My miniseries on the finds at the ReStore Habitat for Humanity on N. Wendover in Charlotte, North Carolina, continues. Hey, where else on the web can you find a blogger who gleefully leads with used toilets on her highest-traffic day of the week. Faithful readers will know, there is nothing I like better than a beautiful mid-century toilet. That said, I am not up on my brands and styles these days. Scathing Jane, can you tell me about the one on the right, with the squarish looking everything. Is that an American Standard Pillow Top or something like that? I like it a lot alot. Continue for 24 more photos. Heck yeah there is more →
Habitat for Humanity ReStore, Charlotte, NC: Part II
Posted by: • March 15, 2010
ReStore Habitat for Humanity, Charlotte, N.C.: Mom and I do some retro recon
Posted by: • March 14, 2010
The ReStore Habitat for Humanity in Charlotte is one groovin’ place, jam-packed with great stuff to update your home inexpensively. On my recent trip to speak at the home show in Charlotte, I visited the ReStore to see what the market was like down South. My mom was along with me. Oh my, there are 19 photos to follow — the market was good. 
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Flickr favorites — today’s digital Rorschach test?
Posted by: • March 13, 2010
I bet a psychiatrist could take a look at my flickr favorites at any given time and issue a diagnosis. Forget inkblots, our flickr favorites are today’s new digital Rorschach test. I have 1,872 images in my favorites list — on flickr, these are photos from other people that you see and tag as ones that particularly speak to you. You can then go back and revel in them whenever you want. Great cheap fun. Back when I started on flickr, my favorites were all pretty much house interiors — below is my first-ever favorites accumulation from 2+ years ago and still there on like page 52: Heck yeah there is more →
3 shower pans in enameled cast iron from Kohler
Posted by: • March 12, 2010
Here are three fantastic additions to our choices for bathroom renovations: Enameled, cast-iron shower receptors (aka shower pans or shower bases) from Kohler. I am kind of crying, because I looked for these when I did my own bathroom renovations seven years ago and swear I couldn’t find them. I used Swanstone (a saga is involved), which are okay, but golly I much would have preferred enameled cast iron. I think it is much easier to keep clean — and that glossy finish, yummm. Heck yeah there is more →
Whiskey barrel furniture set – 11 pieces, $250
Posted by: • March 12, 2010
I need this whiskey barrel furniture set bad. Very. Bad. Hey, they match my blog perfectly. Just $250 — for 11 pieces — a game table, five chairs, bar and three barstools. Isn’t that 10 pieces? Oh who cares. AAAAAAAAAARGH. Get it from: Craiglist. via RetroCoMo. And be sure to revisit this humongous set, posted two years ago, also in Missouri. I need to move to Missouri.
Retro Renovation readers’ Charlotte road trip
Posted by: • March 11, 2010
I have a fancy picture of this group — Retro Renovation readers who got together between my talks at the Southern Spring Home & Garden Show in Charlotte last Friday. But I like this photo better. Because you all know how we feel kind of … *unique*? Like no one quite understands our excess of enthusiasm for renovating our mid-century modern and modest homes? Well, the tribe came together for real, here. That’s us all sitting around talking about cabinets and kitchens and landscaping and trials and tribulations. Oh my, we could have gone on forever. Heck yeah there is more →
Mad Men Barbie line: Don, Betty, Roger & Joan
Posted by: • March 10, 2010
You know it had to happen — Mattel is launching a new line of Barbies replicating four of the stars of Mad Men: Betty and Don Draper, Joan Holloway & Roger Sterling. The dolls will go on sale for $74.95 in July. Watch for Season 3 of Mad Men on DVD on March 23. The company’s complete news release follows.
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Carpet runner for the oak stairs — and Astro
Posted by: • March 10, 2010
Just so’s you know, there are those days where I sacrifice aesthetics for: functionality. Six or seven years ago we pulled the aged blue plush carpet off the stairs to the basement and had the stairs refinished. Oh, the gleaming oak treads were sooooo pretty. We use the basement every day — our TV and two offices are down there, so this is heavily used staircase. Ummm, I only just about killed myself slipping on the oak three or four times a year, but it was my calculated risk in the name of beauty. Then enter: Astro the retro wonder dog. Little mister only had to slip-slide down the the stairs twice before we realized this situation would no longer work. We started carrying Astro up and down the stairs, and I went looking for carpet. Heck yeah there is more →
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