1960s
Rainbow cake recipe with 5 layers of fluffy whipped Jello (1962)
Five flavors of whipped gelatin form this colorful, spectacular dessert: a rainbow ‘cake’ – an eye-catching red, pink, orange, green and purple layered dessert recipe!
Five flavors of whipped gelatin form this colorful, spectacular dessert: a rainbow ‘cake’ – an eye-catching red, pink, orange, green and purple layered dessert recipe!
See several sets of authentic Victorian house paint color sample cards, showing how people back in the 1800s decorated their home exteriors!
Tilted rainbow striped jello form a color spectrum that delights the eye as well as the palate. Prepare several fruit flavors of jello for this fun dessert!
Remember that little toy from the 70s where you pressed on the back with your finger and it changed colors? Find out about Space Fidgits here.
Here’s some bright and bold decor for some colorful ’40s bathrooms – including toilets of colored porcelain and bold wall tiles.
Ever wondered what home redecorating was like back in the early 1900s? Here, see some popular Edwardian wallpaper styles and home decor color combinations!
Here’s a retro jelly bean carousel cake that’s cute and creative for a child’s birthday. Anyone who loves jelly beans (doesn’t everyone?) will love it.
Want to make natural Easter egg dyes the old-fashioned way? Find out how to use roots, berries, herbs and vegetables to color eggs for a vintage-style celebration.
In the ’70s, the popular choice was shag carpet – with bouncier colors and more interesting textures and originality in designs than ever before.
This cute Jell-O Jingle Jells recipe features bells cut out of Jello (with a cookie cutter) and served with flaked or riced Jello and whipped cream.
Here’s a look back at some popular vintage Christmas lights, along with several old-fashioned examples from the ’40s, ’50s & ’60s of this kind of warm and wonderful holiday decor.
Remember these retro cups so popular years ago? Colorama, Heller’s vintage “Colorized” aluminum tumblers, were beloved for as being unbreakable, lightweight, inviting to use and smartly designed.
In the midcentury bathrooms of the ’50s, the look of white, stark home decor was quickly disappearing. In its wake was a trend toward colorful designs. Take a look!
This zesty purple Jell-o poke cake has stripes of flavor from a tangy blackberry gelatin! Not feeling so purple? You can swap in any other flavor of Jello to make this cake recipe all your own.
Crown Jewel Dessert as a mold, a pie, and a spring-form pan dessert! Also known as Broken Window Glass Cake, this easy dessert fits busy schedules.
Even a white Christmas should have a rainbow, so here’s how to make a vintage holiday dessert: classic Christmas Rainbow Poke Cake!
Colorful retro kitchens from the ’60s, when it was an exciting new trend in appliances – an idea that’s been growing ever since the first tame departure from clinical white to pale pastels and subdued browns.
Get colorful classic Christmas cookies for treats like stained glass cookies, Merry Maker cookies, peppermint pinwheels, Christmas bell and tree cookies, ribbon Christmas cookies, pastel pretties & more recipes.
Color is everywhere around you. But nowhere is it more exciting or more important than in your home! Here’s how you can be soothingly subtle or bold and bright, how to get vibrant accents and how to be monochromatic. Ideas to make your whole house sing with color!
Mood rings were incredibly popular pieces of jewelry in the mid-1970s. – call it a colorful fad. So do the rings actually work? What do the mood ring colors mean? Find out here!
What will you find at the end of the rainbow? More smiles than ever. Here’s an easy recipe for a fun and fruity rainbow poke cake you can make with your favorite Jell-o flavors!
Early in the 20th century, there was an interesting development in American home life — people started moving from the city out to the suburban districts and small towns. See some classic All-American suburban houses from that era here!
Bold, rich coloring for houses of the Victorian era The day when nearly every building was painted white, and window blinds green, has passed away.
The most important things that make home decorating successful are beauty of color, color in relation to light, color in gradation and masses, appropriateness, and harmony between wall coverings and furnishings.
Lollipop cookie recipe Ingredients 1 cup (2 sticks) Challenge Butter, softened 1-1/2 cups firmly packed brown sugar 2 eggs 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2
If you want to make a tiny bathroom vibrant and colorful, here are some retro ’70s powder rooms for a little vintage inspiration!
Use your favorite fruit juice and create frosty rainbow pies with a light sherbet-like filling frozen in a light and flaky pie crust shell.
America… show your colors! Pick paint as your best color buy When the budget doesn’t allow new furniture or even upholstery for the old sofa,
Easy color cookie recipe with m&m’s! Happiest new cookie idea in years! Only Crisco and m&m’s Plain Chocolate Candies offer you this delicious new cookie. Kids
Pastel sugar cookies take just four ingredients — and one dough makes five different flavors. Refrigerate, slice, and bake anytime!
‘The picture was thrown on the screen, and there was the exact shade of hair and eyes, the true flesh tints it was almost spooky, even a little string of pink beads about my neck, why, there they were just as pink as could be!’
Warm colors are best for living room by Lynn Elson Fashions in color change every year on the home decorating scene, but personal tastes remain
Say it with a Cookiegram Cake Mate gives you all the tips you need to put your thoughts in icing. Campaign cookies, exam cookies, apology cookies,
Scotch Plastic Tape: It’s like a can of paint on a roll It’s like a can of paint on a roll! The glossy clear color
If you loved the bright and bold ’70s sheets that were so popular a few decades ago, check these out and see which ones remind you of home.
Maybelline Long-Wearing Nail Color ad (1985) Revlon Nail Enamel (1981) Cutex Nail Blush magazine advertisement (1982) Now Cutex invents Nail Blush. It’s a super-gleamy
Kohler Originals Lavatories in a bold array of flower garden colors. Kohler Endurables There are products designed to wear out. And there is that which
The girl who dresses in one color saves money The monotone girl is well-known. Sometimes she is effective, occasionally monotonous. All depends upon the girl’s
The real death of a cheerleader story (1985) 
47 dangerous old playgrounds that our great-grandparents somehow survived 
Tour the ultimate mid-century modern house: The Scholz Mark 58 Home of the Year 
Hershey’s rich cocoa fudge recipe from the ’70s & ’80s 
130 vintage ’50s house plans used to build millions of mid-century homes we still live in today Want to remember to remember? Our weekly newsletter shows you the latest vintage, old-fashioned & historic stuff that we have published or refreshed during the past seven days. Sign up here.
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