Our first feature film! Reader Marybeth — who has written several garden posts for the blog — created this text-to-video movie featuring Dick and Midge. Just the latest in our 2011 campaign to: Resist the Greige Nation. Thank you, Marybeth!
Dick and Midge resist the greige nation
Posted by: • February 11, 2011
Our first feature film! Reader Marybeth — who has written several garden posts for the blog — created this text-to-video movie featuring Dick and Midge. Just the latest in our 2011 campaign to: Resist the Greige Nation. Thank you, Marybeth!
Mood board for a retro orange kitchen
Posted by: • February 10, 2011
My 2011 decorating color of the year is: Orange. I love the whole mad mod rainbow of mid mod colors, but for the first “declaration” ever, I chose orange. I guess because: It is my favorite color, and pretty much has been my whole life. On any given day of the week, I collect about 10 photos of retro prettiness, and looking at my recent-photo-library, yes, I’m awash in orange. So, I made this silly mood board built around those fantastic orange 1970s kitchen appliances. Because orange is a color you cannot take too seriously. Sources, starting at 11 p.m. o’clock: Heck yeah there is more →
4 retro bathroom towel designs from Anthropologie, Pottery Barn and Kmart
Posted by: • February 9, 2011
It can be hard to find new-old-stock vintage towels, and if they are not “new”, well, that can be kind of grody. Until recently, most bath towels available in today’s stores were solid colors. But I’ve definitely noticed a trend toward towels with vintage designs. Yay! This is a relatively easy and inexpensive way to push the retro envelope. Above: Anthropologie offers this style reminiscent of vintage Cannon bath towels– which I will dub “sculpted plush jacquard” style. There probably is a *real* term for this style of towel, though: Help welcomed. Heck yeah there is more →
Rock and roll drink coasters made from recycled 45 rpm records
Posted by: • February 8, 2011
Lorie recently wrote me a email “pitching” me her Rock and Roll Coasters, hand made from old 45 rpm records. I liked the look of these and asked if she could send me sample. She did. It came yesterday: Hey, These are Very Cool — I Like! Click on through for Lorie’s story and how she makes these lovely up-cycled coasters. –> Heck yeah there is more →
The average price of premium vintage steel kitchen cabinets in 2010: $39 per cabinet, according to 52PostnBeam analysis
Posted by: • February 7, 2011
What was the average price of a premium vintage steel kitchen cabinet purchased via craigslist in 2010? According to analysis by reader-expert 52PostnBeam aka Helen: $39. As regular readers of our Steel Cabinet Forum know well, Helen has been fiercely pursuing vintage metal cabinets for her own kitchen for the past year. Moveover, in her quest, she has posted hundreds of craigslist ads for all varieties of metal kitchen cabinets onto the Forum. 52PBnJ (as I like to call her) is one tenacious researcher. By this point, she can name virtually any cabinet by sight, and discuss the differences within brands over the years. It is very impressive! Now, Helen has taken it up another notch by cataloguing and analyzing the final listed sales prices of major cabinet sets for the past year. How much should you charge for your vintage steel kitchen cabinets? How much should you pay? The final decision will always be personal. But, read on for 52PnB’s analysis of 29 final sales of “premium” sets last year. –> Heck yeah there is more →
My first press trip – coming up this week
Posted by: • February 6, 2011
My “real career” is in corporate communications, where I got my start in 1984 working for Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. I worked at Ford for 17 years, and for the first 10, I was pretty much focused on publicizing and launching new cars and trucks. As just a few examples: The original Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable… the original Explorer… the Aerostar… the ’94 Mustang… some Escorts in there… the Probe… the new Thunderbird… I’m sure I’m forgetting some biggies. Of course, a pivotal part of new-car and truck launches is: The press trip. You find a location, gather your vehicles and your company experts – and then bring in the journalists. I worked on a lot of these. So now, it amuses me to no end that I will be attending my first press trip, not as organizer/PR person – but as blogger/journalist. My host: Rustoleum. Heck yeah there is more →
How to describe your use furniture on craiglist
Posted by: • February 5, 2011
If in doubt, here’s a handy dandy guide to create your craigslist ads — or to defend yourself against the marketing hyperbole. Used with permission from Lunchbreath: Thank you, Mr. LB, it’s serious work to keep us laughing at ourselves. I spotted this via houseblogger Our Austin Home <–always credit your sources, bloggers, good blogger karma.
Gold mine of new-old-stock tile and accessories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s & 70s — uncovered!
Posted by: • February 4, 2011
You wouldn’t know it, but you know it now: This old school in West Virginia is loaded with boxes and boxes and boxes of new-old-stock ceramic tile and accessories spanning the 1930s through the 1970s. Emily and her son Lawrence discovered the treasure trove of vintage ceramic tile at property auction – boxes and boxes and boxes filled a complete building, “the retro building” – and they are eager to sell it. What color do you need? Looks like they are likely to have it — with NOS ranging from simple pastels…all the way to 1970s groove town, too. Read on for yet another story of NOS wares that were stashed away for decades – and recently uncovered. Emily writes: Heck yeah there is more →
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