{"id":5440,"date":"2014-10-22T07:28:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T11:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=5440"},"modified":"2014-10-21T09:31:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T13:31:55","slug":"midcentury-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/10\/22\/midcentury-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Midcentury design"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rather boring, boxy remodel was committed on my kitchen, but other than that and most of the flooring, I have a lot of original materials in my house.\u00a0 In fact, I have a lot of original materials outside of my house…like roof timbers, flue tiles and concrete partition blocks.\u00a0 Every day I am more amazed at the fact that these things have hung around for 65 years.<\/p>\n

\"concrete<\/p>\n

Before I met my house I had only ever come into contact with the standard two hole concrete block.\u00a0 So when we started picking up rounded bullnose blocks and skinny partition blocks around the house, I was really intrigued.\u00a0 I found them later in a Portland Cement Association pamphlet.\u00a0 <\/a>It was one of many pamphlets and catalogs for home building from the 40s and 50s, included in the Internet Archive’s Building Technology Heritage Library<\/a> collection.\u00a0 The collection’s also been pretty helpful in identifying the floor in the bedrooms (Armstrong 1949 pattern book<\/a>) and the fixtures in the bathroom.\u00a0 It’s kind of like backwards shopping, looking at old catalogs to find a match for what’s in front of you.<\/p>\n

I dream of finding the floorplans for my house in one of the several house plan catalogs like Practical Homes<\/a>.\u00a0 I love how the post WWII housing boom was partially directed at the do-it-yourself home builder.\u00a0 The Popular Mechanic’s famous Concrete Block House,<\/a> an instruction manual to the home builder, includes a lot of techniques that I think were actually used in my home.<\/p>\n

I wholeheartedly encourage you to peruse the Internet Archive’s Building Technology Heritage Library<\/a> collection yourself.\u00a0 It’s pretty spiffy, but a warning:\u00a0 you may lose several hours of your day to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A rather boring, boxy remodel was committed on my kitchen, but other than that and most of the flooring, I have a lot of original materials in my house.\u00a0 In fact, I have a lot of original materials outside of my house…like roof timbers, flue tiles and concrete partition blocks.\u00a0 Every day I am more… Continue reading Midcentury design<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[213,214],"class_list":["post-5440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-design","tag-the-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5459,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/11\/24\/the-ugliest-spot-in-the-house\/","url_meta":{"origin":5440,"position":0},"title":"The ugliest spot in the house","author":"leems","date":"November 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Every house has them: those rooms that need sprucing, the hole that needs patching.\u00a0 Well, after we finally painted the pokey hallway, my kitchen became the ugliest spot in the house.\u00a0 It's visible from so many places in the house, it's just too hard to ignore. 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