1939 home decor

If you're planning to buy a house built in the 1930s, this post is for you. Buying an older property has many advantages over a newly built but there are a few things you should check and take into consideration before making a decision. I'm sharing my honest opinion on the blog after years of living in a 1920s semi.

YOUR PLACE: A reworked and newly personalized Madison Park home gets serious points for originality.

This top-to-bottom renovation took two two years to finish, and the homeowners did nearly 100% of the work themselves.

Even the furniture is 80 years old!

This 1930s semi has been carefully crafted into a calming family home with soft tones and clever design

Interior design is a small passion of mine! We knew that this would be a great opportunity to promote our store, Anecdote. It is our plan to turn the house into a show house to benefit the Hinsdale Historical Society. A lot of beautiful, older homes in Hinsdale have been knocked down the last few years, and we hope that by making this a show house, people might be inspired to restore and update older homes as opposed to tearing them down.

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…

See how the artistic homeowner has created a welcoming space that’s full of personality

Anna Keen, a mum-of-two from Oxfordshire and the creator of Instagram account @theinteriorframe, shares the renovation journey of her 1930s home.

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.