Suddenly, it's 1956! The Dining Room

This shot shows the built-in room divider in between the living room and dining room. The divider is not original, but is from an original 1954 design out of a home interior magazine from that year. I drew it up and had it made and installed while I was renovating the place.

Another shot looking at room divider and into dining room.

Yeah, I know...vertical blinds. The thing is I can't find the right drapes I want to put there, so they are going to have to do for the time being, I guess.  :(

Floor is green and light gray checker linoleum tiles. They were trimmed to the original 9x9 sixe squares to stay period correct. I definitely did not want to do the stereotyped 50's malt shop, black and white checkered squares that so many mistaken as being the true 50's. Give me a break!

 Looking at dining room from kitchen. The table and chairs are all original. The only thing I had redone on them is the chrome. Other than that, it has the original mother-of-pearl (a.k.a. crushed ice) formica top and vinyl on the chairs. You can see on the room divider that there are doors on this side of it for cabinet storage.

 The hutch, again, was my godmother's and was purchased in 1956 from McMann Furniture in Ontario, California. When I received it from her it was orange from cigarette smoke residue. It took a couple hours to really clean it up. It's not perfect, but it still rocks!

Another shot of the hutch showing it's contents...vintage 1950's glassware.

This fiberglass planter used to be turquoise, but it was too faded and stained, so I painted it a light yellow to still keep with the color scheme of that time.

I snagged this off of Ebay a year ago. The thing screams atomic!

The retractable flying saucer lamp was another Ebay find. It still has it original brass finish. All I did is have it rewired to be safe.