A retro pink kitchen for you & me (1955)
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 th... Read more...
Mid-century modern carpet styles (1950s)
Siboney broadloom wall-to-wall carpet (1953)
Siboney broadloom by Bigelow has more "extras" than a newsboy
Just look at the richly-textured patter... Read more...
Lucy & Desi Arnaz choose their dream carpet (1955)
From all these beautiful Bigelows, Lucille and Desi Arnaz chose their dream carpet
BIGELOW has such a wide and wonderful selection of beautiful car... Read more...
Vintage vacuum cleaners from Hoover
Hoover Suction Sweeper (patented 1908)
Hoover for sanitary cleaning (1920)
Immaculate rugs are safe playgrounds for the children. Clean ... Read more...
Vintage kitchens & family rooms with colorful asphalt tile floors (1950s)
It's new and you'll love it! (1957)
The textured look of exciting Random Tones in Kentile asphalt tile!
New flooring development (1955... Read more...
Vintage home style: Vinyl floor tile (1950s)
Bathroom floor brilliantly inspired by abstract art (1958)
Brilliantly inspired by abstract art -- this refreshing bathroom floor is "Terrazzo Chip".... Read more...
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... Read more...
Retro pink bathroom styles of the 1950s
While not exclusively the domain of the fifties, the popularity of pink bathrooms - including pink toilets, sinks and bathtubs - reached its peak during the middle of the century.
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 when we ... Read more...
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 ... Read more...
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 "Bewit... Read more...
White brick linoleum floors for your pink kitchen (1956)
Brick's textured beauty-in carefree linoleum
Do you ever hanker for the charm of old-fashioned brick kitchen floors? How friendly they were, gleaming... Read more...
18 Bathrooms: Home decor ideas from 1968
18 Bathrooms
The best approach to bathrooms, like the best approach to kitchens, is neither clinical nor sterile. Taking hygienic efficiency for gr... Read more...
Home decor, 1959-style: Be generous with color
How to use color
Color is everywhere around you. But nowhere is it more exciting or more important than in your home.
The choices open to you are ... Read more...
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 impress... Read more...
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 b... Read more...
Fabulously fashionable flooring from the 1950s
The modern fashion in floors (1955)
One of the most delightful things about most new homes today is their look of spaciousness. Eliminating partition... Read more...
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 b... Read more...
A variety of vinyl kitchen floors from the 1970s
In the seventies, modern versions of linoleum made with vinyl were the must-have floors in kitchens and family rooms -- and even bathrooms. The most p... Read more...
Home fashions from Sears (1972)
The ads below are from a series that ran in print magazines during 1972 (and some also appeared in 1971), showcasing Sears' latest home styles -- bedl... Read more...
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, Lampc... Read more...
Images of the ideal American home (1922)
Invented in 1860, linoleum flooring was already very popular by the early 1920s, when these full-color (thus, very expensive) advertisements ran in fo... Read more...
