40s house decor

This is such a bold and interesting palette of color. The combo of brown, orange, apple green, and peachy pink (ceiling!) with brass accents is really cool. The gladiolas are a 50s classic. Published in Ladies Home Journal.

Advice given to the 1930s home owner on Interior Decorating: Colour will always remain a question of personal preference, and it is advisable to live with the colours that appeal to you most, altho…

This gallery documents Joanna Francis's 1940s home at Burton Stather near Scunthorpe. Life on the home front during the 1940s was very different to today's modern world. Until war broke out in September 1939, most women did not work outside the home. Many homes did not have running water in the house, water was carried in buckets from an outside well, or perhaps some were lucky enough to have a pump inside. To produce hot water it would be heated on top of a stove, often wood burning. That…

original 1940s velvet dress and 1930s shoes. Love the room too

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To celebrate my latest vintage pin featuring measuring scales and mixing bowl, I share 10 key pieces to create a vintage 1930s 1940s kitchen

Better Homes and Gardens has covered interior design since the dawn of the Jazz Age. Join us as we take a decade-by-decade look back through the furniture, colors, and styles that filled our homes over the past century, along with the people and events that drove the designs of our lives.