50s bedroom - a very typical bedroom set from Drexel
Mid Mod Pam on Mar 13 2008 at 10:49 am | Filed under: bedroom
I have a lot of great advertising for 50s bedroom sets, and thought I’d start a new run with this one, a 1952 boxy blonde set from Drexel. It’s so nice to look at 50s furniture other than Heywood-Wakefield, although I’m not knocking it. Point is, there was a lot of really beautiful, well-made furniture from the period. And from my experience, big items like bedroom sets and dining rooms are relatively easy to pick up, relatively inexpensively. (Like, how many bedroom and dining sets do you need? There is a finite market - unlike that for collectibles.)
Another thing somewhat surprising as I continue to examine materials of the period with you, is the preponderance of chartreuse, matched with other strong colors like the blue here. Pinks and turquoise are so associated with the period, but golly gee, I seem to see lots of chartreuse, too. It’s a color that’s really grown on me…hmmm, where can I use it.
Last point on this image - note how the corner windows are unified with the pinch pleat semi-sheers. Nicely done.
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I like it! Even right down to the green shag carpeting too
That color combination is interesting to me, especially for that period. I love seeing these old ads. Too fun!
Hi,
It’s been my experience that the most creative people are the least afraid to use the colors orange and green. I’m not saying every home should have those colors (yikes!), but this IS a small thing I’ve seen repeatedly. I have no explanation for it.
Ronn Ives
This bedroom is so similar to the bedroom my sister and I shared in the 60s and 70s. We had a blonde twin bed set with two dressers that my grandma had purchased in the 50s when a hotel went out of business. (It’s since been passed on to another relative for their visiting grandkids to use). We had colors similar to the room shown, but reversed — green walls and solid blue bedspreads and rugs. Instead of a lamp on a bedside table, we had little reading lamps that hooked to the tops of our headboards. I can’t remember the curtains — my mom had white sheers with pleated drapes in the living and dining rooms, but I think she just put sheers in all of the bedrooms. As this picture shows, it’s a nice look.