Can someone please lend me US$1.3m? I'm good for it :)

The older I get the more I am appreciating vintage architecture and mid-century interiors. Sometimes I sit for hours looking at old magazines, fantasining about patios, balconies and snugs. Now it's al fresco, theatre room and walk ins. I prefer the original myself :)

The more I start to plan the renovation of our early 1970s original retro house the more I am thinking I want an older home to renovate - or to keep original. The problem with so many houses is that they are partially renovated (and not very well IMHO - ugh, the 80s pink!) or have been left to age and rot :(

Anyone have a cool $1.3m US dollars in their bank account? This gorgeous original 1965 house - erm, bloody large home! - is currently for sale with all original furnishings etc. Every time I look at just one of the photos in their Des Moines listing a part of me just leaps for joy at the perfect architecture and interior. Look at that sunken lounge :) - I would LOVE a sunken lounge...

I would also love shelving like the one in the photo above. And a hallway to withstand the magnificent shelving. And a sublime orange couch to offset the gorgeous green carpet. Oh - seriously - I could go on forever about this house. Pop over to the real estate listing to have a peek at the glamour of yesterday - and, if ya can, feel free to buy it for Retro Age Vintage Fabrics...the fabrics would look gorgeous in there!

Isn't she gorgeous?

We are stocktaking the fabric offered on the website (again!) - a time consuming job that is NOT my favourite thing to do in the world. It means double checking stock levels, so each bolt has to be measured up against what's on the website and what's being offered elsewhere. Seeing as the website stock is being checked I decided to vamp up the splash page with this sexy lady. Amazing fabric, isn't it? Gorgeous colourway - and it's in my personal stash - for the moment :) I can't help myself with this one :)

178m of vintage, retro and modern fabric....

I am now officially over O.V.A.H photographing these fabrics and listing them on ebay. OVAH. S.O OVAH. But I am determined to complete the assignment.

Thus - another seven auctions went up tonight. That takes the stash up on ebay at the moment to around 180m. Holy fabric, Batman - that's a lot of fabric!

I am not going to put any auctions up tomorrow as Fridays are a bad day for ebay with their maintenance etc - so Saturday and Sunday it is. I'll aim for seven auctions each day. At last count I think I have around 16 bundles still to list.

I am taking the most of tomorrow off to give ourselves a semi-long (ish) weekend - we need more of them to get ourselves healthy and well. For once we have our packaging done in time so everything will be completed tomorrow morning and we'll have some time to photograph and perhaps list some new fabric on the website and that will be it. Woo hoo.

I have been devouring my fave blog recently - have a look at this post if you love 'modernism' and what everyone thought we would be living like now back in 1957. Soooo kitsch - and so cool!