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20 retro yellow kitchens from yesteryear: Sunny midcentury home decor
These retro yellow kitchens – in all their buttery, warm and sunny splendor – are here for the midcentury home decor enthusiast to appreciate!
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20 vintage pink bathrooms: See some wild bubblegum-era midcentury home decor of the 1950s & 1960s
While not exclusively the domain of the fifties, the popularity of vintage pink bathrooms – including pink toilets, sinks and bathtubs and other home decor – reached its peak during the middle of the century.
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Vintage basement decor from the ’40s & ’50s: See 25 creative remodels
Check out these 12 retro basement remodels, including a ranch room with a Western atmosphere, created with cowhide furniture, a totem pole, and a colorful pattern for the floor copied from a Navajo blanket.
1970s
Get down with these groovy vinyl floors from the ’70s
In the ’70s, modern versions of linoleum made with vinyl were the must-have floors in kitchens, family rooms, and even bathrooms. Take a look back – or look down – here!
1950s
9 colorful mid-century kitchen remodels & retro floorplans from 1954
If you were planning to get a new kitchen for your home in the 1950s, here are nine of the most popular mid-century kitchen remodels and floorplans you might have checked out!
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Vintage style, loud and proud! See 12 bold striped & checkerboard floors from 1950s homes
Get some retro decorating advice and see floors from 1950s homes featuring creatively striped and checkerboard flooring patterns with two or more colors.
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Home decor, 1950s-style: Be generous with color
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!
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15 fabulous examples of fun & fashionable flooring from the fifties
What was flooring from the fifties like? Bold stripes, oversize checkerboard squares, or random arrangements made from vinyl tile or linoleum for the kitchen, bathroom or other areas of the home!
1970s
Glorious vintage designer kitchen remodels (1978)
A kitchen remodel portfolio: Help yourself to the inspired ideas – some big, some little, all of them adaptable – in these kitchen makeovers by talented designers! Retro styles from 1978.
1970s
Super-groovy makeovers to organize your dorm or bedroom (1971)
Are you short on space for storing stereo and records, seating friends? Too-square room, too-full closet? Change your dorm or bedroom into a happy habitat by following these collective tips (ideal for busy students, into-everything activists)!
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A white brick linoleum floor for your pink kitchen? Why not – it was the fifties! (1956)
Do you ever hanker for the charm of old-fashioned brick kitchen floors? How friendly they were, gleaming after their morning scrub! Get a white brick linoleum floor that’s easy to keep clean.
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Mid-century modern carpet styles (1950s)
Christmas will be unforgettable if you give her one of these new broadloom carpet styles. No gift could do more to brighten the heart of a woman who loves her home!
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Retro pink kitchens for you and me: Pink, white & black home decor from the 1950s
The modern fashion in floors What a wonderful, work-saving center the modern kitchen-dining area is! The dining table can be just a step away from
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Vintage Terraflex vinyl asbestos tile in terrazzo colors (1957)
Now! Terraflex vinyl asbestos in beautiful Terrazzo colors! Terraflex Tile and this new J-M Design Book are all you need to create a beautiful floor
1960s
18 Bathrooms: Home decor ideas from 1968
Bathrooms now stress the pleasures rather than the practical functions for which they are designed. Yesterday’s baths were strictly puritanical in-and-out-fast rooms.
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I love carpet: Lucy & Desi Arnaz choose their dream carpet (1955)
From all these beautiful Bigelow carpet styles, celebrities Lucy & Desi Arnaz chose their dream carpet to decorate their home.
1900s
Vintage vacuum cleaners from Hoover
Hoover Suction Sweeper (patented 1908) Hoover for sanitary cleaning (1920) Immaculate rugs are safe playgrounds for the children. Clean thoroughly to protect childhood’s precious
1920s
See inside the ideal American home of the ’20s
Vintage parquet inlaid linoleum in a living room ’20s dining room decor A staircase landing with bedrooms in a vintage 1920s home ’20s home decor: Glorifying
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Vintage home style: Vinyl floor tiles in square patterns (1950s)
Bathroom floor brilliantly inspired by abstract art (1958) Brilliantly inspired by abstract art — this refreshing bathroom floor is “Terrazzo Chip”. . . latest and
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5 clever children’s bedroom decor ideas (1962)
Five wonderful workable playable children’s rooms Rooms where your children can be themselves, work and play and entertain their own friends Our children, boys and
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Kitchen carpet for people who don’t like kitchen carpet (1968)
Viking Kitchen Carpet is for women who don’t believe in kitchen carpet. Because it works… and we can prove it! Want to see what happens
1970s
Bewitching, colorful & lush shag carpets (1972)
Out: Blah colors. In: Bold, exciting colors. Better still, two or three exciting colors mixed together. Mixed, here, in a carpet Lees calls “Bewitching.” Lees has
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How to decorate entrance halls (1958)
How to decorate entrance halls Speaking practically, an entrance hall is a traffic center. Decoratively speaking, it gives guests their first impression of your home.
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Pink & yellow kitchens of the fifties
New kitchen is study in pastel hues If you’re puzzling over a kitchen color scheme, here’s help. The current trend toward pastels in the room
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Vinyl plastic-coated wall and floor coverings (1950)
For a care-free room Wards offer Sandran and Sandura-Wall New vinyl plastic-coated floor and wall coverings. If you’ve dreamed of a kitchen – or bath
1970s
60 kitchen wall & floor brighteners (1974)
60 kitchen wall and floor brighteners Fresh, sunny charm Dazzle up your kitchen with today’s wall and floor coverings. Lively yellows, oranges and blues (below)
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Home fashions from Sears (1972)
The Mixables sheet sets Beautiful every way you mix them: Afraid to put a striped pillowcase on top of a sheet flowing with flowers? Most people
1960s
Shari Lewis & Lambchop pitch carpet (1965)
Positively playproof The unique properties of Polycrest make new Graceleigh carpet by Firth positively playproof…. You said a mouthful, Lampchop… positively playproof and only $8.95 square yard.”
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