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Painting a Tween Bedroom…A Stylized Tree with Circles

Painting a Tween Bedroom…A Stylized Tree with Circles

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Although it was pouring rain on Thursday and a terrible day for gardening, it turned out to be a lovely day to work indoors, and I just happened to have this mural commission already scheduled on my calendar. To see a little more of my artwork, visit Murals and More by Lianne over at wordpress.com. The homeowners just bought their first house and their two daughter’s finally got their very own rooms. The ten year old, Becca, has been wanting…

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Retro Kitchen Images From The 1940s and 1950s Scrapbook

Retro Kitchen Images From The 1940s and 1950s Scrapbook

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For the last few weeks, we have been without a working printer/ scanner but finally bought a new one this week.  I decided to try it out by scanning more images from Mrs. Crabtree’s 1940’s and 1950’s home decorating scrapbook.  If you want to read my post about how I ended up with the scrapbook and what’s in it, click here.  It takes a while to scan and crop each picture, so I am just working on the images in…

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Vintage Tile Mosaic Floors

Vintage Tile Mosaic Floors

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  Up until a recent renovation at the Long Beach Airport, underneath the carpet a series of beautiful floor tile mosaics were buried for decades.  The floor tile mosaics were designed as part of the Southern California Art Project of the Works Project Administration in the late 30s and early 40s.  Some of the mosaics have been visible on the staircase and in front of the upstairs restaurant, but the remainder of mosaic tile was covered over by carpet for…

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1949 Howell Retro Dinette Set Is Done

1949 Howell Retro Dinette Set Is Done

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Much to the relief of my patient hubby, I was finally able to settle on a vintage 1940s/ 1950s Formica table that fit the majority of my search criteria.  No more constant browsing craigslist multiple times a day for new listings or driving half way across the Southland on our weekends to check out tables.  I found a retro yellow Howell dinette set with four chrome & vinyl chairs, stamped on the under side of the table top with the…

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What’s in our “Retro Bathroom”

What’s in our “Retro Bathroom”

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We wanted the bathroom’s style to blend in with the rest of our old 1940’s house, using both new and vintage materials.  We were going for a look that “the bathroom has been this way all along” and that it just had a few noticeable green updates over the years, like low flow fixtures, Low-E coated/ vinyl window, and florescent lighting over head.  After two months of using it, we absolutely love the bathroom and wish we had done it…

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Photo Tour of Our Retro Blue Bathroom

Photo Tour of Our Retro Blue Bathroom

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The retro bathroom remodel we have been working on, kind of off and on for the last year, is finally finished! Our reinvented early 1940’s bathroom included walling up the doorway to the laundry room, lots of framing, breaking through the opposite wall and opening it into our bedroom, jackhammering out part of a concrete slab under the floor to make room for drains, insulating, updating all the electrical & plumbing, adding venting, adding the cast iron tub, moving the…

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