I took a couple of days off (to catch up on work) and now I’m back…here’s the #6 detail…tile floors in 50’s homes. I saw this photo on the the 50’s interior design flickr group from Miss Retro Modern’s post to the group.
This reminded me that I’ve never posted pictures of our basement floor…which I [...]
It’s a bit hard to see, but we have cool curved walls into each of the windows and terra cotta window sills (I think they’re terra cotta). Unfortunately we also have plastic storm windows, bleck! However, they’re better than no storm windos at all!
On the subject of windows, we’re taking off the bars on our [...]
My friend over at Ranch Handy posted about this Kitchen (not hers) quite some time ago, but I’m not sure she ever found these handles…aren’t they cool?
I also LOVE the knotty pine cabinet doors. We had a ton of this in our old house – knotty pine built ins and we loved it. Even when [...]
This is our doorbell. We love it. Very cool and very original. Nothing amazing sound-wise, but I think the style is awesome.
Again, this is an example of things that aren’t really “atomic” but are 50’s. “Normal” house things. I like atomic, but frankly most of it doesnt’ really “fit” into our house – I love [...]
I posted this a long time ago, but I think it got lost….like it has in these bushes. I love this light and the numbers that go with it. I also totally adore the trim color on this house (actually it’s a duplex in our neighborhood). Not SURE it’s vintage 50’s (anyone care to [...]
This fantastic room is curtousy of Ms Atomic on Flickr (there are other VERY cool photos on her flickr account…go check them out! So, this is not really an idea of mine, rather an idea from my flickr group about midcentury interior design. Rather than giving you one idea….there are 230 of them! Enjoy! (and [...]