50s house

If you want to see how new homes were designed back in the rock 'n' roll and 'Leave it to Beaver' era, we have some fantastic '50s house plans for you!

One of the more entertaining aspects of looking at floor plans entails envisioning how one might move through the spaces. This plan has some great mid century features like the snack bar, big windows, and massive brick fireplace in the large living room.

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Day #2 of my coverage of the Nevada Preservation Foundation’s 2016 Vintage Vegas Home & History tour and oh happy day, let’s take a look inside this just-about-perfect Desert Modern midcentury modest house. Isn’t the kitchen adorable — and just wait until you see the blue bathroom, complete with vintage foil wallpaper that the new…

For this home room arrangement adapts to small - or growing - family. There's a choice of places for living and dining. There are 7 larg...

No matter how fabulous our modern kitchens look, there's something we can't quite shake about the retro kitchens of yesterday.

Modern residential architecture was seen as early as the late 1920s, but failed to attract a following until the 1950s when young families started building homes like the Butte.

Name: Andrea & Christopher Location: Coventry, Rhode Island We visited this 1958 mid-century ranch on a miserable New England winter day. We weren’t even on the market but as soon as we walked into the kitchen, I turned to the realtor and said, “We’ll take it.” A mid-century ranch in New England that was built with every mod-con available in 1958 and never updated is a rare find. We’re putting the house on the market but wanted to celebrate it before we say goodbye!

This is exactly the kind of story I was hoping to ultimately see lots of, when I started this blog nine years ago: Contractors … professional remodelers … house-flippers, even … who would see the charm in the original architecture of midcentury homes and instead of updating them, would Retro Renovate them. And not just…