woddities: wonderful oddities Archives - Retro Renovation

Retro Renovation

Remodeling, decor and home improvement for mid century and vintage homes

Be-Safe-graphic2.3

Very importantly: Always remember to Be Safe / Renovate Safe!

Nutone Concealed Bathroom Scale — this New Old Stock beauty recesses right...

Vintage revolving concealed toilet paper holder — with ash tray inside!...

Westinghouse Appliance Center — New Old Stock...

Rejuvenaire Electronic Odor Control for the Home — vintage woddity...

Kohler Habitat Masterbath Environmental Enclosure: $20,000 bathroom luxury c. 19...

Is it a range or a dishwasher? Yes, it’s both: the 1954 Universal range + ...

Vintage Masketeers optical sign eyeglasses wall hanging — great graphic ap...

Versa-Tile by Universal Rundle — vitreous china counter top and sink combi...

My vintage lighted display clock from a Geneva kitchen cabinets store...

Five different brands of “relaxation units” — places next to t...

Crane 1937 Neuvogue sink by Henry Dreyfuss: The holy grail of pedestal sinks...

Susan’s vintage wood doors with a sliding six-pane window...

Bassett Colorama bedroom set — featuring 4 interchangeable laminate insert...

Family Hospitality Relaxation Unit — our third design of Relaxation Unit...

Satin Glide Relaxation Unit — a second brand, joining Hall-Mack...

The most adorable vintage kitchen cabinet we’ve ever seen...

Vintage NOS American Standard chrome shower head woddity...

Olsonite glitter toilet seat...

First Partio Cart of the season: Spotted April 12 in Seattle...

Vintage Hall-Mack Extendo-bar towel bar woddity spotted at the NOS hardware stor...

Vintage Flow-Matic single handle bathroom faucet woddity...

Two rare vintage Universal Rundle bathroom faucets (plus a sink)...

Rare & wonderful 1962 Lawndale-Cole kitchen faucet — one of the first...

Tamara’s embossed ceiling from the 1960s — have you seen this before...

Can you guess what this cabinet holds?...

The 1964 GE Americana refrigerator-freezer...

Beauti-Vue woven wood and yarn sunburst clocks — vintage catalog and image...

Dishmaster Princess — in Sunshine Yellow!...

Beautiful Ventrola kitchen exhaust fan — NOS woddity...

Lam-O-Tile — here’s a ‘new” vintage wall tile for our wo...

Vintage Acrylite acrylic panels in fun colors and patterns...

GE refrigerator bar cart made in Italy — il cugino of the Partio Cart?...

First GE Partio Cart of the season — our Retro Renovation official sign of...

Plato made me do it: A 1952 bathroom vanity with an inlaid laminate Greek design...

Our 100th woddity — vintage Carrier Climate Center...

The Mullinaires sing the praises of Youngstown kitchen cabinets, 1953...

Full-room vintage wallpaper murals by The Schmitz-Horning Co....

The Dish Quik dishwasher — our 5th soap+water dishwashing wand...

My sexy ’60s saucepans pots are now in a museum!...

ice water faucet in bathroom

A vintage bathroom “ice water” tap — a chilling mystery!...

Vintage Gibson ‘In Crowd’ mod centerpiece...

Dear John Hollywood Parisian poodle vintage toilet seat...

Rare woddity: 1958 Gerrity Princess kitchen faucet “dishwasher”...

Woddity watch: Hall-Mack “Conceal-a-Roll” — once owned by Manh...

Rare miniature Ling-Temco automatic dishwasher — New Old Stock in original...

Vintage-Westinghouse-stove-DD-74

New Old Stock Westinghouse DD 74 range — discovered after 60 years in a ba...

Glitter wall tile panels...

Wodd wodder woddest: 1966 aqua cast iron kitchen sink with egg-shaped bowls and ...

Two sexy, red, round, sunken 1970s bath tubs — double your pleasure, doubl...

Rare vintage Sears Kenmore range with pivoting doors...

Stending Non Stop sofa from Chicago Palmolive Playboy Building...

Partio Cart hot for the takin’...

vintage-flamingoes

New Old Stock early production Don Featherstone flamingos...

Rare vintage Youngstown Kitchens metal hutch...

Vintage flower power NOS toilet seats tee hee...

Monel — rare and wonderful vintage kitchen sink and counter top material...

NOS 1964 Thermador Electric Griddle ‘n Grill...

NOS Caloric Caddie kitchen wrap dispenser — color designed by Beatrice Wes...

Small shower receptor bathtubs...

Rare 1920s bathroom sink from American Standard...

Vintage Modern Maid built-in toaster...

Admiral-Tele-bar-photo

Greg and Tammy retrofit their vintage Admiral Tele-Bar to hold a 24″ flat ...

1960 countertop-height Hotpoint oven with hideaway fold-down electric range...

That ’70s party: Necklace-style drinking glasses...

Antique fan that’s also a foot stool — vintage Vornado hassock fan...

1967 Vintage Nutone Fire/Intruder Alarm system — New Old Stock woddity...

Rare 1962 Marx metal dollhouse — with a fallout bomb shelter...

“Banjo top” sink — Rare vintage bathroom sink with integrated ...

Krazee Hubs — flower power hubcaps for a Volkwagen Beetle, 1968-1972...

vintage kitchen sink

14 rare vintage kitchen sinks spotted in 6 years of blogging...

Flat Evergleam “Peacock” aluminum Christmas trees — a vintage ...

Woddity watch: Vintage porcelain worktable with sink...

retro-groovy-toaster-woddity

Toaster that toasts “Peace” and “Love”...

Vintage round step stool, New Old Stock, by Senior...

Easylux storage from 1968 — can we find out more about this woddity?...

NOS-pink-Jacuzzi

1964 pink Jacuzzi — New Old Stock, still in the box...

elkay sink with integral light

Vintage Elkay Stainless Steel Kitchen Console with built in fluorescent light...

Rare poppy red stove and refrigerator — original colors from Frigidaire ci...

A Bauer Pottery classic: 8 Chicken of the Sea tuna bakers — NOS — wh...

double bowl steel bathroom sink

Cast iron sink — Rare double-bowl bathroom sink, with hudee...

Soap ‘Tainers — colorful, vintage, NOS soap dishes that hide your so...

a bar made from a trailmobile bus

A vintage bar made from a Trailmobile trailer — this is original, not a to...

Vintage Newport Chesterfield sectional sofa with hideaway spaghetti lamps...

Vintage Kroehler “Do It Yourself Decorating Aid” — spin the wh...

Rare 1964 vintage bathroom sinks and faucets from Truman Newberry house...

Decorative shelf brackets — from the days when “basics” worked...

a kitchen table that transforms into a poker table - the Playdine

The 1950s Daystrom Playdine: A kitchen table that transforms into a poker table...

vintage magic queen kitchen faucet

Vintage Magic Queen kitchen faucet — a major new kitchen history discovery...

built in fold down bathroom scale

Built in bathroom scale that folds down — among the three most collectible...

tub master folding shower door

10 NOS Tub-Master accordian-door shower doors — for a vintage travel trail...

pam kueber's new old stock sunbeam automatic control panel

Brini Maxwell shows us her vintage Sunbeam Automatic Control Panel...

Vintage treasure hunting at Eco Building Bargains, Springfield, Mass....

hang it all vintage barbecue

‘Hang It All’ vertical, flippable, portable barbecue grill – s...

star trek light

Vintage Star Trek light — only 500 made — plus more West Palm Beach ...

Mamie pink 4″x6″ bathroom tiles, Monument Mountain High School, Grea...

Lagardo Tackett stash containers — the complete set of eight...

Are you a “vintage hoarder”? 12 ways to deal when your “blessi...

Westinghouse Appliance Center & Hall-Mack revolving toothbrush holder ̵...

Aztec radiant wall heater, Nutone hideaway record player, 10 flower power lunchb...

retro plastic window shades

Unusual plastic window shades in 1961 midcentury modern bathroom...

Sunbeam Appliance Center

NOS Sunbeam kitchen appliance Automatic Control Panel + 4 other designs I’...

midcentury modern house in decay

Midcentury modern dollhouse: Decay as Art, dead body included...

LaGardo Tackett 1958 egg shaped condom canister "Think"

LaGardo Tackett — 1958 ‘egghead’ condom holder is just one wit...

Fiesta kitchen sink by American Standard, introduced in 1966 or earlier...

General-Electric-Partio-Cart-Brochure

GE Partio Cart — yes, “partio”, not “patio”...

kitchen holder in knotty pine kitchen

Mystery kitchen holder thingie — what is it?...

Is it a room divider? Is it a pole lamp? Is it a display shelf? Yes!...

1960s-swag-light-kit-grape-clusters

Hannah’s 1960s grape cluster swag light kit & a peek inside her mid c...

1954 american standard sink with strange porcelain drainboard design

7 odd & inventive home features from 1954 — like an island type drain...

Vintage Sauna by American...

wagon wheel light with antlers

Wagon wheel light with antlers: The “original” put-a-bulb-in-it...

Strange 1962 bathroom sink...

Vintage range with electric burners on two levels: Woddity...

kitchn handy rotating shelf holders

Vintage kitchen cabinet swing-out shelf storage contraption: What is it?...

A vintage kitchen sink with one square bowl and one round bowl...

vintage ge patio cart

Vintage 1950s GE Patio Cart: Combination barbeque, range and oven...

Youngstown Servi-Center: Super rare metal kitchen cabinet?...

dental sink in a vintage bathroom

“Dental sinks” in mid-century bathrooms...

dovecote in a storybook ranch house

Dovecotes in storybook ranch houses...

Retro Renovation Reader Roundup...

Beautyware Cleanser Cabinet...

1949 pink flamingo decorative tile wall panel from Mosaic Tile Company...

18 rare vintage Hall-Mack bathroom accessories...

Westinghouse Appliance Center...

Tappan push-button plumbing – 1963...

The world’s largest toilet salvage yard...

planter-top-toilet-Eljer

A “planter top” toilet tank lid from Eljer...

A Ling-Temco dishwasher at Peggy’s aunt’s house...

Pink crane mosaic from Mosaic Tile Company...

A recessed GE kitchen or bath fixture – clock, plugs, light...

A 1961 recessed Ling-Temco dishwasher meant to torture Speedway Ron...

Another delicious vintage system by Sunbeam to organize your appliances...

Retro bathroom: Space for your TP and smokes, too, in this Hall-Mack fixture...

Alice lusts after…a 1950s wall-mount dishwasher...

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me…...

BE SAFE / RENOVATE SAFE!
Get informed and be aware about the environmental & safety hazards in old homes, materials and products. #1 RULE: Consult with your own properly licensed professionals. More info: See our Be Safe/Renovate page... EPA asbestos website ... EPA lead website ... U.S.F.A. – fire safety, etc.