Author: Bjorn
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Dispatches from the Shelf: Someone Else Paid Retail
This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend pieces we would put in our own homes. The essay bit The best mid-century furniture in America is not in a store. It is in somebody’s apartment, lightly scuffed, about to…
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Floating Bathroom Vanities With Mid-Century Lines: Seven Picks Under $600
Seven floating and small-space bathroom vanities with mid-century geometry, most under $400, plus the wide lighted medicine cabinet that finishes the wall.
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The Mid-Century Kitchen Backsplash: Six Panels That Beat the Tile Aisle
Six glue-up panels and metal rolls that give a kitchen its mid-century wall back: herringbone, hex, argyle diamonds, hammered tin, and a backsplash that glows.
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Dispatches from the Shelf: Look Up
Our editors independently select every product we feature. When you buy through our links, Oak Cliff Design may earn a commission at no cost to you. How we’re supported The fifth wall Stand in a 1958 ranch and look up: beams, planking, warm wood doing quiet work overhead. Stand in a new apartment and look…
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The Fifth Wall: Bringing a Mid-Century Ceiling Back
Flat white drywall was never the plan. How faux wood beams and planks bring the post-and-beam ceiling back for a few hundred dollars and a Saturday.
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Dispatches from the Shelf: The Wood Decides
This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend pieces we would put in our own homes. The wood decides Every mid-century room makes one decision before all the others, and most people make it by accident. The wood. Teak…
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The Best Murphy Beds and Wall Beds for Small Mid-Century Spaces
Six Murphy beds, wall beds, and sofa beds that turn one room into two, from clean-lined queen cabinets to a revolving TV bookshelf bed.
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Dispatches from the Shelf: Teak Forgives
This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend pieces we would put in our own homes. Teak is the reason so much mid-century furniture is still around to argue over. The oils that made it a shipbuilder’s wood also…
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The 5 Best Mid-Century Office Chairs Under $300
Five mid-century office chairs under $300 that still swivel, roll, and adjust, from a solid wood rocker to an armless chair for small rooms.
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The 6 Best Mid-Century Dressers Under $600
Six mid-century dressers under $600 with the proportions that matter: lowboys, walnut finishes, and fluted fronts, most under $350.