Retro Renovation

Anita has been sucked right into the retro renovation vortex — to our benefit (evil laugh!) — and writes:

Hi Pam - I’m visiting my daughter for the week. Today while she was at work I went to a few antiques stores looking for nothing in particular. I stumbled across an entire unused case of vintage [...]

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Reader Portland Laura alerted me to these great, new flooring choices. Streaky 12″x12″ vinyl tile from Congoleum.
Hurray! More, true streaky choices to supplement my previous only favorite, Azrock Cortina Autumn Haze. Thank you, Laura!
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“Retro flooring” is one of the top search terms for people coming to this blog. So, a couple of weeks ago I went hunting at the tile and floor shop — and found a few new flooring alternatives to share. This is my #1 favorite among them — a vinyl sheet flooring from Armstrong that [...]

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I am so excited - I have not one… not two…but 39 postwar brochures, magazines, pamphlets and more in hand and will be featuring lots of great new material for the blog in coming weeks.
How’s this for a start? An utterly groovy 1956 basement for lounging all weekend long. The decor is just spectacularly [...]

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Cloude.com Connie asks about sheet flooring to go with a pink and turquoise kitchen. Something jazzy and colorful.
Hmmm. Not much online but I found these. Actually, I found some very interesting designs from Tarkett — go to their “Design” section and take a look.

Update: Atomic Addiction Brian asks for the url — and of [...]

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With so much focus these days on hardwood, tile, cork and here, of course - VCT - flooring, it’s easy to forget that in postwar homes, carpet was very desirable.
In our 1951 colonial-ranch, the long step-down living room had (1975-era) carpet, with plywood underneath. Okay, we tore it out and replaced it with beautiful Berkshires [...]

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As I see and learn more about home design in the postwar period, I seem to be getting more liberal in my views. That is, stuff that used to disgust me, I find, well….actually pleasing.
Take vinyl sheet flooring. In all the houses I remember living in, from 1971 on, we absolutely had vinyl flooring. [...]

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