• At Our Arts and Crafts Home, Mark and Cara are enjoying a warmer interior after Dad made them custom storm windows. It is my understanding that adding storm windows is much more cost- and environmentally-effective than replacement windows. (See our big discussion about whether to install replacement windows – including 132 comments.)
• Eartha Kitsch is always a hoot and a half. I love her recent estate sale finds, which include “We Missed You at Church” cards … a granny shirt “I fell in love with its classic old lady styling,” Eartha says…  and a pregnant granny figurine “You and your once more for old time’s sake,” it says. Grannies are the new hotties.
• More on church: Even the churches are MCM masterpieces in that epicenter of all MCM greatness, St. Louis. The ever-prolific Mr. Modtomic ogles the Catholic Education Center.

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Nicole says:

We just bought our house and are working on some renovations, but keeping it in line with the 1958 feel. 

We bought it from the original owners, and have all of the plans, can you believe it?! We were looking for a house with a view – plus open floor plan.

It was designed by Ralph Anderson, a famous Mid Century Modern architect in Seattle. We had lived in a bungalow and a tudor (both rehabs)…  We walked in and we fell in LOVE.  We had to have this house..

I’ve added photos of the house, and one of the kitchen photo is an AWESOME one of the ventahood! 

We are not, unfortunately, (able to keep the kitchen) — some of it had water damage. But we are keeping the cabinets in the garage, and ordered the closest looking ones we could!

We have vintage chevron pulls that we got at the Re-Store and are keeping the sweet red lights. Plus, other vintage lights. The Ventahood (is for sale here): http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/app/2794818079.html

And the Oven (is for sale here): http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/app/2825017337.html

Let me know if you need anything else, and am thrilled to have you feature it!

It is a Beauty!!!

Thank you so much, Nicole, for sharing these photos. And thanks also to ImageArts Photography for making these photos available and giving me permission to use them here on the blog for our archive-of-great-houses; you do gorgeous work.

Now. Nicole: “It is a Beauty!!!” — even with three exclamation points and a happy face — seems like… the understatement of the year. Ummm, will you adopt me? Do I spy with my little eye: sliding doors in the foyer wallpapered with metallic wallpaper? DAGTH. I also adore the Arabesque tiles in sunroom (?) — Nicole says they are resilient. And what’s that wood on the back wall of the kitchen behind the dinette. As the New York Times said, you know we have an “…inexhaustible enthusiasm for the minutiae of home décor…”

I am so happy you are renovating in harmony with the home’s original style. Also, props for working to find a new home for the vintage pieces. Now that we have the “before” photos of your kitchen, we will be eagerly waiting for the “afters” to come soon. No pressure, dear.

One more thought, readers: When we talked recently about creating “timeless kitchens” the recommendation to do “medium-tone wood cabinets” came up. Here’s a great example of what I think, is a great piece of advice.

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Often use and age have diminished or worn away the laminents on the motor’s rotor assembly. Oil also often migrates to contact parts too. The result is a burning or oily smell when the item is powered up.

At the same time Gary offered up a beautiful alternative for a stand mixer made today in a rainbow of retro colors:

Martha Stewart brought back great vintage kitchen colors like turquoise, jade and pink in her Artisan 325-watt KitchenAid mixer line. Everything is new, looks great and runs without issue.

Yup, the Kitchen Artisan Series 5-Quart Mixer (affiliate link) is one nice looking hunka hunka steel.

It’s available in 24 retro colors — surely one to match your retro kitchen style.  The very firs image shown is Cobalt — a doppelganger for my 2012 Color of the Year, Bitossi Rimini Blu. Such a regal color. But oh my, all these colors — and there are more, you can see them all on Amazon (affiliate link)   – are gorgeous. Valentine’s Day, anyone?

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