Vintage Inspiration
Just checking in with a little vintage inspiration. I’ve had this issue of H&G sitting out in my guestroom for awhile. The cover is so fantastic. It reminds me so much of Dorothy Draper and Kate Spade style. This issue is from May 1965. I am having deja-blog because I feel sure I must have shared this one with you before, but I just did a search and don’t see it in the archives.
There is another great article in here called “Same Space: Two Kitchens.” I should totally cut it out and send it to Susan Serra, I know she’d get a kick out of the kitchen organization and spatial issues and how they were addressed in 1965. My favorite part are the following two images. I will always be a sucker for a black and white checkerboard floor; it will NEVER go out of style with me. Neither will pop floral prints. Also, these colored square-ish cabinets are so fantastic. With a few tweaks, the blue kitchen could be a wonderful IKEA display room today.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Hey, thanks for the shout out! Yes, I love looking at the vintage stuff. And, it’s funny, but the vintage mod kitchens really were not so bad! And, I was just thinking of a big checkerboard floor somehow stenciled on my wood floor just last week! Fun stuff…
March 26th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Susan, did you see the Miles Redd garden in Domino this month (the one with Drew Barrymore on the cover)? He has a fabulous diamond floor and it is making me want to do the same thing to my porch, if only I could understand how to do the taping and painting correctly…
Becky