1910s dining room

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Here is the last of the illustrations from the April 1912 issue of the Ladies' Home Journal, "a good suggestion for the furnishing of the dining-room". This room carries over the green, gold, and brown shades of the living room. It's interesting that the chairs are not left at the table but are stored out of the way in the corners of the room. Another nice touch are the gold curtains at the door dividing the rooms.

From a Wallpaper Guild ad in the November 1924 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine. My vintage website is at: www.vintage123.com

Escaping the war in Europe, Helena Rubinstein opened her first salon in the United States in 1915

Picture from the Sears 1912 Modern Homes catalog.

The Wallpaper Manufacturers Association managed to publish some consistently attractive advertisements during the 1920s. Most were suitable for Colonial Revival style home and featured toile patterns.

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Rare kitchen interior from House Beautiful showing the built-ins. Typically, kitchens were considered work rooms and not particularly photogenic. According to the text, as long as there was room for the range, kitchen table, and sink with its counters, there was no reason all the walls should not be storage cabinets. Source: House Beautiful From the Antique Home Style collection.

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While these days we don't think twice about ordering all kinds of things online, with giants like Amazon offering pretty much anything you could possibly imagine shipped to your doorstep, the mail-order concept goes back much further than you might think, and you could even get an entire house delivered by mail.