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Today: Modern day products to recreate yesterday’s flashback kitchen. My finds include:
Pretty cool! If this kitchen wouldn’t make you happy – nothing would!
I’ve written before about mixing countertop surfaces in your 40s 50s or 60s kitchen. But I recently came across these great photos and thought they would be very helpful. The photos show: How to lower cabinetry to create a place to roll out your pie dough (of course). Put a slab of marble here — [...]
As follow up to my post yesterday – with a round up of all the laminates for bathroom counters that are on my radar today – I also recently found this great little history of laminate in the 1950s, from Wilsonart. 2011 update, Wilsonart has taken story down, but here are a few highlights: Laminate [...]
Okay, this is the last day of my little fixation with retro laminates. (For now.) As you know, I am a devotee of the Sherwin Williams Suburban Modern palette, both interior and exterior. So, I have gone through Arpa’s line of solid-colored laminates and for the most part, been able to line up 10 colors [...]
When folks move into new/old 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1970s homes, it seems like one of the biggest and most common needs is to update materials in the kitchen that are on their last legs. In general, if you have a laminate countertop that is in good shape, I’d say: Keep it. Or [...]
I spotted this vintage salesman’s sample showing different styles of metal edging for a kitchen countertop, and it reminded me that I wanted to do a story showcasing some other varieties beyond the stainless steel edging that I used for my kitchen. First off, thanks to Hard to Find House Parts for letting me share [...]
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can’t find flooring of retro multi colored patterns in sheets, ot aqt least pink and tourquoise. Van you sugget? I will have metro shelfs to display my 50′s kitchen collectables
Connie – Go to the tile/flooring store, and look at the Commercial Flooring books from Armstrong, Manning and Congoleum — all the major makers. You can also look online, but sometimes there are even more samples at the store. There are some ‘confetti’ like patterns available including in multi-color pastels, as I recall, but nothing more exciting (like boomerangs) than that. I’ll look in some of my materials over the weekend and even see if I have anything I can post to give you retro ideas, but honestly, I think that Commercial sheet will hold the solution for you – if there is one.
If you can handle linoleum in a single (rather than multicolor) shade, that certainly is available in sheet as well – from either Marmoleum, or Armstrong.
Has anyone found sheet vinyl in colors like Marmoleum? I need to ‘float’ the flooring rather than glue. The Parkett floors are all slate or wood look. (The process is phtographic, I wish they would photograph marmoleum and print it in color onto the sheet vinyl!)
Karen – look at the COMMERCIAL sections of the companies that sell vinyl flooring. Also, could you do rubber? For sure they have designs that look just like linoleum – and the finish is fantastic. Not sure how it’s installed, though.
See my Fast & Easy Flooring page (where I don’t have a lot of sheet products identified, admittedly): http://retrorenovation.com/flooring/
Rubber floor can go right over ceramic tiles, btw.