Sunday, August 14, 2011

Retro Patio Furniture - Even better Than The Memories

One of the really big movements in produce recently has been the move to reinvent retro. You can find all kinds of restaurants and other buildings, particularly in places like Palm Springs experiencing a revival in retro styles.

But one of the biggest areas to see a boom in redesign has been retro patio furniture. Maybe this is because so many people in the baby boomer generation recall this style of furniture fondly from the days of their youth. Maybe it is because this kind of superior produce brings back memories from a time when life was so much simpler that it is now.

Modern Patio

Whatever the reason, retro patio furniture is hot.

You can find websites on the internet that feature nothing but modern versions of the superior shellback or clamshell steel patio chair. The one where if you left it out in the rain, would start to rust approximately immediately and your dad had to spend hours sanding it down with sandpaper and steel wool before he repainted it.

Other websites, incredibly enough, sell only refinished pieces of original steel patio furniture. The folks who run these sites hunt throughout the country to find patio gliders, or chair or high bar sets from the 40's and the 50's, buy them, refinish them and then resell them online. And they are back ordered for months at a time because so many people want these pieces of vintage Americana.

Other websites have recreated the original designs of the steel Bellaire clamshell produce patio chairs in harvest gold, avocado, turquoise and purple. They only come in a few vintage colors and the frames that make up the arms and legs are all the time white tube steel. Flattened on the bottom for the runners of the legs so that they don't roll on the lawn.

It is imaginable how much range there is in this style. If you want, you can even purchase steel patio tables perfect with red and white patio umbrellas on a pole that sticks right straight through a hole in the middle of the table.

The patio tables of this produce are, of course, all the time white, because white goes with any other color. And if you are really into the retro scene, you buy superior models of drink coolers in red or green. The kind for soda bottles that hung by their necks. And these all come with a bottle opener attached to the end and a tray to drop the bottle caps right into after you open them. All the makings for a perfect summer afternoon.

No matter your selection in style of furniture for your outdoor space, the internet can help you find it. And if what you are really wanting is retro patio furniture, then the web will help you find that too so you can enjoy those perfect summer days out on your patio when life was easy all over again.

Retro Patio Furniture - Even better Than The Memories

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