My Vintage Christmas

Hi, my living room is starting to come together for Christmas. The living room is styled Mid Century and I have SO much fun adding to it. I have several 1950's TV lamps and they are part of the Christmas action.

"Nordic" Vintage coffee set

 Aren't these cute! I picked these up at the local antique place, 22nd Street Antiques. At $16.00 I thought the price was alright. The pattern is neato! Green and blue and little sqwiggelies . Bright and cheery is what caught my eye.

Thrifting Vintage Patterned Glasses

 Last week I found a full dinner service for eight from the 1970's. We had a fun dinner party too. I've been looking for a real kitsch set of drinking glasses to go with the dishes..... I've found them.

Mid Century TV Lamps

My 1950's Vintage Siamese Cat TV Lamp

I got a cool cat from my husband for Christmas, granted I found it but he wanted to see it and bought it. It's a Kron brand, TV Lamp. The first one we'd seen was in a book all about vintage TV lamps. Couldn't believe we found one. Now we know they were the most popular creation ever made from it's factory in Texas.

Pyrex Pink and Turquoise Princess Bowl Sets

Mid Century Vintage......... 

I've been collecting the blue for a little while...but I came across the pink this week!

Too Cool to collect dust

 

 If you've got it.....use it! :)   Too pretty to collect dust. I love cooking with my Pyrex.

Eames Herman Miller Mid Century Style Lounge Chair

Holy Grail of Craigslist shopping!

I found a vintage, cira 1970's--Eames Herman Miller Lounge Chair. 

If you shop for mid century items....you can imagine my elation!

Retro Living Room at Christmas Time

Wow! the holidays can be a rush! No time to blog, but we finished our mid century living room!

We had a ball decorating our living room during the Christmas season. It was an empty room, I started just before Halloween, and painted the room light avocado. Halloween night the couches arrived from Overstock. After that piece by piece we built a mid century style room. Just like when we were kids.

This post has LOTS of photos, to see them all and THE LAMP CAT click on the page break below.

My Atomic Lamps & Mid Century Living Room

Oh My Gosh! I just can't believe I own these lamps! They've both got the spaghetti finish shades. The large one in a gold spaghetti and the little table top lamp in the black spaghetti . $45.00 and $30 for the lamps, and $14.00 for the gold shade. Wow!

Atomic style came out after 1940's and went into the mid 60's with the worlds first satellite and rockets and talk about actually going into outer space. I bought these at Copper Country Antiques and 22nd Street Antique Mall right here in Tucson.