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This is a beautiful illustrated image from a 1929 Kohler ad for an Art Deco style bathroom. Great colors and something that would be reproducible today. Notice the absence of subway tile. ;-) Source: House & Garden From the Antique Home & Style 1920s Bathroom collection.
In this craftsman bungalow, Anne McDonald used the home's original dark-stained red oak trim and millwork as the inspiration for a moody palette.
With a small budget, here's how one couple tackled their 1910 home's dated bathroom.
Weren't those kitchens from Antique Home Style beautiful? Today I am going to share bedrooms! Most of these pictures are actually advertisements for flooring, hence the bright carpets and floor coverings. A cheerful little bedroom under the eves. I have always loved dormers. 1920s architects made great use of them in bungalow style houses. Through the doorway one catches a glimpse of a sewing room.......rather interesting a curtain is used to separate the two. An attic bedroom. Did you notice a chair is almost always pictured? I love the idea! It would be very handy to have someplace to sit, especially if it is a cozy one like the wing chair above! I hadn't realized painted furniture was so popular in this era. I love the same of the headboards and the painted roses.
This house and plan were shown in the 1923 plan book, The Books of a Thousand Homes. It featured 500 small house plans. Most of them really were small by today's standards. This one reflects the post WWI movement away from the horizontally oriented Craftsman-style to the more modern and very romantic aesthetic of the 1920s. This particular plan was by Olsen & Urbain, Architects. Source: The Books of a Thousand Homes: 500 Small House Plans edited by Henry Atterbury Smith. From the Antique Home Style collection.
If you have a 1920s-era house and want to play up its original architecture and design aesthetic — chances are it will look even more divine with wallpaper from the era. Good news: Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers — one of our favorite longtime wallpaper companies — is today introducing a new line of wallpapers…
Published in Ladies Home Journal, this would make a delightful sun room today in a 1920s Dutch Colonial Revival style home.
Early in the 1920s, bathrooms were fairly modest rooms. By the end of the decade, you can see the finishes and style become more and more extravagant. Source: House & Garden
Feast your eyes upon this gorgeous renovation by architectural designer Jeff Edwards and interior designer Greg Baudoin.
Woah guys, Hello! To say this kitchen reveal is a long time in the making is an understatement, and I am thrilled to reveal our newly renovated kitchen and mudroom addition! This project has been in the works since 2017, and with the help of my trusty friend SketchUp, we were able to come up with the perfect plan for our home through countless iterations. We were asking ourselves big questions, like what does this house need that would make our life inside its walls the most comfortable? Our goal was to create a functional kitchen with room enough to cook and have friends over, a mudroom and utility closet that would work hard for our family, a powder room that would be easily accessible yet tucked away and private, a patio that could be used for summer cookouts, AND that we keep it all historically relevant to the era of the home. We were willing to make a big investment in our home to achieve that. Our home is a 1910 four square/craftsman mix, and we were committed to respecting its historical architecture in all of our renovation plans. Think 1910 in the details but with better plumbing and insulation. We came up with a plan that did a handful of things for us and how we experience our home. Our plan was to turn the space that was formerly the kitchen, pantry and mudroom into a single kitchen which would encompass the entire back quarter of the house instead of just a small portion of it like it had. We would extend out the back of the house, adding a small but mighty 11’x11′ addition which would gain us a main floor powder room, a coat closet / pantry / utility closet and a mudroom off the rear entrance to the house. That solved a lot of the flow issues we were having on the interior. The addition also solved a number of issues on the exterior of our home too – I’ll make sure to follow up once the backyard recovers from last year’s excavation, but to sum it up quickly, the addition would create an intimate nook we could use as a patio and allow us a better entrance into the yard and garden. Historical Details The most important thing to us was to maintain the historical integrity of our home. We were committed to preserving […]
Den blommiga tapeten Trädgårdsstaden satt gömd under många lager tapet i en villa i Borås-trakten. Nu trycker vi denna 1920-talstapet på nytt i tre härliga färgställningar. Här ser du mönstret i originalets färgskala: mättade toner av koboltblått, grönt, rött, orange och blekrosa på en dovt brun botten. Det luftiga, botaniska mönstret är typiskt för 20-talet, och visst skvallrar både mönsterbild och färgställning om inspiration från öst? Orientaliska influenser var mycket vanligt vid denna tidsperiod.
A 1920s Tudor house blends vintage charm and cozy furnishings.
In French folklore, the word Ganache was originally coined as an insult by an angry head chef in 1920s Paris. The resulting happy accident was the blend of rich chocolate and hot cream that features so profoundly in today’s patisseries. As a paint shade, it was revealed as one of several colours in an intricately painted ceiling at Blickling Hall in Norfolk, boarded over in the early 20th century and rediscovered after a flood nearly a hundred years later. With its enviable profundity, Ganache is likely to be the darkest shade in your room scheme, but consider pairing it with the even darker Chocolate Colour for a deeply committed interior design statement
Otto Martin, who has always been inspired by the atmospheric interiors of historic houses, has filled his home with a lifetime's worth of antiques and art
Published in American Home as an ad for Crane plumbing fixtures. The kitchen ads are published about 20% as often as the bathroom ads, so finding them ... especially the good ones ... is a little more challenging.
This Missouri family updated their 1925 bungalow to restore its original Craftsman style. Thrifted finds and DIY projects now fill it with farmhouse style.
The science of paint analysis is providing new insights into early decorative schemes, to the benefit of homeowners in search of paint color ideas.
A few months ago, I shared a peek at our latest project. I share a few more about our plans to restore an almost 100-year-old home.
Sarah Solis revived a creative family's 1920s home in Los Angeles by adding color, texture, and plenty of patina.
Some of the world's top interior designers reveal the things they cherish most in their own homes
... by Armstrong Cork Company featuring linoleum. Source: American Home From the Antique Home & Style collection.
Read about Ellen DeGeneres' horse ranch and get her design tips from this project in an excerpt from her new book.
While these days we don't think twice about ordering all kinds of things online, with giants like Amazon offering pretty much anything you could possibly imagine shipped to your doorstep, the mail-order concept goes back much further than you might think, and you could even get an entire house delivered by mail.
A DIY couple help an already intact house embrace its age—and the new-old kitchen is an achievement!
Home makeovers require you to first get inspired, and then get to work. See before-and-after home makeover photos and follow our tips to get started.
One of the easiest flooring types to maintain has to be linoleum. That was as true in 1928 as it is today. This living room with its tile pattern would have been well suited to the many revival architectural styles of the day, especially Spanish Eclectic or English Cottage. The color scheme is posted at Antique Home & Style.
1. A Human Torpedo, 1967 They were used as secret naval weapons in World War II. The basic concept is still in use. The Italian Navy experimented with a primitive tiny sub carrying two men as 1918 and this craft did have some success. The first truly practical human torpedo was the Itali
While these days we don't think twice about ordering all kinds of things online, with giants like Amazon offering pretty much anything you could possibly imagine shipped to your doorstep, the mail-order concept goes back much further than you might think, and you could even get an entire house delivered by mail.
Today I will premiering the 1st episode in my Toronto Home Renovation series on YouTube. In this episode I vlog the first step in our home renovation journey - the demolition of the first floor and basement. If you are looking to do some Toronto home renovations I have some great recommendations! Co
One of Edna Walling's greatest feats was designing Bickleigh Vale; a unique 10-hectare housing development she created in the 1920s. Today the Vardy family
Every book lover needs a place to display and read their beloved hardbacks. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to build a DIY window seat with a book case.
From an ad for Whittall Rugs in the November 1924 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine. My vintage website is at: www.vintage123.com
Houses of the 1920s–40s, and how to treat them.
