Show us your vintage home!

[Sweet Leilani]

Zemke Fan- Thank you, I've been working hard on my kitchen since I've been here. Next is replacing the counter tops. I'm leaning towards a boomerang laminate with the metal edge. I live fairly close to Reading in the Lancaster area so, I am familiar with the WWII weekend but have never gotten to go. There are lots of great shops in the Adamstown area that you must check out when you come for a visit!

Sweet Leilani- Thank you! Cool a PA gal! You must let me know what kinds of shops they have around your area, I'm always looking for new vintage places to explore. Here in Lancaster County we have Adamstown. Have you ever ventured there?

Oh yes! We have quite a few great shops here in Quakertown also, along with some great flea markets. But my primary targets are yard sales- we have a preponderance of older people living in older homes, so it stands to reason that we have some good sales. PM me if you're ever in the area and I can show you around!

Do you know of a place that can do countertops like you want? Last I heard no one was making the boomerang formica anymore, but some oldstock stuff was still going for $$$. The marbleized/gold fleck formica might still be around, though. I would like to redo our countertops someday as well- right now we have cheesy woodgrain formica.

Definitely come to WWII weekend if you can- it's like vintage heaven!!

 

[Absinthe_1900]

This Boomerang Formica™?

In several colors.

http://www.formica.com/publish/site/na/us/en/index/laminate/colors_collections/classics.html

 

[Sweet Leilani]

Awesome! Glad to see they're bringing back the classics! :eusa_clap

 

[Dinerman]

I like this stuff
http://www.oh-diners.com/divers/laminate.htm

 

[MaryDeluxe]

Sweet Leilani: I found the boomerang Formaica samples at my local LOWES kitchen department. They would be able to help you with kitchen counter tops. I'm eventually going to do the Grey boomerang with a metal edge to it. It's a spring/summer project! hehe we have cheesy woodgrain laminate too!
I'm gonna have to try to get to WWII weekend this year. That weekend usually takes place the same weekend as NSRA in York so my butt gets taken there to show my boyfriend's car.

 

[MaryDeluxe]

Dinerman, you might like this site too
http://www.barsandbooths.com/bandblaminates.htm

 

[Dinerman]

I love that mother of pearl formica.

 

[priestyboy]

So much to see, so I made a little tour trough my house with the filmcamera;

http://www.hab3045.nl/albums/huis/house2.wmv

(may take a while to load)

Joeri,

So incredible. All of your photos and now the film...so vintage, I love it. I wish I was that creative!

 

[Atomic Glee]

Well, this isn't MY vintage home, but I thought it'd be cool to share with the Lounge, and it's my thread.

I headed to Fort Worth's Fairmount neighborhood just south of downtown. Fairmount is the largest historic neighborhood in the southwestern United States, and one of the largest (some say THE largest) concentrations of bungalows in the country. With more than one thousand contributing structures, the Fairmount historic neighborhood is comprised of mostly bungalow and four square homes from the late 1800s through the early 1920s.

 

[Atomic Glee]

 

[Atomic Glee]

Fairmount is just about two miles south of downtown, in the Fort Worth South district. Fort Worth South is an area that suffered decades of decline due to suburban flight, but is now being reborn. Within the last five years, it has really turned around, and property values have tripled since then as people return to the neighborhood and start restoring these bungalows. It's safe now, and getting cleaned up and buzzing with activity. All around, there is new urban development, as well. New homes are being built in Fairmount, and have to look like '20s bungalows or they don't get approved. The neighborhood's main street, Magnolia Avenue, features tons of restored historic commercial buildings from the teens and '20s that have attracted locally-owned shops and restaurants, and there's a lot of new loft and townhome projects in the area as well. What was once dismissed as a dead neighborhood is now bustling, and has become a fantastic traditional neighborhood being revitalized using the principles of the New Urbanism. It's very much a traditional neighborhood, in that you can walk to a lot of places and you're not tied to using your car. And, when the long-planned return of light rail to Fort Worth finally occurs, Fort Worth South will get back the last piece of the puzzle - its old streetcar line, killed off in the '50s.

A great success story, and a really cool little bit of Golden Era living.

 

[texasgirl]

Awesome pictures! Such beautiful houses! Thanks Kevin!

 

[Sweet Leilani]

*Sigh*
I wish my neighborhood looked like that...

It's great to live out in the country, but I miss sidewalks and neighbors on front porches... and a trolley line! How wonderful!

 

[MaryDeluxe]

Atomic Glee: Wow, I just drooled all over my key board! hahaha

 

[Lady Day]

A look at my part of my kitchen.

*gasp*

I LOVE your Mammie cookie jar! Where did you get it?Is it original? It looks in amazing condition!


LD

 

[MaryDeluxe]

Mammie is actually a cast iron bank. She is original but I'm not sure how old she is. Mammie comes from my boyfriend's side of the family. I have a small collection of F & F Aunt Jemima and Uncle Moses kitchen things. So, she goes well with them in the kitchen!

 

[Mike1973]

WOW!

I've not been on this thread for months, some great homes on here :eusa_clap

I popped in because someone sent me this little link and I thought some of you may be interested...

http://www.populuxebooks.com/index....---------------------------------------------

 

[ohairas]

What a wonderful thread! Such awesome homes everyone... I felt I was standing back in time looking at many of them!

We will celebrate our home's centennial this year! Our sidewalk says 1907, and when we were taking out the plaster in our front bedroom, we found a chalk drawing of a man and the year 1907 behind the lath.
When we moved in the home had been modernized, but not for the good. We've been trying to undo the madness. Both sets of pocket doors were sealed up, but at least they were still there!

Our house is a great work in progress still, and since we had little Nova our renovations have gone to the wayside. Hopefully this year we will get a lot done! So, nothing is really "in place" yet and most of my collectables are packed up.

Sorry these albums are such a mess, I had them nicely organized before yahoo changed things once again!

Our son's room was to be one of the last rooms we redid.. but since I got pregnant unexpectedly, it quickly moved up on the ladder!
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/ohairas/album/576460762343339412

If walls could talk:
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/ohairas/album/576460762343344684

The house,
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/ohairas/album/576460762343349331

Living room redo:
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/ohairas/album/576460762343346676

Laundry room, (exciting I know.. but for an old house to even have one!)
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/ohairas/album/576460762343346123

Dining room,
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/ohairas/album/576460762343342091

My craft room,
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/ohairas/album/576460762343340938

Bedroom,
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/ohairas/album/576460762343340173

The kitchen, which I wish could be more vintagey!
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/ohairas/album/576460762343345542

Some of my 'junque' I've gathered over the years,
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/ohairas/album/576460762343326962

I apologize for all the links but I shore don't wanna load these pics to another site, lol!
Nikki

 

[cookie]

American 20th century Architecture

You have a great tradition in America with your 20th c stuff especially the ubiquitous Craftsman. What a style and homely too boot. Guard them with your life guys!

C

 

[misslizzy]

Our apartment, built 1959 and furnished mid-century modern style...

Seating area

Dining area

The bar

My collector's cabinet