1930s house interior

[Warden]

I remenber when staying at my Grandparents house it was a treat if you could take some of the coals from the main fire up at night into the bedroom fireplace. The bedroom fire place I don't think was ever properly lit.

 

[Stray Cat]

The bedroom fire place I don't think was ever properly lit.

Well, truthfully: it's way too expensive and energy-wasteful to lit the fireplace all over the place. I know my grandpa, when he was a kid, used to warm up couple of bricks, and bring those into the bedroom before going to bed. (hot water bottle works magic, as well)

 

[vintageTink]

Love them. I would decorate a house like these.

 

[W-D Forties]

Harry and Edna - at my dad's house, which is a late 20's/early 30's semi, he still had the original vathroom. It looked remarlably like the one in your picture with a mixture of tiles around faux vittrous glass panels. The panels were a swirly pale green and the tiles where black and white. It still had the original bath suite too.

 

[fashion frank]

Exciting to plan
The blue nursery

This makes me think of that tune popular in the 30's entitled " my blue heaven"

All the Best ,Fashion Frank

 

[Stray Cat]

This makes me think of that tune popular in the 30's entitled " my blue heaven"

Oh, you've reminded me, too:

[video=youtube;5w-_xbBmXJ4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w-_xbBmXJ4[/video]

 

[vitanola]

Or this early Rogers and Hart ditty.

I love the slanted rhyme scheme.

VERSE 1

All my future plans,
Dear, will suit your plans.
Read the little blueprints.
Here's your mother's room.
Here's your brother's room.
On the wall are two prints.
Here's the kiddies' room,
Here's the biddy's room,
Here's a pantry lined with shelves, dear.
Here I've planned for us
Something grand for us,
Where we two can be ourselves, dear.

REFRAIN

We'll have a blue room,
A new room,
For two room,
Where ev'ry day's a holiday
Because you're married to me.
Not like a ballroom,
A small room,
A hall room,
Where I can smoke my pipe away
With your wee head upon my knee.
We will thrive on,
Keep alive on,
Just nothing but kisses,
With Mister and Missus
On little blue chairs.
You sew your trousseau,
And Robinson Crusoe
Is not so far from worldly cares
As our blue room far away upstairs.

VERSE 2

From all visitors
And inquisitors
We'll keep our apartment.
I won 't change your plans-
You arrange your plans
Just the way your heart meant.
Here we'll be ourselves
And we'll see ourselves
Doing all the things we're scheming.
Here's a certain place,
Cretonne curtain place,
Where no one can see us dreaming.

REPEAT REFRAIN

 

[Tux Toledo]

Thanks for posting - those are great!

 

[Miss Slapstick]

A cuckoo clock ! I love those, have one above my radio. My great grandmother gave it to me when I was a child

 

[Stray Cat]

Your cuckoo-clock is lovely, Miss Slapstick! :thumb:

 

[Giftmacher]

Nice, could come in handy!