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Georges Briard tiles — Tens of thousands of pieces of New Old Stock — 30+...
Thanks, Danielle, for this great tip — Danielle is a retro-loving friend I invited to my first-ever wreath-making session! Here’s yet another story of a ginormous stockpile of New Old Stock...
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Heidi & Scott recreate a 1950s birch wood kitchen for their Cinderella ranch...
Chatting it up with Nevada Preservation Executive Director Heidi Swank during my recent trip to speak at their second annual Las Vegas Home & History Tour, I was tantalized to hear about all the...
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What’s new at Kate’s retro ranch — Cork flooring!
My husband Jim and I have lived in our 1962 ranch house for six years now. The previous owners had readied the house for sale by painting every wall greige and installing new light beige carpeting in...
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Magnetic paper towel holder for your steel kitchen cabinets from Harbor...
Another of the joys of vintage steel kitchen cabinets is that they hold magnets. Reader Tommy emailed me just yesterday with what looks like a good (great?) source for some accessories that you can...
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One ingenious couple + two sets of vintage St. Charles kitchen cabinets = a...
One of the most enjoyable parts of our trip to KBIS 2016 in January was meeting some of our readers there — like Roger. When we met, he mentioned he had recently remodeled his 1953 kitchen featuring...
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Midcentury modern kitchen backsplash idea: Back-painted textured glass
Photo courtesy of Che Bella Interiors and Spacecrafting. If you have a midcentury modern style kitchen — and want to keep the kitchen backsplash as simple, yet functional, as possible, check out this...
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Boomerang laminate style melamine dinner plates
To be able to run the blog full-time — including paying Kate — I mostly make money from the ads. Another relatively small source of income is monthly earnings from Amazon. When I write about and link...
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Cathrineholm style melamine and stoneware dishes by Dansk at Bed Bath and Beyond
How’s this for some happy-hued plates, bowls, mugs and trays? Reader Susan commented on our recent story about boomerang laminate style melamine plates to give us this hot tip: Bed Bath and Beyond has...
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Dozens of samples of vintage laminates from six companies in France:...
Oh my word: Dozens of vintage laminate samples from five companies in France. Formica is the big name, but we also get to see designs from Celamine, Dilophane, Permalux, Plattan Perstorp (or is it...
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Terrazzio terrazzo floor tiles — 14 colors and 20 sizes, a lovely choice for...
If you are on the hunt for new flooring for your midcentury home, we’ve got another option for you. Mega thanks to readers Jim, Suzanne and Wes for tipping us to Terrazzio. Made with traditional...
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The Smith house on Pinocchio Street in Dallas — drop-dead gorgeous, no lie! —...
Sneak peek: Goes on sale Thursday Which photo to to lead with? The front with the pink Cadillac? Or the back, with Bob’s Big Boy guarding the pool? Now those are decisions I don’t get to make every...
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Vintage GE kitchen cabinets installed with a modern twist — I love it!
Do you love vintage steel kitchen cabinets, but want to use them in a more contemporary way? Well, consider this brilliant idea from my brother and sister-in-law, who recently completed a major...
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Shirley All-Steel Kitchens of Indianapolis, Indiana
Now that Kate has flown my coop, I have decided to embark on a new project: Creating The Retro Renovation® Encyclopedia of Vintage Steel Kitchen Cabinets. Collected over the course of 10years — often...
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Get the look of mother of pearl / cracked ice laminate with Wilsonart...
If you love the look of old mother of pearl aka cracked ice or crackle ice laminate, I found a new version — Wilsonart’s Crystalized White — that is a decent proxy and could be a great choice for a...
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Streaky jaspe style vinyl sheet flooring — could be great for a retro-modern...
Obsessively searching to find new vinyl flooring for my basement, I ran into this new design — “Raeburn” from IVC’s Flexitech @ Work Collection Astro series. I love how IVC has reimagined the classic...
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Interviewed by the Washington Post about TV tray tables … What do you think...
The Washington Post’s home and design reporter Jura Koncius recently emailed me, wanting to talk about TV tray tables. She was working on a feature to go with the launch of the new fall TV season: a...
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Ondrea and James’ English Rose kitchen: Two sets refurbished into one joyful...
English Rose metal kitchen cabinets: One of three brands we’ve identified as made and sold in England — and, still made today! But being a U.S.-based blog, we have mostly U.S. readers (84%), so it’s...
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English Rose-vintage-style kitchen cabinets from John Lewis of Hungerford
Since I first wrote about the English Rose-style metal kitchen cabinets made by John Lewis of Hungerford in the wee early days of the blog — 2008, there has been an explosion of interest in midcentury...
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Vintage English Rose kitchen aluminium banquette seats
It’s an English Rose kitchen hat trick — three days of stories about these wonderful vintage design kitchen cabinets made and sold in England back in the day. Today’s finale: Photos of vintage...
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Mannington Progressions Vinyl Composition Tile — the red, yellow, blue and...
Always on the search for retro flooring options, I ordered some samples from Mannington’s Progression line of 12″x12″ vinyl composition tile. There were several colors that looked like they could work...
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