1940 decor interior design

Better Homes and Gardens has covered interior design since the dawn of the Jazz Age. Join us as we take a decade-by-decade look back through the furniture, colors, and styles that filled our homes over the past century, along with the people and events that drove the designs of our lives.

This Armstrong interior appeared in Ladies Home Journal. A similar color scheme, but in a traditional style, appeared at about the same time.

We've been shopping to recreate this look from our archive

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Hannah Hall, from Nottingham, bought a 1920s-era house in 2016 and decided to unearth its old charm, after copping a working 1940s gas cooker for £16 on eBay.

For some people, the glam and luxuriousness of the 50s have an aspirational appeal, one that can easily be replicated in the home. Of course, you don’t want your home to look old-fashioned, so here are a few tips on how you can take the very best of 50s style and replicate it in your look. Updating

Early American or traditional style decorating was probably more popular at the time than the modern design that we like to think of now as representing Mid Century design. This Armstrong ad appeared in Ladies Home Journal.

We take a look at room full of 1940s decor designed by Hazel Dell Brown, one of the most surprisingly influential designers in midcentury America!