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Living the dream in the House of the Future Part II
Posted by: • March 2, 2008
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1948 was a very good year: Awesome retro kitchens and Cary Grant’s Dream House, too! 
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UPDATE (Oct 2011): Click over to –> this story to get an update on all three sources for boomerang laminate. Where to find a retro Formica countertop for a red, black and white kitchen? Pamela recently wrote to ask: Hi! I bought a home a couple of years ago … it’s a 10-year-old FL ranch, [...]
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 [...]
Arborite has two new laminates in their 2011-2012 collection that just popped onto my radar. I haven’t seen these as actual samples yet — I’ll order them this week. Meanwhile, I wanted to put them out there, because I know that many Retro Renovators have been left kind of up a creek since Formica discontinued [...]
These are sure a blast from the past: Glass combination trivets and cutting boards that are installed directly into your kitchen countertop. Yes: with metal rim aka Hudee ring. I think that these built-in cutting boards were all the rage in the 1970s, because there was one in our 1975 countertop, to the left of the sink. I’m not sure [...]
The new crop of laminates suitable for mid-century kitchen countertops continues. Reader Jon gets snaps for spotting this new “Motion” series of laminate from Pionite. Jon writes: Hi Pam, First, I love the site. I’ve been reading it since December when I purchased my teeny tiny 1946 house (originally a summer home) on the shore [...]
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Pam, when Disney decided to remove the “House of the Future”, it was so tough, the wreaking ball just bounced off of it! That makes me both chuckle and wince at the same time. Think of all that hard plastic from the last 50 years, just filling up landfills, never rotting, never degrading. But I heard a while ago that scientists had found a bacteria that loves to eat plastic. Ironic isn’t it, science discovers a near indestructible material so that half a century later science can find a way to destroy it. That’s life in the future for you.