IKEA's Colorful Glass Coffee Mugs Are Giving Total Retro Vibes On A Budget

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If you love retro decor and coffee core, it's likely that IKEA's SKUGGSTUBB duo-toned coffee mugs will become an item you didn't know you needed in your kitchen. The see-through glass mugs by designer Willy Chong come as either a red-brown mug with a green handle or a green mug with a red-brown handle. If your style leans toward mixing and matching, this IKEA product lends itself to that in spades. The mugs boast heat-resistant glass and are both microwave and dishwasher-safe. And if you're on a budget, then you'll really like them. A set of two mugs sets you back less than eight bucks.

Those are the visual particulars about the mug set. What's more fun to talk about is how they can play a key role in your retro-styled kitchen or dining room coffee nook. Due to the mugs' bright color scheme, they'd work well with vintage or retro decor styles, like the popular mid-century modern styles. These decor schemes often include bright pops of color juxtaposed against a backdrop of natural woods or metals. The bursts of color can come from anywhere. A vintage yellow chair. A red toaster. Or retro coffee mugs, like these IKEA ones. If you're not sure about hosing your kitchen walls down in giant waves of technicolor paint, setting these mugs out on an open shelf offers you a safe way to introduce more varied hues in your kitchen's color palette, without asking you to go overboard.

The Willy Chong mugs are fun embodied on their own. They're even way more fun if you pair them with another IKEA retro treat, FENGÖMMARE Glass Spoons. These are multicolored, with most retro-vibe colors being represented in their tiny little spoony bodies – blue, green, red, and brown. (In other words, they match the mugs without looking like copies.) The IKEA mugs, along with the retro spoons, would look sharp in the vintage coffee-core corner you're setting up in your kitchen. Style this coffee-lovers' space with a dainty coffee table, a built-in booth or retro bench, and have the IKEA mugs and spoons resting on an Abawi Nexus Acacia wood serving tray, with bowls of sugar and pitchers of cream in the middle.

Or if you're designing a whole, stand-alone at-home coffee station with a retro theme in the kitchen, buy a few sets of the IKEA mugs to fill the station's cupboards. If the location of your soon-to-be coffee station features built-in cupboards, take the doors off the cabinets and paint the interiors a color that makes the coffee mugs stand out. For example, if you've bought the red-brown mugs, paint the cabinets a mint green paint color. You can use the same concept in reverse if you have floating shelves instead of enclosed cupboards. Just paint the shelves mint green instead of the walls behind them. This small step turns the IKEA coffee mugs into prominent accent pieces in your kitchen's decor. As far as mug decor projects go, this one's retro-style-friendly and memorable, despite the small price tag.