If you love the mid-century retro style and want to create that gorgeous, peaceful vintage backyard feel, get 40 of the best patio, deck & porch ideas here.
Practical ideas to help you plan small gardens of your own – a quiet, refreshing area close to your house where you can enjoy the plants and flowers you love!
A Victorian garden party may extend from afternoon into evening, or it may be entirely an evening affair, in which case the lawn and shrubberies are lighted by Japanese lanterns cleverly put about the place.
‘I just bought the only vacation you can keep — a Coleco pool. Would you believe it cost me less than taking the family away for two weeks?”‘
What did the future look like from the ’60s? In this ad series for Motorola, commercial artist Charles Schridde depicted modernist homes of the future – and perfectly captured the era’s sleek style and space-age optimism.
If your family never stays home because there’s nothing to do, check out these ways to pep up your yard or garden. Sometimes the simplest things, as in the play castle here, yields the most imaginative results.
Any little girl who gets this playhouse will see the magical land of make-believe come true right in her own backyard. It’s a real house, with a Dutch front door and hearts and flowers dormers and a white picket fence.
Come take a stroll through these gated gardens, and lose yourself in another era. These photos show how the walled gardens at Gray Gardens in East Hampton, New York looked in the year 1916.
Come take a stroll through these gated gardens, and lose yourself in another era. These photos show how the walled gardens at Gray Gardens in East Hampton, New York looked in the year 1916.
Ideal for displaying plants in any room, the Aladdin Folarium gives plants a healthy indoor environment.
The Biltmore (1900) Whoever has enjoyed the privilege of viewing the beautiful chains of the Blue Ridge — the Great Smoky Mountains spreading for fifty
Our practical dream house: Practical in the sense of low maintenance. Dreamy in the way it realizes the family’s hopes. What a house costs to
The Majestic is an attractive house at all times of the year, but it is additionally so in the summer, because of its beautiful roof garden.
“DDT is good for me-e-e!” The great expectations held for DDT have been realized. During 1946, exhaustive scientific tests have shown that, when properly used,
Crayola Corner: “Growing” fun with crayons (1959) Crayola “family tree.” On shelf paper or a long strip of wrapping paper draw a six-foot “tree-trunk” with
A terrarium is not only easy and fun to put together, it’s a snap to care for. Here’s how you go about it.
While springtime might come a little late in some parts of the country, it tends to show up a little early in Arizona. Here, take a look at what was blooming in Phoenix’s Valley of the Sun in the middle of March, 2014!
Rubbermaid Border Fence. An easy way to make your place look pretty. Rubbermaid Border Fence is flexible, so it will fit around anything. It can’t rust,
Max Factor’s Garden of Christmas Treasures Come gather a bouquet of exciting new gift ideas. All the pleasures of Christmas dressed in rich and ripe California
Bellingrath Gardens: Colorful remembrance of times past by Carolyn Carter The fabled charm of the Old South is a rare commodity. But even in the
Backyard decor: A flower cart This colorful plywood flower cart, which can also be used for serving refreshments out of doors, is an original design
Fortune for a rose A wonderful new variety which brings thirty thousand dollars Is a ravishing pink and crimson tea — one to two hundred
The real death of a cheerleader story (1985) 
30 vintage TV dinners: Fried chicken, turkey, pot roast & other fab frozen food, retro-style 
20 vintage pink bathrooms: See some wild bubblegum-era midcentury home decor of the 1950s & 1960s 
US Army shoulder insignia (1945) 
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