Mid-century paint colourway does it for us!

I am a very boring individual at the moment, stuck here at home whilst shooing away this stubborn bacterial infection. Not nice. To wile away time I have done silly things like paid bills, put my retro mag collection in order and poured over this one mag from Jan 1959 - that's it, House and Garden. The above advert for International Majorca colourway swatches and paints got to me. I just couldn't stop thinking about it.



And then it got to me. It wasn't my fevered brain doing weird things (which it has done all week thanks to drowsy antibiotics and anti-nausea thingies) - it was the colourway of the room! Dark blood red with a pale chartreuse green roof - oh, how I love it! I have gone from a "no, it is going to be all white, ALL WHITE, I say!" house to one filled with some colour. This is a perfect colour combo for our main living room...it brings such joy to my heart instead of the feeling of 'clean' I get from white. Strange, isn't it? Oh, dear...please don't tell me it's the fever!

House and Garden January 1959

I have been holed up at home with another illness. Whilst feeling utterly shocking it has given me some time today to read one of my latest pick ups - the House and Garden January 1959 mag. The front cover is above...how's that for a holiday home? The caption to the cover reads: Mrs Noble Glenn, a tenant, posed for us on the way to the surf. Priceless - a tenant? Mrs Noble Glenn? Gone are the days when you lost your (female) name entirely!



One of the most interesting double page spreads is about the 'new' board and batten look - aka asbestos sheeting. How fabulous does it look?? But the whole asbestos story is just so, so, so sad. We are thinking of using Shadowclad on our carport and entrance to the house - but you have to stop and think. What is in Shadowclad apart from wood panels? Not saying it would be anything life-threatening...but just how much do we know??



I love the look of this home. I totally love the use of colour - the yellow, the blue and the spot read. Gosh they had some classy use of colour back then. Not just the white and accent of today - they had boldness! What a pity so much 1950s and 60s housing has been bulldozed - it's quite rare you see these quaint little houses around in these parts today...even as holiday homes...

Vintage fabric giveaway #3 - majestic old blue/white brocade - huge!

We have a wonderful piece of vintage 50s or 60s fabric for our Sunday giveaway. This is an unused remnant and perfect for large or small projects as this piece is a whopping 200cm wide x 80cm long. The photo above shows 40cm of fabric.

This brocade is a blend and would have been manufactured for mattresses in its day. The photo below shows the underside - it looks just as fabulous, doesn't it?

Both sides look just as wonderful as each other but as the satin stripe is on the blue side that would be the fabric face.

The remnant is completely unused however it does have some storage marks...but as its never been washed I think these would come out AOK.

This vintage fabric giveaway is open to Australians only - due to weight of fabric. If international peeps would like to be included in this giveaway please note shipping charges to your country need to be covered by you - sorry! We'll cover the first $5.00 as a thank you for being part of this giveaway, though! This giveaway closes 8pm AEST, Tuesday 5 May and to enter please leave a comment to this post about anything you would like!

NOW CLOSED - THANK YOU!