Love 1940s vintage

I was married (on a shoestring) in August, 1947. Extreme housing shortage. We were the envy of our friends because we had an APARTMENT!! One room, a kitchen, an alcove for the bed, and a shared bathroom!!!

We could never have afforded what you picture!! Seventy years ago today I was preparing for our wedding on Aug. 9.

We were married for 57 years and things improved greatly as the years progressed.

I was born in 1943. It's a look I am familiar with and would prefer to forget.

I think I would prefer accents rather than an entire house done in that style. For instance, in the photos you've posted, I love the (not sure what to call it), settee/loveseat with the built-in table. With that fabulous phone too, of course.

I tend to be a bit of a minimalist and don't like to be surrounded by a lot of things whether they are art work, figurines, pillows, etc. I also like to mix different looks together.

My look is the 1840's the year my house was built so the stuff in it is authentic.

I don't see 1940s when I look at your photos. I just see a lot of collectibles much like in an antique store. It's very cute though. I like old stuff.

Beautiful!

I love it, it feels very home-y. It makes me feel like I'm in my grandparent's house, all safe and loved and warm with my grownups in charge, lol!

Love the phone.

Like Anglophilia, I was born in 1943. But unlike Anglophilia, it's a look I enjoy remembering. My house (probably a similar vintage to Lily's) contains an eclectic mix of antiques, a few of which came from the apartment I grew up in. I had a happy early childhood, and I love having these pieces.

I also love the music of the 1940's. And the 30's.

I have two bookshelves like the one in the first picture :-)

I grew up in the 40's and we had a telephone like that on a seated stand. Our furniture in the dining room was a dark wood probably walnut.

I grew up in the 40's too and can't, for the life of me, remember any phones except for the candlestick phone at grandmothers house. Wonder if we just didn't have them in those apartments. Do remember reading notes from parents.

I love vintage kitchen stuff.....and have a 1949 Maytag range. It is a tank! I love your decorating. Very hard to find pieces like that in such beautiful condition.

Oh, I remember those phones very well! My father worked for Ma Bell and we had phones like that all over our house. This was in the era when most families had 1 phone, even in a very large house. A worker taught my father how to install them - hard wired into the wall. We were the envy of the neighborhood.

For a rental property, I think you'd do better with a more modern appearance and less clutter.

Everybody has their own likes with style.

My dad was a manager for the phone company and we had phones all over the house back in the day when people just had one. And we had a private line when many had party lines. We had so much fun listening in on conversations when I was a kid visiting someone who had a party line. Our phone number was 808.

Post war...never thought of what that looked like. So the Rooster craze began then? Not sure I think they look the same age as the phone and settee. Fun time capsule!!

I like the rooster collection, I have some of the same. Also your seat with the phone is called a "Gossip Bench". I have one and my daughter has one. Mine is not as nice as yours. Nice pictures.

Sue

I could never be comfortable in that environment.

Nooooooo, not my era.....I see lots of cute pieces tho. I luv that you have such a decorating talent!

I love it! Especially the rooster nook.

I was a small child in the 40's, we lived on a farm and were quite poor. We never had any of the lovely things you are displaying, but in later years, as the finances improved, my mother did acquire and display many knick-knacks. And there were always antimacassars on the backs and arms of the couch and any upholstered chairs, and doilies on table tops and shelves. But ours were crocheted. My mother always had some crochet project going when we sat & listened to the radio in the evenings.

Rusty

Since I grew up in the 40's I don't decorate in that era but enjoy what you have done. . We always had a real Christmas tree just loaded with tinsel and fragile glass decorations.

If he's renting, what difference does it make what his decor looks like?

I wondered the same Imhappy&iknowit.

I think it is charming.

It's great to see a house with a strong point of view. Today so many spaces look generic.

Mine is a mix of turn of the century to the 1940's, and I went for a vintage look in the kitchen. Love vintage!

My grandmother had an upholstered phone bench similar to yours. Hers was pink satin brocade, until she had it reupholstered in gold naughahyde in the 1960's.

I passed on a wooden telephone chair 5 years ago. I still regret it.

We don't all want a house full of griege paint and Ikea furniture. How would you know where you were if everything looked the same everywhere you went?

Hey--that's largely my house except we call it Granny Chic or Granny BoHo.

Aha. Thank you Annegriet. So that what I have been into all these years. Looking up granny chic on Internet now.