Here’s looking forward (and looking Retro) into the New Year! We do fondue for New Year’s – do you have a Retro New Year Tradition?
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I found this fabulous resource for retro books on ebay. It’s not often I give folks a plug, but if you’re like me and consider these books gems, you’ll love looking through BirdHouse Books The Golden books are great: And along with a ton of other travel brochures, I really like the art on this one from Tehran.
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 we ripped out a wall with closets between two very small rooms, we carefully saved all the lumber. The
Love it or criticize it, we’re excited for a new season of “Mad Men” Sunday March 25 and the long awaited styles and interiors! Here’s the little preview video (although we spotted more than one scene from past seasons!) And the new season poster:
You walk into a neon shop expecting nostalgia. You leave thinking about chemistry, electricity, municipal zoning codes, and 1940s craftsmanship. That’s what happened when I toured Morry’s Neon, a family business opened in 1985 by Morry and his son Glen, a business built on a neon legacy that began in 1946 when Morry first started bending glass. Established the same year America decided diners, drive-ins, and optimism were perfectly reasonable things to mass-produce, Morry’s has
