Open thread: Did you “Listen to your house” before making any changes?
Here’s a fun one for a Friday: As an owner of an old house… did you take the tried and true advice to “listen to..
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Photos of your retro holiday decor — 400+ images already here!
Wow, in the past two holiday seasons, more than 400 readers submitted photos of their decorations — sparkling and twinkling and otherwise happifying your home..
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A vintage Lightolier for my dining room — Finish What You Started Week #5 weigh in — Upload your photos, too
In the past week, I finished two projects that have gone unfinished for more than a year. First, a big deal: We installed a vintage..
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Open thread: Preserving midcentury homes and features — how to know what to keep?
I sent a newsletter yesterday that spotlighted my four favorite time capsule houses from 2011. Reader Joe took a look at the four homes, and mused:..
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“Finish What You Started” Week #4 weigh in
Chelsea gets a Gold Star for finishing laying the tile in her guest bathroom last week — part of our continuing “Finished What You Started”..
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Reader Giveaway: Chalkware mermaids from Cats Like Us
Update: Comments/Entries now closed. Congratulations to winner Cheryl in TX, whose number was chosen by Random Number Generator. Blondes won! Thanks, everyone for playing! What..
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“Finish What You Started” Week #3 weigh in
Yabba dabba do — this sure makes me want to sell my “finished” house and buy a new/old one so that I can get all..
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“Finish What You Started”: Week #2 weigh-in
In week #1 of our project procrastinators group therapy, “it was a beautiful weekend in the Electric City so Kate painted her front door,” she..
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Reader giveaway: Win a Walter Crane Lion & Dove poster from Bradbury & Bradbury
Update: Entries closed. I selected the winner via Random Number Generator: Natalie. She responded… and the poster is on its way to her. Congrats, Natalie,..
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Costly and unexpected expenses from owning a home — share your experiences
I have owned four homes in my life, and I can tell you: The list of surprise expenses never seems to stop. Yes, I have..
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TGIF from KY: What are you doing this weekend?
You know how I mentioned yesterday that I have been in Kentucky for the past two weeks visiting with family and helping with some renovations..
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Open thread: What is your longest-running, unfinished house project? 2010 edition
Once a year around this time, I’m going to repeat the question: What is your longest-running, unfinished house project? I asked the question last May…..
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Congratulations, Leslie & Aaron: #1 favorite residence in Los Angeles — and thanks to all the Retro Renovation readers who voted!
Hip hip hooray for Leslie & Aaron and their “Kramer House” and to all the Retro Renovation readers who may have had a hand in..
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[Entries now closed] We have our winners in our “Love The House You’re In” collage contest
Congratulations to Amy Hill and Cindy Friday — the two readers who won a “Love The House You’re In” collage — featuring them and their..
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Help Sara add retro flair to her country kitchen
Reader Sara is mid-mod-mad, but she is biding her time in a rustic farmhouse while she and her husband finalize their plans to build their..
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Open Thread: Where do you use the color red in your house?
Every month this year our collage-artist-laureate Mel Kolstad is creating a new assemblage that helps us to celebrate the houses that we’re in. (That’s a..
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Yeehaw, mid-century *modern* and *modest*
Wednesday night update: Retro Renovation was one of 6 finalists in Apartment Therapy’s contest to choose the favorite home-design blog of 2009. Voting is now..
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Welcome, Apartment Therapy voters
Welcome to retro-wonderland, Apartment Therapy voters. 🙂 Here at Retro Renovation, a lot of us are “accidental modernists.” We ended up in our (generally) small,..
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Taking requests for 2010
THE PARTY is only getting started here at Retro Renovation. I have a feeling that American design in 2010 is going to be even more..
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Do renovation decisions stress you out?
Maribeth finished her kitchen renovation in such record time that I wondered: Did it stress her out? I can’t make decisions that quickly. Tips to..
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Open thread: What’s your longest running, un-finished house project?
PROCRASTINATION. I am now up to Year Seven in terms of not finishing painting the trim around my living room/dining room window. Really, it’s totally..
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