Recreate yesterday’s 50s style kitchen
Mid Mod Pam on Oct 24 2007 at 12:12 pm | Filed under: countertops, flooring, kitchen
Today: Modern day products to recreate yesterday’s flashback kitchen. My finds include:
- Formica microdot laminate in yellow.
- Wilsonart brushed yellow laminate.
- Sherwin-Williams Pink Flamingo Paint from the Suburban Modern palette.
- Armstrong’s Marmorette (true linoleum) sheet flooring in Green Parrot.
Pretty cool! If this kitchen wouldn’t make you happy - nothing would!
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.