Crestview Doors is pretty well known in the world of mid century home renovation for their lovely door lite kits (Update: Crestveiw has discontinued its door lite kits as of July 15, 2013). But, did you know that they have completded additional curb appeal homework for us, and found five more mailboxes that would be just dandy for ranch house, Cape Cod, Colonial or any mid century modern or modern mix? Some of these are made in the U.S.A. — hurray! And, the prices look pretty good. If you really want to wait it out, you may also vintage mailboxes on ebay. And, I’ve even seen them at estate sales (and, ummmm, tried to buy them off the front of the house.) But if you don’t want to fuss and want to get that mailbox in place Right Now, these look quite appropriate for a mid century home exterior. Click here to see the mailboxes over on the Crestview Doors site.
Oh, and if you want to see more, check out this story about 10 other retro and modern mailboxes.
Disclosure: Crestview Doors currently advertises on my site. This is not part of the deal or anything, I was just cruisin’ their site and saw these to add to our arsenal of choices.
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stacey says
I’m currently obsessing over mailboxes. We have the original 1962 mailbox at the end of our drive… it’s shaped like a little ranch house with windows and roof and everything. It’s ridiculous/adorable. I think it was a trend for a while to have a mail box that was a mini version of your house?
pam kueber says
stacey! send me a pic, i gotta see this! retrorenovation [at] gmail [dot] com
stacey says
tomorrow when it’s daylight I certainly will. 🙂
Robyn says
Hi Pam,
Wow! I just love those wall mounted mail boxes. They give me all sorts of ideas since they have the basic retro look and shape but yet they are like a palette to customize in so many mid century ways. I am seeing the fronts embellished with some of those skinny gold starburst designs on like the black ones where they’d stand out nice. Perhaps some pastel colored starbursts or geometric shapes. I’m thinking a black box with a turquoise or pink colored artist palette shape set to the left side with the house numbers starting over the palette and running over onto the box itself. Perhaps the homeowners last name in script? Since some situations would require embellishments would need to be somewhat weatherproof, perhaps some neat automobile ornamentation from Ebay or junk yards. I’m thinking 1950’s or early 60’s Pontiac ornaments with those cool stars that used to be on fenders. (Can you tell that I just LOVE starbursts??)
I remember a mailbox in a town I used to live in that a lady used some pretty costume jewelry to add some sparkle to her mailbox front. It wasn’t overdone or gaudy because she used like one or two old colored rhinestone clip earrings and somehow attached them on either side of her house number plate. For those that might like something a bit more subtle, how about covering the front with a layer of that pierced metal screen that you can still get in silver or gold tone at the big bog stores. I think that is mainly used for steam radiator grilles but it has some neat style when used for decoration. The picture of the one old square box with the gold looking grille design on it brought that idea to mind. The ideas can run from mild to wild but these boxes sure give a great canvas to work with.
Pat says
These are all too small for me, I’m looking for a larger one that will hold small packages. I found one, but haven’t wanted to drop $100 for it!
Aaron says
I’m in no way affiliated with these guys, but I ran across this in my search for a great midcentury-style mailbox, and thought I’d share.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/89300562/mb1-modern-mailbox-with-address-plaque