vintage furniture Archives

Wall to Wall Carpet is back with Homes with Max

41 min readIf you are not already a huge fan of the Instagram account, Homes with Max, I’m sorry to be the one to tell you that you’ve been doing your algorithm wrong. Let’s fix it.

For today, strap in while Max shares his vintage villain origin story, his favorite features of a time capsule house, and makes such a convincing case for bringing back wall to wall carpet that I kind of end up sold.

I want you to tell me if he’s persuaded you, too!

I know you’ll love today’s chat because I loved recording it. And I know that you, like me, love little more than nerding out over details with a fellow mid-century superfan.

Also, he’s getting back into the business of design advice. So if you need some assistance in re-crafting a perfect MCM time capsule of your own … shoot him a DM!

A flipped house is not a final answer with Un.flipping

55 min readI was thrilled to chat with Dana Jenkins and Colin Davis of the Instagram account @un.flipping,(who may have coined the phrase!) and have blown up online by sharing their five-year journey to add the soul back into their thoroughly flipped mid-century home.

We all know the story. You find an MCM ranch in your perfect neighborhood, only to click further into the listing to discover a flipper has been there first. They’ve ripped out the character and replaced it with trendy, generic finishes.

It’s a tragedy…(well, to us it is).

And many mid-century lovers believe it’s also the final answer for the home. Remodeling something that has been “updated” is wasteful, isn’t it? And it’s almost impossible to undo the damage to original finishes or find replacements for pieces that ended up in the dumpster.