We haven’t been doing much remodeling lately, and I’ve been neglecting this catagory.
However, I recently ran across these fabulous tiles from Clayhaus Ceramics. I wish I’d known abou them when we picked out bathroom tile for our remodel.
I’m sure most of you know Pam, Retro Renovation – she’s a fanatstic resource for Mid-Century remodeling manufacturers.
And [...]

The first time I heard about Witco was on a discussion on a Mid-Century Facebook group about Tiki art, the name that kept coming up was Witco, with a link to this post on a Tiki Fan board:
My name is Burke Hovde (aka…The Witco Kid on www.tikicentral.com). I’m the son of Ron Hovde, one of [...]

This is a Denver pop-up of a traditional 50′s ranch. Do you like the remodel?

 
The national Trust for Historic Preservation has posted Resources for Repair of Post-war housing. The list seems fairly complete to me…can you all think of others? Would it be helpful to start our own here (for myself, I still think it would be neat to have interior and decorating resources as well. )

Our good friends are remodeling a 1940′s kitchen and found these lovely pulls at VanDyke’s Restorer, but they’re a bit pricey:
Anyone have a resource that might be less expensive?

So, have you heard about Houseblogs? If you blog about your house (or house related stuff) are you on there?
I hadn’t updated my account since I redid the site and converted it ALL to a WordPress blog – so I went in today and updated my info.
Want to know the REALLY sad part? Our “to-do” [...]

Pam posted this on her site, but thought you’d all love to see it. By the way, Sunday July 25th marks the return! YAY!

Oh, and then the dramas with the Mid-Century Ning group. Ning is going to an all paid service. So, I might move the group – I’m looking at alternatives, I’ve never really [...]

Ok, so I may take flack, but yes, we’re taking down the pink plastic tiles in the bathroom, too many are missing or broken and so we’re replacing it all with square black tile. Here’s what we’re planning for a vanity (to the right).
Then we’re going to inset some glass tiles in a stripe around [...]

Well it seems life has dealt us a card and we’re going to remodel our PINK bathroom in the next month. We know the tile has been falling off the shower wall for a while, but finally our plumber has determined that the plumbing for the whole shower has to go. So, it’s a rip [...]

For those of you who don’t read my other blog, my “word of the year” this year is “Focus”. One of the things I want to focus on is fixing the things we have. So, I got the great idea to make a list here and see how many we accomplish:

Fix the plumbing in both [...]