Over at my favorite garden blog — Margaret Roach’s A Way to Garden — it’s Summer Food Fest week. She started yesterday — you GOTTA check out her slide show of vintage corn images from the Library of Congress!
How to date your Vintage Vera textiles
Posted by: • August 4, 2010
Do you want to know the date of your Vintage Vera tea towel, scarf, towel, or tablecloth? Building on my infatuation with Vintage Vera Neumann textiles, I was recently trawling through The Vera Company blog and discovered an excellent post that shows all the Vera marks starting in 1958. Link: How to date your Vintage Vera linens. (Does not include any tips on my #1 favorite method: Dinner and a movie. tee hee.) Above: Vintage Vera tea towel – ripe summer peaches, $27 from paddieridge on etsy.com.
Crossville 4″ hexagon tiles
Posted by: • August 3, 2010
Ever since I did this story about Cindy’s pink bathroom, I have had hexagon floor tiles — especially the larger 4″ x4″ or 4-1/4″ x 4-1/4″ size — on the brain. Smaller hex tiles were popular earlier in the 20th century — the are favorite for Victorian bathroom renovations. But, for mid-century homes, I think that the larger hex floor tiles are more appropriate, if you are going for authenticity. Now I have finally researched them. And my first source up is: the Crossville Savoy 4″ x 4″ hexagon tile. Heck yeah there is more →
A basement shuffleboard for Dave & Sarah
Posted by: • August 2, 2010
What self-respecting Retro Renovator can do without a vinyl tile shuffleboard in their basement. Dave and Sarah show the way: These two industrious homeowners used my tip about shuffleboard tiles still available from Armstrong — and installed one in their fabulous 50s style basement renovation in progress. Dave writes: Heck yeah there is more →
Vintage Lightolier lighting & more MIB madness
Posted by: • August 2, 2010
The Nutone 30″ coppertone range hood — NOS — is pretty rockin’. No exhaust fan but I bet an electrician could install one inside it? Cute ballerina shower curtain from Down Under in this carousel, too. And: Breakfast in bed with Thermos, anyone? Disclosure: Anything that you buy — from these ebay carousels or otherwise – when you click into ebay
Where to find cracked ice laminate
Posted by: • August 1, 2010
Cracked ice laminate seems to have been a very popular choice for vintage dinette table tops, and I hear from readers fairly often asking where they can find it for kitchen counters. Crackle ice laminate is still available from a number of sources online. Heck yeah there is more →
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