Comments on: A 1950 American Dream House http://retrorenovation.com/2008/11/28/a-1950-american-dream-house/ Products and ideas to remodel your mid century home in authentic vintage style Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:16:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: pam kueber http://retrorenovation.com/2008/11/28/a-1950-american-dream-house/comment-page-1/#comment-40168 pam kueber Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:26:13 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=6720#comment-40168 Hi Maureen, sorry it's taken me a while to answer this question. I don't think that there is an easy answer. Nowadays, some realtors are specializing in vintage properties, including mid-century. I would recommend doing local market research to determine whether there are any such agents - they would be magnets for like-minded buyers and sellers. Unfortunately, though, if the underlying real estate is so valuable that the whole place is going McMansion, I don't know how to fight that -- except by continuing to expose the virtues of existing properties and their features. Good luck. Hi Maureen, sorry it’s taken me a while to answer this question. I don’t think that there is an easy answer. Nowadays, some realtors are specializing in vintage properties, including mid-century. I would recommend doing local market research to determine whether there are any such agents – they would be magnets for like-minded buyers and sellers. Unfortunately, though, if the underlying real estate is so valuable that the whole place is going McMansion, I don’t know how to fight that — except by continuing to expose the virtues of existing properties and their features. Good luck.

]]> By: Maureen Kelly http://retrorenovation.com/2008/11/28/a-1950-american-dream-house/comment-page-1/#comment-40093 Maureen Kelly Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:14:55 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=6720#comment-40093 Pam, I have a 1028 single family with one entire side of the kitchen packed with white steel Youngstown by Mullins cabs up and down, porcelain double drainboard, double sink. The gas stove is a40,s Caloric, roasting oven, backing over, warmer, broiler and another rack. It also has one of the famed pink bathrooms. I have no choice but to sell the house for a long list of reasons. However people looking at it or coming to open houses, all want to ditch this beautiful stuff in favor something new... that leaves me with the problem of how to market this so someome who loves it like I do, will be tempted to buy it. It is located on Long Island near the Teddy Roosevelt summer home in a small village called Locust Valley, 11560. This is an area of horse farms and multimillion dollar homes...that is except my small colonial only around tops 500,000 mostly low due this economy... where do I do to find interesed folk, OHJ doesn't have any RE sales listing.... what can you suggest. Pam, I have a 1028 single family with one entire side of the kitchen packed with white steel Youngstown by Mullins cabs up and down, porcelain double drainboard, double sink. The gas stove is a40,s Caloric, roasting oven, backing over, warmer, broiler and another rack. It also has one of the famed pink bathrooms. I have no choice but to sell the house for a long list of reasons.

However people looking at it or coming to open houses, all want to ditch this beautiful stuff in favor something new…
that leaves me with the problem of how to market this so someome who loves it like I do, will be tempted to buy it.

It is located on Long Island near the Teddy Roosevelt summer home in a small village called Locust Valley, 11560. This is an area of horse farms and multimillion dollar homes…that is except my small colonial only around tops 500,000 mostly low due this economy… where do I do to find interesed folk, OHJ doesn’t have any RE sales listing…. what can you suggest.

]]> By: Elizabeth Mary http://retrorenovation.com/2008/11/28/a-1950-american-dream-house/comment-page-1/#comment-22219 Elizabeth Mary Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:54:13 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=6720#comment-22219 Interesting, especially because I was living in Indiana in the 50's although we did not have a ranch house. I am intriqued by the treatment of the big picture window --- while it has the 3 main windows I am used to seeing, it also has the wood trim across those windows making it 9 panes of glass rather than the 3 usually seen. As for the oddly hung drape ---- maybe they were not used to so much light streaming in and so came up with that "solution". Personally, I can't have too much daylight streaming in. Interesting, especially because I was living in Indiana in the 50′s although we did not have a ranch house. I am intriqued by the treatment of the big picture window — while it has the 3 main windows I am used to seeing, it also has the wood trim across those windows making it 9 panes of glass rather than the 3 usually seen.

As for the oddly hung drape —- maybe they were not used to so much light streaming in and so came up with that “solution”. Personally, I can’t have too much daylight streaming in.

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