1940s Home Decor Home Decorating Ideas

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• Antik Handgeknüpft Rot Blau Weiß 1940er Jahre Wollteppich, Wollteppich, Schlafzimmer Teppich, Wohnzimmer Teppich, Boho Teppich
• A coat of interior paint, along with some new decor, can give a room an entire new look a.
• retro WRIGLEYS WERBEPLAKAT, digitale Downloads, A4 & super size, Wandkunst, Wohnkultur, Einweihung, Retro Design
• Blue 1940s Kitchen Full of Linoleum
• Art Deco PFEILKREUZ Germany Pottery Wall Clock HAU Junghans mcm Germany Kitchen WGP Spray Decor Plum
• Two 1940s studio apartment designs

Three types of linoleum are combined to form this floor. Remember, we still were a nation concerned about vermin and disease, including polio. When your kitchen is white, you can see the dirt and crumbs — and get rid of them. There was so much to be grateful for, that we did not necessarily need “more stuff” to be happier. I also swear I’ve read somewhere that there were prohibitions on building more than one indoor bathroom at some point… I need to find the source. Public Domain Mark 1.0This 1940s dining room style is up for interpretation.

Edges would be rounded off with a router, sanded down, and lacquered to help smooth them down. Home design in the 1940s, especially in the kitchen, represented a rapid shift. Older styles and materials were quickly replaced. New ideas took hold, and the kitchen was transformed.

Antik Handgeknüpft Rot Blau Weiß 1940er Jahre Wollteppich, Wollteppich, Schlafzimmer Teppich, Wohnzimmer Teppich, Boho Teppich

Public Domain Mark 1.0The custom linoleum lets us know the bedroom belongs to none other than Tom, Dick, and Larry. At that time, it was possible to order customized linoleum flooring with special name plate inserts from the Armstrong factory. Public Domain Mark 1.0This 1940s bathroom is the epitome of modern and sophisticated. It is a Hollywood Regency, or Regency Moderne, style made on the cheap with linoleum flooring and other inexpensive materials. On the other hand, the sleek styles that would characterize the Jet Age period of the late 1950s and 1960s, while still on the horizon, would begin to occasionally show up.

The catalog contains several ideas specific to linoleum patterns — which were super common in 1940s decor. Hazel points out that this flooring can come to the rescue when a room’s furnishings are undistinguished. From the sounds of this catalog, folks were making do with the furniture they had and adding spiff around the edges. When I look at some 1940s interior design and decor, I see a real sweetness. We still were a nation in which the masses did not have a lot of material affluence.

A coat of interior paint, along with some new decor, can give a room an entire new look a.

This last room is yet another example of remodeling a single space into a room that serves many purposes. This example is described as an unused attic space that was converted into a livable one room apartment — complete with bathroom and kitchen. Keeping the color scheme simple also unifies the various functional spaces and makes the room feel larger than it is. The catalog also shows different ways that linoleum can be used — including on kitchen counter tops. Today, we hear often from readers who find remnants of vintage flooring in closets and at the bottom of cabinets. We did not get television until 1949… before that, our idols were often very glamorous.

I had always wondered where all the money came from for all those new purchases after the war. I knew people during the war were being very frugal but it never dawned on me until you said something, but hey, they were making money during the war they just had nothing to spend it on. All to conserve every scrap available to furnish materials for the uniforms and other fabric needs of the military. No, they didn’t wear the colors and the types of fabrics civilians did – it started with the raw materials and how they were put to use.

retro WRIGLEYS WERBEPLAKAT, digitale Downloads, A4 & super size, Wandkunst, Wohnkultur, Einweihung, Retro Design

Unfinished pine was a favored inexpensive wood often used for kitchen cabinets. These were touches that hearkened back to an earlier, more innocent age before the war. We have a lot of work to do in the kitchen before I really get to doing anything about the linoleum fixes in there. And we won’t be doing the bathroom un-updating project until after that. So I’ll pop into the flooring shop periodically to check for new colors during that time.

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Even fabrics though were scarce, with the War Production boards putting clothing on the “endangered list,” declaring how clothing was to be constructed to conserve fabrics. Even the use of elastics even came under fire when the sources of natural rubber dried up because there were no more imports from the countries that produced it. Shoes came under the sharp eye of the Board, rationing leather, encouraging the fads of fabric sandals and espadrilles, fabric covered heels that were usually wood underneath, open toed shoes and so on. In the past I had bought wallpaper on clearance and found out it was so old the color was not still being used for accessories. I had a devil of a time finding drapery fabric!

Linoleumwas still widely used as a floor covering. Colors often hovered in the range of pastels. Iconographic shapes like scallops, sweeps, and curves were common.

Bette Davis, Signed Autograph Photo, Art Deco Glass Frame, 1930s - 1940s

Remember women’s clothes from the 1940s – their hats and tailored suits and gloves and bags and hose, the whole very put-together thing? That’s the look I think of for 1940s bedrooms and living rooms – formal, very put together. In other rooms, we also may see large prints used on wallpaper and barkcloth pinch pleats, often tropical. I see a lot of red-white-blue kitchen color combinations in the kitchens of 1940s homes. I also see richer colors – full-on primary colors and jewel tones – than in the later 1950s pastel period. I’ll attribute this to carryover 1930s preferences and to the influence of Hollywood, but there may have been other factors — there often are, often related to technological innovation.

A strange geometric design with the classic rust brown, avocado green in it, along with some black and what was probably cream at one time. It has been quite lumpy to walk on and we sure found out why. The adhesive underneath had disintegrated into black sand.