My Atomic Powder Room

by | Apr 22, 2014 | Uncategorized | 21 comments

Pink bathrooms. I love them all. I wish I could save every pink bathroom in America. I eschew the fools who decimate and destroy old bathrooms. For one, it violates the First Commandment of Old House ownership:  “Thou shalt not destroy good old work.”...

My Perfect Atomic Kitchen

by | Jan 29, 2014 | Uncategorized | 23 comments

It started with an old dinner plate. Sometime in the 1950s, my creative, colorful, California-loving mother purchased Gladding McBean Franciscan dinnerware with an “Atomic” starburst pattern. My brothers and I grew up eating breakfast, lunch and dinner off...