features the leather clad band in photographic greys and whites bordered with bright purple writing. You can also get versions of this poster with pink writing. Other popular images of the Ramones include the Ramones Presidential Seal Poster and the black and white Ramones Gabba Gabba Hey Poster.

How to Decorate With Retro Modern Clocks

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If you own a mid-century style condo or home then you are in luck when it comes to decorating with clocks. There are all kinds of amazing styles of wall clocks that come from that era. Many companies are also making reissues of these styles that they actually made in the fifties.

The starburst style of retro clock is very popular. These look like flat versions of the sputnick style of hanging pendant lamp that was so poplar back then. You can find all kinds of variations of this style. One mass-produced style that you can even find in Wal-mart features spikes coming out form a smaller center that have tiny round mirrors. Other styles found all over the place include single radiating metal spokes with round knobs or tubes for ends . The spiked style can even be found in oak and aluminum variation with the center of the clock being metal and the spokes being unstained oak slats. The metal versions of these clocks can be like sunbursts with layers and layers of spikes that are placed in a certain ay to create an optical illusion.

Another shape associated with the fifties is the bullit eye shaped. This is a long radial oval. You see this shape as part of alarm clock design but also in retro reproductions of wall clocks.

The types of clocks you would find in mid-century offices or schools are also quite poplar. These are square or round clocks with grayish or green numbers and hands that quite large. Some companies offer them in revamped glowing versions.

Rectangular or lozenge shaped clocks with giant faces with regular numerals den in Helvetica or Times New roman type fonts are also very popular retro style clocks. Clocks like this are often snow white with great big white letters. They also come in big round disks.

The disk shape is also seen in designs that are late fifites and early sixties that have a bit of an op-art edge. Free standing alarm clocks that re completely round in shape are also from this era.

Clocks made out of old vinyl records are also popular. There are no numbers on these, just the hands and the record. Some companies are offering this retro style clock in colors like bright red or gold.

If you like op-art clocks from the sixties consider getting a black and white dome clock. This is a clock with a convex lens that only as a giant 12 and a giant six in white print on it’s otherwise black face.