Retro Renovation

I heard from Ohio Catherine recently - remember her adorable ranch…and all her Drexel furniture? Catherine has continued to work on her vintage steel Youngstown kitchen — pulling together the extra pieces she needs — as well as her pink bathroom — including checking out Bradbury & Bradbury wallpaper to go-with:
hey pam!
i got a few [...]

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Writing this blog gives me a good excuse to troll around the internet for hours on end. One day I found this. Wallpaper that you can color in with a crayon. Not something you’d have seen in the 50s, of course, although by the 60s you started seeing wacky design concepts like this. And of [...]

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At some point this year, there will be a quiz, so please pay attention. Now what was my sole New Year’s resolution? To rid all retro renovators of any latent fear of wallpaper, and embrace this most wonderful of decorative gifts, of course!
In the continuing hunt to help Sebastian, Femme1 also found this site, hannahstreasures.com. [...]

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In searching for more wallpaper choices for Sebastian and his yellow and black 1955 bathroom, Femme1 has found an incredible stash on a website in Sweden. In the 1950-1965 section, there are 180 different styles alone, including many in multiple roles!

Hi again, Pam!
I was looking around for wallpaper for the post about Sebastien’s bathroom (what [...]

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My one and only new year’s resolution: To ensure that all retro renovation readers overcome any possible latent fear of…. Wallpaper. As the advertising above so clearly states, miracles happen when you add wallpaper to your decorating mix!
Case in point: My kitchen. Clearly, to pull everything together … to take the kitchen over the [...]

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Now doesn’t this make you want to be 10 again - when no one questions why you would want a bedroom that is sweet sweet sweet?
The wallpaper is Lily of the Valley by Thibaut. I also love it in the yellow. This is so perfectly vintage 40s, 50s — even 60s!

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