Update: Random number picked; winner has been sent an email; comments closed. Thanks, everyone, for playing. Remember — new contest every month! Kara was the winner of our January contest to win a Love The House You’re In Collage — and that’s her mid-century cutie, above — as immortalized by collage artist extraordinaire Mel Kolstad. To win our February contest, all you have to do is:
Leave a Comment answering the question, “What year was your house built?” If you want to leave a tidbit on its style, that would be cool, too. Please read all the rules here before entering, they all apply.
This month’s contest rewards DAILY readers — I’ll pick a winner late Friday night. Yay on all of you who check in daily!
“I just love Kara’s house! She was very thorough – she included “before” photos as well and you can see how beautiful her house is now! I used real wood veneer for the fence and wood grain paper for the door. The tree was done using tiny punched circles and the sky is actually handmade paper. I did the house in a paper I found that was the PERFECT color!”
Thanks, Mel! Read more about her work on her cool blog, Ephemeraology.
Andrew says
Mine was built in 1957, a cape cod style.
The Atomic Mom says
My house was built in 1949, and is a mid-century styled duplex. We live in Los Alamos, NM, and it was part of the Army Corps of Engineer’s mission to built permanent housing for the Manhattan Project families as they became permanent residents of the Secret City. (A funny fact, if you were born in Los Alamos during the war your birth certificate reads that you were born in POBox 1336, Santa Fe, NM, not Los Alamos, because that didn’t exist from 1943-45). If you ever come to Los Alamos, you will see street after street of my home, a Group 11 Duplex, Group 15 single family homes and Westerns and Modified Westerns, which ware all mid-century modern in their design inside and out. We used to have a steel kitchen, but the previous owners ripped that out for generic home depot stock cabinets, which seriously makes me cry big huge tears. One day though, one day, we’ll find steel cabinets and put it all back the way it was. 🙂
pam kueber says
I just have to say: Does’t this house look pritty on the homepage of my blog?? 🙂
Mel says
AWWW!!!! Thanks Pam! 😀
Ruth Margolis-Bowman says
My house was built in 1962, just like me! I only hope that I didn’t need the facelift that the house did, it was rather frozen in time (about 1978).
Natalie @ Chadwell Chronicles says
I read daily! I look forward to it! =)
Our house was built in 1960.
Suzanne Sims says
My house was built in 1956. I believe it is a “suburban ranch” style home. I just moved in and I love it! The kitchen is vintage.
Alison Scanlan says
My home was built in 1927–not exactly MID MOD, but I find so much useful information on this site. My home is a Montgomery Ward “Kenwood” model kit home. My little home still retains much of the original details, including a beautiful telephone stand in the stairwell.
Sharon Potts says
I have a kit house also. Aren’t they great??? Mine is an Alladin and I found the original brochure on ebay that has ll the homes of that year listed as well as colors, room diagrams, materials, etc. A terrific resource.
Alison Scanlan says
I do love kit homes! My town has many kit homes because it is an old railroad town. I wish that our city would do more to promote the kit home “communities.”
Kristine says
My house was built in 1990, and we’re doing the best we can to turn our late-century house into mid-century inside!
Sharon Potts says
My 1925 bungalow was covered in yellow aluminum siding when we looked at it. And bought it anyway! 21 years later we finally had the siding removed to reveal the shake shingles buried underneath for 50 years. Surprisingly, they were in very good shape and only small sections had to be replaced. After it was uncovered, we discovered our house was one of about 6 in the neighborhood that was an Alladin Kit house.
Now it is painted in very bungalow colors (chosen from the original brochure of colors) and I swell with pride every time I approach it. We went from being embarrassed by our home to having it be the cutest on our entire street!
Kelly Cornacchia says
My house was built in 1956. Here’s a link to the original sales brochure…I live in The Vermont model although mine does not have the promised garage or carport. I guess the original owners thought cars were fads!
http://www.oakleighforest.com/histhtm/brochur1.html
Charlotte says
Kelly, that brochure is great!
Shelly Cahill says
What a fantastic treasure to have the original brochure…especially quaint with the spelling/grammatical errors! Thanks for posting it for all of us to enjoy.
Kelly Cornacchia says
I’m glad you liked the brochure. It’s kind of shocking how many errors made it in! We are fortunate to still have some original owners in the neighborhood and one of them graciously provided the brochure to our civic association’s webmaster. If you click the link to our association’s page below, you can see the same spot where the sign is, as it looks today.
http://www.oakleighforest.com/index.html