Calling all readers in and around Charlotte, North Carolina! I am really busy getting ready for 5 presentations at the Southern Spring Home & Garden Show on Thursday, March 4 and Friday, March 5. In keeping with the theme of the blog, I will be taking attendees on a whirlwind tour of 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s home design — and provide lots of ready-to-go ideas for how to incorporate the best of the period into your home today. And, Mardee Woodward, executive show manager, has asked me to do one presentation on Save The Pink Bathrooms. Tee hee. Our tentacles are out there, people. We are saving the mid mod world — one pink bathroom at at time. See my schedule via the link above or click on the show logo — and let me know if you are coming! Finally, more snaps to Erica Berger, photographer extraordinaire, for another mid mod portrait taken during our photo shoot in November. It’s so fun to play dress up.
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Pam, you look great dressed in MCM attire! Have fun in Charlotte!
Pam, you look fabulous! The photo is perfect, right down to the last detail. Wish I lived closer to Charlotte, bet you will be Most Popular Presenter!
Great cocktail party look for you! May I suggest a gold and pearl Leaf Pin at the shoulder?
Good luck at the Show, Pam! Will you dress in similar attire for the presentations? You look fantastic and I think it would be perfect. I wish you could video tape some of your sessions so we all could see them right here!
I think the clasp on the “said pin” might have snapped…and is now safely tucked away in the putty colored leather clutch on the chair next to you….with the wrist length gloves, peach-y lipstick and pack of Kents in a pearl covered case…I hope you ordered a 16×24 copy of this photo.
You look as if you are right out of Mad Men!
I wanted to pop by and tell how much I love your blog! I love my 1920′s Aladdin home but this blog does make rethink walking away from the 1950′s ranch (with original wood panel kitchen cabinets
) that we were considering! Good luck in Charlotte and lets us know if you are ever coming to Nashville!!
Pam- I agree, you look beautiful & right from the set of Mad Men!
Have fun!
I’m pretty sure my parents had that lamp. The little “knobs” on the tops look correct, as does the yellowing/browning of the fiberglas shades (or at least that’s what I seem to remember them being). I bet it’s been thrown out, damnit.
Go Pam Go!
Good Luck Pam !
Love the photo – You’re so MADMEN !
Gavin-
You’re hilarious…keep it up~
Pam-Your pic is great. Some have “it” and some don’t. You have it!
I wish the Buffalo Home Show would book you. Western New York has pink bathrooms by the score but they are all quickly disappearing as older homes change hands and the new owners decide they need to “update”.
hey, tailfin, after charlotte i am going to make a big pitch to get booked everywhere within driving distance. that includes buffalo! we’ll see…
Wish I could go to that show! Love the glam and fabulous pic.
The editor in me has to point out that actionable means “giving rise to a lawsuit.” I think your ideas will be inspirational, not actionable! Wish you could come to Cali….
Thanks, lizk, for the tip! I changed it to “ready-to-go ideas”!
So, wish I could be there!!
Be sure to give those people at HGTV a what for….for destroying all the mid mod houses and installing granite/stainless.
You go girl!
OMG, I will take you around Charlotte and show you EVERYTHING MCM if you’d let me. I don’t know how I’ll be able to pull off leaving work to come hear you but I’ll be there! Glad to hear that Charlotte is truly catching on to this.
I’m getting ready to move into another MCM ranch. This one has more retro potential than my last. I’m currently working on ordering the perfect cabinet pulls from Rejuvenation (as it doesn’t appear they still have Chevron) but I cannot seem to yet convince my boyfriend (the owner of the house) to do the metal edging on the aqua boomerang Formica counter top that he did agree to!
Can’t wait to meet you in person,
Jennifer
I’m so excited to hear you speak! I own a 1940 bungalow maybe two miles from the site of the show and have been doing tons of research on color and design to ensure that updates honor the home’s history.
Pam — You forgot the pearls! You forgot the pearls! Largest ones strung in center front, gradually getting smaller as the string heads for the clasp (Not sure what this design is called; I’m design illiterate.) Would go great with your MCM costume (and hair!!) Hugs – Steph
P. S. Wish I could make it to N.C., but California is so far away from N.C. (as is nearly everything else, it seems).
I hope I can be there! Friday is a little harder for me work-wise, but I am going to have to double check my schedule. BTW, I am originally from Buffalo and can agree on the multititude of pink bathrooms. I’ve given my niece the savethepinkbathrooms link.
60′s ranch owner!
I’m in Charlotte too! So I’m gonna come see you! I can already feel a cold coming on in March, so work will just have to understand. Hopefully I’ll be able to talk with you in person, but in case I forget, you should look up The Diamond Restaurant while you’re here. A classic that’s been reinvented and is better than ever….I bet you’ll dig their turquoise, black, & gold interior. Wow!
Dang….I just saw the date, that was last year! What a tease
Well, maybe this spring we can expect you down south again?