Archive for the 'attic & basement' Category
Mid Mod Pam on Nov 06 2007 | Filed under: attic & basement, bedroom, dining room, kitchen, living room, window treatments
I know that Pottery Barn and the like want you to buy those tabbed draperies, or the ones that simply slide onto decorative polls. But this is definitely not the right answer if you are in a mid century home! You need pinch pleat draperies, and that is that! In addition to looking so much [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Oct 29 2007 | Filed under: attic & basement, furniture, living room
Melinamade’s website pointed me to Krypton Furniture’s retro modern line of furniture including these groovy chairs. At $1,799 each, you can’t call them inexpensive – but if you can swing the cash you know they’d make an incredible statement. Great to mix and match with more traditionally styled furniture in your 50s or 60s rumpus [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Oct 06 2007 | Filed under: attic & basement, bedroom, kitchen, living room
I bought one yard of melinamade.com’s “celestial aqua” barkcloth to make the valance in my kitchen — and the fabric was just awesome. It is really nice and heavy-weight…great “hand”, or feel…and the colors are rich and beautiful. I love it, it makes a huge difference!
In the photos you get to see Melina herself. If [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Oct 05 2007 | Filed under: attic & basement, dining room, living room
This fabric collection from Maharam — called Textiles of the 20th Century — is fabulous! It features vintage design fabrics for upholstery and draperies taken from original design classics from mid century designers (and their early 1900s European forefathers) including:
Gunnar Aagaard Andersen, Anni Albers, Charles and Ray Eames, Alexander Girard, Josef Hoffmann, Arne Jacobsen, [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Oct 04 2007 | Filed under: attic & basement, dining room, furniture, living room
It’s fantastic that you can still get original-design Heywood Wakefield furniture, built new. In 1992 a Miami company bought the rights to the HW furniture line and began producing it to original specifications.
Heywood Wakefield “blonde” furniture was the epitome of 40s and 50s decorating. If you need a sofa - they have several models from [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Oct 03 2007 | Filed under: attic & basement, living room
These are fabulous beyond belief — I am blown away that they still make these great, cone fireplaces! Okay, we’re now into 60s style…but I think one of these Malm Fireplaces will look great on the screen porch we’re planning out back. Alternatively: In the attic, when we get around to finishing off the space [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Oct 01 2007 | Filed under: attic & basement, bathroom, dining room, kitchen, lighting, living room
I’ve had great luck with finding vintage lighting on eBay. I think the prices are the best, and it’s great to have true vintage lighting.
But I also love some of the lighting available from Rejuvenation Lighting, a Portland, Oregon-based company that creates reproductions from vintage stock. I’ve purchased some of their sconces for my bathrooms, [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Apr 03 2006 | Filed under: Inspiration, attic & basement, bathroom, bedroom, dining room, kitchen, living room
My husband and I have found this book to be incomparable, in terms of generating ideas for every aspect of decorating our 1951 ranch. The interiors were all created by interior designers charged with selling Armstrong flooring. As such, they’re “over decorated” — but that’s part of what makes this book so AWESOME. I’ve paged [...]
