Our 2013 Retro Renovation Color of the Year is Drexel Premier Chapter One Flower Power Rich Lime Green… so heck to the yeah, it was good to hear from reader Rebecca, who recently captured many fantabulous photos of a 1967 time capsule home on a home tour in Palm Desert, California. This house is absolutely dreamy — Lookie that little daffodil lamp in the bathroom — bulbs in the bulbs! And wait until you see the television set.
This lovely home was designer-decorated in the early 1970s — all matchy matchy confection perfection. This collage that Kate made, from some of the photos on Rebecca’s blog Mid-Century Modern Remodel [<–go see ’em] only hints at the loveliness in this space.
When Rebecca emailed me, she wrote:
Hello Pam,
I thought you would get a kick out of this time capsule home I stumbled across in the desert @ Palm Springs Modernism Week. It wasn’t advertised at all and kind of tacked on to a “Designer Home Showcase” tour of newly decorated homes. That green is my favorite color too. I literally gasped when I stepped inside. The second bathroom foil wallpaper reminded me of your office patchwork. Even the colors!
Happy Friday!!!!!Rebecca
Thank you, Rebecca, for thinking to share your luscious discovery here — and thank you, for giving us permission to use some of your photos to make an enticing collage. Readers — head over to Rebecca’s blog to see all the photos. And may the luck o’ the Irish be with you.
tammyCA says
Just viewed all the photos on Rebecca’s blog and oh, my I love this condo so much! It makes me feel happy, light and Springy…and it is oh so California livin’. It looks so immaculate and well preserved…true time capsule. And, how cool that the actual decorator was still around to add to it. I could just stare out that sliding door at that picture perfect mountain view all day. I’m sure I’ll keep going back over to her blog and stare at the photos again and again. 🙂
Teresa says
Good design stands the test of time.
What a lovely property.
The condition is so incredibly pristine I’m thinking this must have been a vacation home.
Thank you for sharing.
Rebecca@MidCenturyModernRemodel says
It was a vacation property which truly helped keep it in perfect condition.
Lauryn says
Wow, nothing says Happy Spring like that home … such a cheerful place! Thank you for sharing, Rebecca, Pam, and Kate!
Annie B. says
Let the sunshine in! Deliriously d’lovely. These rooms looks as if they’d been pulled from the pages of 70’s Architecural Digests.
Jane / MulchMaid says
This is definitely someone’s happy place. Thank you so much, Rebecca, for sharing its delights with us and tipping off Pam so she could share it with RetroRenovators, too. This just might be the sweetest and bounciest home I’ve ever seen!
Jocelyn W. says
My favorite colors are lime green/chartreuse/olive. The decor here is making me you-know-what with envy. I would steal both of the bathrooms’ wallpaper in a heartbeat if I could.
RetroSandie says
What an exciting home! The white and green looks as fresh today as it was in the 70’s! I am astounded to see that everything that originally came into house is still is tip top shape! Right down to the towels and tissue box!!! I’m wowed!!!!! 🙂
Donna Raagas says
This is so fun! A year ago we purchased a house built in 1970. Because it was built before the style explosion that everyone recalls as “The 70’s”, we are renovating “in the spirit of 1968”. I get so much inspiration from this website. Keep the ideas coming!
pam kueber says
Yay! Welcome to commenting, Donna!
Janet in CT says
What a blast from the past! When I graduated from eighth grade in 1965, this green/lime color was all the rage and back then it was called “chartreuse”. I listed it as my favorite color in the yearbrook and I remember having shorts and shirts in this color; I still have one of the shirts! Thanks for the article; it really brought me back!
Jenny A. says
This is the mother of all time-capsule houses. I want to live there, right now. It’s so happy and pretty and gorgeous and fun!!