I fell in love with the style of these rooms as soon as I saw them! They were featured in the September 1971 issue of McCall’s magazine, and all were designed by David Hicks. I had never heard of this designer, but a quick internet search was all it took for me to learn that [...]
The September 1927 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal is full of elegant, beautiful images. Two such images come from these ads that appeared in the magazine’s pages, and both happen to feature sun rooms. I think they are gorgeous and I can easily imagine myself sitting there, perhaps having a glass of lemonade, and simply [...]
Kitchens have changed quite a bit throughout the years. In times past, most housewives spent a great deal of time in this room and so it’s not surprising that the kitchen was often a colorful space. It also usually featured some type of organization so the housewife could prepare her family’s meals in as efficient [...]
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According to the ad above, from the April 1916 issue of Ladies Home Journal, “Women are beginning to look beyond the mere beautifying of their homes with paints and varnishes. They see the results of decay when painting is delayed and the unnecessary cost of frequent paintings when poor paint is used.” This is where [...]
The very bold room above comes from an article in the September 1966 issue of Woman’s Day magazine. As the article explained,
“To show you the wonders wallpaper can work, herewith a few guidelines and suggestions to help you; opposite and on the following pages, four rooms specially decorated with wallpaper to inspire you.”
So, here are [...]
These boldly-decorated rooms were featured in the November 1966 issue of Woman’s Day magazine. “A picture window can frame a view or be its own center of interest,” the magazine explained. In the picture above, it is pretty obvious that the window is surely the center of interest! Here is how the article described that [...]
A good place to get ideas about what ideal interior designs of a certain time period looked like is in ads of the times. The rooms displayed in ads were intended to draw the admiration of the reader in order to associate their product with the beautiful, stylish design.
The kitchen shown above is taken from [...]
…but I love it!
So says a Betty, a young woman with her first job, about her newly-decorated bedroom pictured above. The photo and story come from the January 1942 issue of McCall’s magazine. As Betty explains it, she now has a job; but between lunches and bus fare and work clothes and the room-and-board she [...]
“Does your kitchen have a personality problem - is it workable, efficient, but just plain dull?”
In 1971, “dull” was definitely BAD. The April, 1971 issue of Family Circle magazine featured many segments of its “Do it yourself budget decorating” series, and the common theme in all of their decorating was color and pattern.
The Family Circle-designed [...]
