Retro Renovation

The little accents you use on the outside of your house can be very impactful ”jewelry.” I love these simple but very classic house numbers from Rejuvenation Lighting.
In prior posts I’ve written how rustic, black wrought iron can be perfect to trim out postwar ranch, Cape and colonial homes.
Colonial and Capes=Pilgrims. Ranch=Wild West. Both mean: Blacksmiths hammering [...]

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Adding the right exterior lighting to your 40s 50s or 60s ranch, Cape or colonial can make all the difference in the world — like the perfect jewelry on a little black dress. I’ve written previously about a few options from Rejuvenation Lighting. But for colonial style lighting similar to what was so very prevalent [...]

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I was poking around the internet last night, and bounced right into this great new company, Crestview Doors, based in Austin, Texas.
A very cool story of a couple working to renovate their mid century home. They couldn’t find the right front door ala one down the street - so they started their own company.
Aren’t these [...]

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Rejuvenation Lighting offers two styles of porch lighting that could be a good fit for your retro renovation – whether it’s ultramodern or modern-with-that-colonial touch, as many 50s and 60s homes were.My home is of this latter colonial/modern variety and I used exterior lighting that’s similar to Rejuvenation’s black cast iron lantern model shown here, [...]

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My brick, ranch-style home has a colonial feel, especially on the exterior. I am dressing it up with black-iron hardware and lighting — and it looks terrific.
In fact, if you look at a lot of the classic “California ranches” you see these kinds of colonial touches, with the black forged iron really making the wood [...]

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