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A 1950s basement ‘village green’ - from Armstrong flooring

Mid Mod Pam on Oct 09 2008 at 8:00 am | Filed under: attic & basement, flooring

It was a wondrous alchemy of industry, technology, peace and prosperity that inspired mid-century homeowners to create fantastic basements like this one.

This is yet another design study from my delicious collection of 1954 Armstrong flooring ads produced by Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. Click the Tag below that says ‘Armstrong floors’ to see the series.

Book pitch…If you like these images, which are chock full of design ideas, there are many more in the anointed retro renovation “bibles”…hours of fun for the whole family, I’m serious!:

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5 Responses to “A 1950s basement ‘village green’ - from Armstrong flooring”

  1. on 10 Oct 2008 at 3:06 pm 1DanaMc

    Wow, I remember my aunt and uncle had that floor in black. It had 2 inset shuffleboards.

    While I can’t find a pic of the floor, here’s the directions on how to install it. The wonders of the internet. http://www.floorexpert.com/armstrong/fpoxpert.nsf/fe91b78a0945a68a85256eba00710742/cff1665e8ef230cf85256ca70067f513?OpenDocument

    Seems like shuffleboard was shown a lot in magazines. Yet, I have never heard anyone, “Wow, we used to love playing shuffleboard!” Still, I think having an Armstrong basement would be fun!

    DanaMc in Chicagoland

  2. on 10 Oct 2008 at 9:17 pm 2Femme1

    What happened to all those accordian/guitar combos playing in indoor gazebos? Would Sally and Billy entertain the family with a rousing rendition of “Lady of Spain”?

    Oh, and is that cart filled with booze? The ‘rents actually might need a little “tuning up” before they can handle the music.

    (I’m really a huge accordian fan—for a long time, I had some bumper stickers on my car: “Pro-accordian—AND I VOTE!” and “Accordians don’t play Lady of Spain. People do.”)

  3. on 10 Oct 2008 at 10:43 pm 3Mid Mod Pam

    Hey Deb aka Femme1, I continue to be on the lookout for images of people playing accordions, recorders and other vintage-y instruments. Those were the days, my friend, those were the days…

  4. on 11 Oct 2008 at 9:41 pm 4Kitschy Kimberly

    I just looked at a house with a shuffleboard basement floor. You can see it in the pics listed here

    http://gniarmls.rapmls.com/scripts/mgrqispi.dll?APPNAME=Gniarmls&PRGNAME=MLSPropertyDetail&ARGUMENTS=-N997904140,-N244150,-N,-A,-N16941494

  5. on 14 Oct 2008 at 8:00 am 5Retro Renovation » Let’s start another movement to: Bring back the basement shuffleboard!

    [...] all the recent talk of shuffleboards, I did a little nosing around, and it turns out that you can still get a vinyl tile shuffleboard [...]

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