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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…
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…
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…
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…
For more than a decade I had wanted a retro style 1950s dining table and chairs set in perfect condition that would fit into our mid century home. Eventually I settled on reupholstering an old set from the 1940s.
Last week I had to stop vacillating and finally make a decision in order to buy the retro colored tile for our mid century bathroom renovation and begin tiling. When it comes to making any kind of big ticket purchase or long term decisions, I ponder over them for days, weeks, or even months, rather than easily choosing. Tile fits under both of those categories. It didn’t help that the tile manufacturer, B & W Tile, had plenty of different…
I have to give my husband’s best friend’s grandma a big thank you when I see her. Back in the 1940s and 1950s, after she and her husband bought their home, she created a scrapbook full of clippings of home decorating ideas she liked. It has hundreds of either black and white or color images from a variety of old magazines and catalogs, everything from cute kitchen nooks, to furniture, to baby nurseries. Sadly, about 5 years ago, her home…