Whether you’re renovating a 1920s home or just love the aesthetic of the era, here’s a collection of authentic tile patterns and creative designs that come straight from the late twenties.
These retro yellow kitchens – in all their buttery, warm and sunny splendor – are here for the midcentury home decor enthusiast to appreciate!
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.
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.
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!
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!
Get some retro decorating advice and see floors from 1950s homes featuring creatively striped and checkerboard flooring patterns with two or more colors.
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!
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!
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.
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)!
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.
Just look at the richly-textured patterns in this mid-century modern carpet! And the vintage 3-level pile apparently offered the highlights and shadows in expensive sculptured rugs.
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
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
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.
From all these beautiful Bigelow carpet styles, celebrities Lucy & Desi Arnaz chose their dream carpet to decorate their home.
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
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
Bathroom floor brilliantly inspired by abstract art (1958) Brilliantly inspired by abstract art — this refreshing bathroom floor is “Terrazzo Chip”. . . latest and
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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)
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
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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