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.