I got to thinking today about what has made our house more of a 50’s home. I think part of the challenge of living in any period house is to try to keep within the time, but to update it and make it your own. Our furniture is partially 50’s and partially – well, “dorm [...]
I won’t take credit for these…a friend of mine sent them in a joke email:
There are more on my flickr site! Enjoy the giggle!
I can hear Pam screaming in argument, but I really think one of the issues with incorporating TRUE 1950’s decorating styles into our lives today is that the colors were SO bright. In their defense, I don’t even think these two rooms are really that bad. The bottom one is supposed to be a little [...]
Over at RetroRenovation, my Mother’s spice rack showed up:
Pam calls this Kromex (brand) “pink aluminum”. Very cool!
I spent the day surfing around and finding neat blogs, etc. I signed up for Technorati Profile, and added the code in my sidebar, so grab that if it’s easy for you.
It’s amazing how lost you can get in [...]
We had a lovely Holiday and New Year’s….without a faucet in the kitchen. Sigh. That’s ok, we had good friends over and had a wonderful fondue! A 3 year New Year tradition…very fun!
I found someone to solder the break on the old sink. We put it in and as Rex tightened it down….PAFF! Broke! Again. [...]
This was spotted over on Boing Boing, but I love this idea of
custom gingerbread house to look like your home! And it’s midcentury (whoopee!)
I think I like this one even better than the modern one I posted before! There’s more to the kitchen sink saga but I’ll post it later today. Sigh, the [...]
