Styling my existing house to a mid century modern
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Comments (10)If you look up photos of midcentury modern gardens, you'll see their lines mimic the themes of the architecture: spare, clean lines, often angular, emphasis on the horizontal, not a lot of ornamentation. This is great because it also tends to be lower maintenance than more exuberantly planted gardens. You can get away with a lot of lawn and a few evergreens. You have nice trees in place. If you intend to replace shrubs, look for plants with definite structure or shape; almost sculptural in form. In the southwest, cacti and agaves provide this beautifully, but in your climate, think of suitable plants that have similar strong shape characteristics. Color should come from foliage if possible. Nice house! Enjoy!...See MoreFlooring Options - Mid Century Modern Style
Comments (4)Kate Zappa , MCM homes often have Select Grade White Oak in Rift & Quartered grain or American Black Walnut in either Character or Select Grade. Low gloss matte finishes are popular with either option. We do a lot of work on MCM and Contemporary homes. Let me know if you have any other questions. joel@oakandbroad.com...See MoreNeed help turning this hone into a mid century modern styled home
Comments (19)For what it’s worth, a neighbor-friend on a street where I used to live put their house on the market a week or so ago, and I looked at the listing, which included a link to street view. I happen to scroll a few houses further, and I noticed that one of the houses on the street — a colonial like yours — had been ”updated” to have black windows, modern door, plain columns, sort of like picture Maureen posted. It truly looked awful, especially since the surrounding homes all still have a coherency of history about them (houses typically 100 years old on the street, not special, but just typical of an era, with variety of victorians, colonials and 4-squares). I think the people who updated their probably knocked $100k of the value, possibly more. It looked like the house had a fire or a tree fall on it, and they couldn’t afford to rebuild it to its orginal charm. HOWEVER: When I actually lived in that neighborhood I was taking a walk one day, and I passed a small group of people meeting on the sidewalk in front of a 100-yr old colonial house where the BACK SIDE of the house had been completely knocked down and rebuilt in steel and glass. I overheard the architect (who was standing right there) explain to the 2 other people) how when they toured the house, they should notice in particular blah blah — I just stood there, shamelessly eavesdropping, and when they started to walk toward the house I tagged along — I think the architect didn’t quite realize I didn’t know the other 2 women. Anyway, the back end of the house was super contemporary (it faced into a hill, so there was no problem with the all glass walls). Why don’t you leave the front of your house as is and do the back as MCM as you wannabe?...See MoreMake home LESS mid-century modern?
Comments (20)It's true, I struggled with what to call this house at first. Since it was built in the middle of the century and has a few of those elements it seemed like it fit most in mcm....but without the modern part haha! Just literally mid-century. I think you're all right that it's just a ranch house. The builder lived in it for a year or two after he finished it, so I don't think it was designed by an architect. I think he just built what he liked. I guess when we moved in I felt like we could do whatever we wanted to on the inside and it would work, but everyone who comes over tends to throw "mid-century modern" terms around like baseballs so it made me second guess everything! I think the dated...well, everything...makes it hard to envision as anything but 60s/70s vibes. So once we start doing our work it will start to take on a new life....See Moreprinks17
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