Here is a third selection of boomerang laminates to consider for your retro kitchen renovation. I found this set, which are from a for-the-trade-only collection by Wilsonart, at NewRetroDining.com. $400 for a 4′ x 10′ sheet — double the price of Formica’s boomerang laminate. But… some cool color options here, to be sure. Please note, renovators, that there seem to be multiple online companies selling these boomerang collections. Also, Wilsonart has informed me that residential buyers can buy from this “Indie” line …. it is just a special order placed through a fabricator or dealer who would actually be the one ordering it from Wilsonart. So you may want to try this route, as well. If you want the Formica — I tend to believe that the best prices are likely to be at your local big box hardware store.
Boomerang laminates from Bars & Booths 
Boomerang laminate from Formica 
Retro cabinet knobs and pulls – a whole new selection from Rejuvenation — including the elusive boomerang / chevron pull 
I like the WIlsonart the best. The boomerang shapes are more defined and easier to see. The Bars & Booth’s choice is rather muddled.
John
I like Bars & Booths’ correct version better :p
I agree with John. The Wilsonart version looks much more like a boomerang. Bars & Booths sometimes looks like a boomerang and sometimes looks like the outline of a pond. Oh well, I still wish they’d figure out – again – how to make laminate like Textolite’s Spungold, Twilight, Camelot and Gold Nugget. How can you “lose” a technology? Especially one that generated such cool things?
Pam,
It is so funny these posts came up as I was poking around the Wilsonart site the day before this all came up. Did you see the Here and There Pattern, aqua and pink. I just love it.
I am currently on a quest to see if we could redo our kitchen in a Mondrian style (which is why I was on the Wilsonart site). Do you have any suggestions on how to approach designing in that style. I want do do white, aqua and orange. I am assuming then I need black as a grid/accent color but I am not sure.
Thanks for all that you do. RR is my first web stop every day!!
Rebecca
Hi Rebecca, I don’t know that there is a single theory about how to do the Mondrian kitchen. I presume that you have looked at all my posts for reference?
Pam,
Yes I have. It is funny because it was a style I really liked but didn’t really know the name of it until I read some of your posts. I will reread the one on the bathroon redo and maybe that will get my design juices flowing.
Rebecca, is this the design you meant, There and Back? It’s not easy to find these boomerang and other patterns unless you know to look in the Designers section instead of Homeowners!
http://samples.wilsonartcontract.com/p-82-there-and-back.aspx
Yes, I am sorry, it is there and back. You also have to click on View Larger Image to see the aqua. Thanks for getting the right name.
Why do the designers get to have all the fun! =-)
Rebecca
Hey Rebecca,
Did you see the Wilsonart Mondrian pattern? Or would that be too much of a good thing?
http://samples.wilsonartcontract.com/p-46-mondrian.aspx
We have the Wilsonart laminate boomerang design in 4×8 sheets for under $300.00 per sheet. You can email me at info@hdcountertops.com
I may be alone here but I don’t like the Wilsonart “Retro” series patterns at all, they just seem like a caricature of the original Brooks Stevens “Skylark” design. Of greater importance is that Wilsonart apparently offers a custom laminate service and can turn out a laminate based on customer-supplied artwork:
http://www.wilsonartcontract.com/Laminate/Custom/
I have no idea how much this would cost, what the minimum order would be or who you would have to know to get it done….but imagine the possibilities.
Dan O (and other readers) – different stroke for different folks. Please remember my pretty much #1 rule for comments on this blog is: No One Can Be Made To Feel Bad For Their Choices. Some folks are gonna like the Wilsonart boomerangs – hey, I like them – so please take care with the objections, okay? Also, thanks for the tip on creating your own… I have a good contact at Wilsonart and will put the question to her: Whether a single homeowner can use this service, or whether the purchase requirements for volume are realistically too steep.
Hello Pam (and other readers), I hope you can offer me some advice. I am writing from New Zealand and I am rennovating our old holiday house and want to keep it 1960is ish style/retro. All I need now is to get the right laminate for the benchtops. I have done alot of investigation as, in New Zealand, we can’t get any of the retro styles – true! I think the best colour for my kitchen would be the grey cracked ice range – I believe this is from Wilson Art – but their NZ distributors say that they can’t get it for me. I have found one of the resellers in the US who will send to me but it is $445 plus the same again for shipping the one sheet. Can you confirm who makes it and any other advice or suggestions? Thank you, appreciate any help. Regards, Desley
Desley — please use the navigation on this site, it’s all there.