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Here’s a slightly larger image of our bedroom-week photo – for the folks who seem to love the wallpaper so much. Sorry… this is a shot from a 50s ad, I can’t say I’ve ever seen fabulous wallpaper like this in person. Isn’t the lacquered side table…and upholstered tufted headboard wonderful. Gosh, today is “blue” day.
I’ve written before about mixing countertop surfaces in your 40s 50s or 60s kitchen. But I recently came across these great photos and thought they would be very helpful. The photos show: How to lower cabinetry to create a place to roll out your pie dough (of course). Put a slab of marble here — [...]
“…Eliminates the final telltale sign of laminate – the brown line.” I am a big believer in the idea that the most significant design shifts tend to come from technological breakthroughs. The advance of laminate kitchen countertops — replacing linoleum and wood in most kitchens in the 1950s — came as a result of the [...]
More today from the Wilsonart laminate history archives. In the 60s, laminate colors got, at one end of the spectrum richer and earthier – and at the other end, pop-art bold. Some of the defining trends from the period, this article says: Color TV was introduced in 1965, bringing us closer in touch with design [...]
“Fake butcher block countertops” are another one of those original vintage house features that I often hear called “hideous” on other websites. (Crikey, how I have come to despise that word — it is overkill, please refrain.) I, on the other hand, not only have “no problem” with butcher block laminate, I am 100% on [...]
Here is another set of products from the past — still available today — with a fascinating history: ‘Memphis’ style laminates designed in 1978 by Ettore Sottsass, “the greatest Italian designer of the last half century.” These laminates are still offered by Abet Laminati. This is not necessarily a name familiar U.S. consumers, but Abet [...]
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French provincial time capsule estate sale, Canton, Ohio 
Midcentury modern meets French Provincial in this PERFECT 1960 time capsule house — 16 photos 
50s bedroom – a very typical bedroom set of Drexel Inspiration 
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The birds on the wallpaper are cranes dancing in a courtship ritual. Hubba hubba
Yup-that is exactly how I wake up in the morning….Turning off my Sunbeam Electric Blanket with a big smile on my face.
Well, now I am on the hunt for something similar. This site is dangerous! It keeps giving me “ideas”.
that wall paper is truly awesome, I’ve seen similar prints on vintage barkcloth but wallpaper WOW!