Anyone like Mid Century Modern homes? *LINK*

Reminds me of ‘60s movies

A.J. Hamler

I kept expecting to see Doris Day and Rock Hudson in the photos.

Love it..

David Weaver

..grew up in the 70s and 80s (born mid 70s, but watching a movie like close encounters of the third kind reminds me of the stuff that was around when I was a kid - the wagon wheel lamps, barrel end tables, bold but kind of ugly now wallpaper).

Lots of 60s-ish stuff still around. I don't care at all for industrial design era furniture, but love the houses. Couldn't explain it.

Figuring that a house like that plays better in california with modern glass where the air leaks aren't quite as big of a deal. My house is smaller than that one by a little, but it would feel like it is by a lot (1550 square feet on the main floor) because of the way the space is laid out on that one.

That one reminds me of a youtube channel that I used to subscribe with. A younger fellow with a love of the 1960s. He ended up buying a house somewhat like that where the residents had kept everything original with no updates. His whole house tour video is gone for some reason (maybe privacy), but he has a shot of the interior around Christmas:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0-FPx7FgRM

What I remember of it is that it's open like the layout of the house you showed, lots of class, and the bedrooms go off back in a wing. Compared to a rectangular house, it seems spacious because everything isn't arranged in a box, and it has lots of what my grandmother would've called "picture windows" (my grandmother had a similar style house - her windows are real bird killers).

Thanks for the memories. Always wondered how a house like that would work out for HVAC if the owners liked to have every corner fully heated and cooled. Grandmothers' HVAC costs were high, aided by her desire to have the temp set at 80 in the winter, and about the same in the summer (no big deal then). The windows were single glass, and the areas around them cool, but you only need a light in the house at night.

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John McGaw

I do like MCM houses. Well, at least some of them. The one shown leaves me a bit cold although I would be hard pressed to define exactly what it seems to be lacking.

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Dick Coers

We'll be taking out the overgrown bushes blocking the front as soon as the heat index goes under 100. That'll help the street appeal. The house is really special at night when that front hall is lit up. It's the perfect place for an aluminum Christmas tree with a rotating colored light on it!

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TomD

That is great. So much of the historic buildings of that period have been torn down, or renoed to destruction.

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TomD

I like MCM furniture also, and it seems odd it has not caught on much in the woodworking field, though a number of oversimplified books have come out. To some extent it is overly industrial compared to what people seem to prefer to build, but it could also be pretty interesting as it draws on skill like cabinetmaking and boatbuilding that are well distributed. And it is popular to the extent that it tends to get gobbled up when it comes on the second hand market, or when people make it online for sale. But there has always been a disconnect between what woodworkers like, and what the broader market wants. And it is not merely a disconnect along quality lines which is pretty variable with home shop work being terrible right through to the higher standard of what one sees, if not what is possible.

Frid worked in MCM style, as did Maloof, and doubtless many others, but they pushed it aside by the time their more individual styles come to the forefront. I think that the one man shops often pushed the solid wood aspect, which then allows more organic forms than were typical in MCM furniture.

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Larry Edinger

Wow My Parents had a 1963 Rambler Classic station wagon Same color!

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Dick Coers

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Mark Nowicki

My mother had a beautiful,mostly original, Mid Century Modern that she sold two years ago. I would have been happy to live there except it was in a part of Montreal I detest with a passion.

It only had one of the original doors replaced by a renovator who, of course had to use some pre-painted MDF crap in a house that did not have a single piece of molding, giving it that CelineDion/FrenchWhorehouse look.

I used to be a window/door subcontractor and would get sick when the job called for replacement of original stained glass transoms with some PVC crap.

Funny thing, the customers were not not grateful when I would point out the poor quality of the replacement.

I went through a lot of General Contractors.