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 some retro decorating advice and see floors from 1950s homes featuring creatively striped and checkerboard flooring patterns with two or more colors.
Manufacturers of towels, bedspreads and sheets have come up with bright, colorful offerings to whet any women’s decorating appetite.
Here’s a collection of stencils patterns from 1910, inspired by Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Persian and other classical designs.
Wild bedtime! Lion and elephant quilted comforters Our comical quilts can turn a youngster’s bedtime from hassle to heyday! Materials needed Lion and elephant comforters
Collector’s Craft Book: Needlepoint Pillows Needlepoint, favorite hobby of queens, Colonial housewives and every new generation of Americans, adapts beautifully to contemporary colors and modern
Here are six full-color fashion layouts – with 44 different outfits – as published in The Delineator during the summer of 1922!
Fresh field flowers needlepoint design With full-color transfer Charming needlepoint pillow and embroidered picture are both made from the same transfer, opposite. Just cut out,
For more classic fashion from the twenties, check out Vintage Women: Adult Coloring Book #3: Vintage Fashion from the Early 1920s and Vintage Women: Adult
American Heritage: Pieced Patchwork Try your hand at these traditional patterns, pride of America’s past and adaptable for many uses today. By Jean Todd Freeman
This easy-to-make cardboard dollhouse is a project that can grow with your children!
Cheese doily pattern This neat pattern of D’Oyley (doily) is to be worked in ordinary square crochet, and forms a neat and appropriate ornament for
The real death of a cheerleader story (1985) 
20 ways to serve potatoes (1912) 
Hershey’s rich cocoa fudge recipe from the ’70s & ’80s 
8 vintage sixties kitchens with Flair ranges: Pull-out electric stoves and glass oven doors that opened upwards 
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