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Designed in Sweden in 1949 Find them vintage or still buy them new today $$ Brainstorming storage ideas for my home office studio remodel, I have become mildly obsessed with midcentury wall storage systems. So, I was immediately entranced when I saw this photo, above, uploaded by Jan in our new gallery of photos of [...]
I have been continuing my overachiever sofa research. You will recall, I first featured the story, 29 places to buy an affordable midcentury style sofa or couch. Then, I did 29 midcentury style sofa sectionals and modular sofas available today. Now, I am following up with: 12 midcentury or postmodern style round sofas. For this [...]
Over on the Retro Renovation Facebook fan page, a note about Kathleen’s spectator pumps… led Marcia to recall a 1965 dress made from blue and white dotted swiss… which led me to remember that dotted swiss was a most appropriate midcentury curtain fabric. I’m pretty sure that, yes, circa 1960s, dotted swiss was the fabric [...]
Thanks to reader Wendy, who spotted this one. Yes: A three-piece, 1970s vintage sofa from Thayer Coggin that is 18 feet long. It’s for sale right now on ebay, and is located in Canton, Ohio. This is sa-weet. It is a like a seductive python that has squirmed its way into my brain. And, This [...]
In 2011, I did a ton of research and identified 28 places to buy an affordable midcentury modern style sofa. Now, I’m following up with mega-research on midcentury modern style sectionals — and so far I’ve we’ve found 25 29. Sectionals are very popular today, because we all spend a lot of time lounging around the TV. And [...]
John’s basement is a little bit tiki, a little bit rock ‘n roll — it’s pretty fabulous, actually. Now, John needs to finish the room — with some cheap, cheerful, effective and aesthetically pleasing window treatments for his small basement windows. I bet the design of these windows looks familiar to a lot of people; [...]
I am going nuts. Here is what I want for storage in my office craft room space: Base cabinets with open shelving that are 24″ front-to-back (like kitchen cabinets), so that I can add a 25″ deep work surface counter on top. The overall installation needs to be 36″ high – also just like a [...]
Yes: A 1953 knotty pine den with an original wallpapered ceiling. This is so inspiring, it takes my breath away. When they first moved in, Brian & Keri (of the the 1953 retro kitchen remodel) were not thrilled with the wallpaper. But, they waited a while before taking it down — and now they love it. [...]
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