Show us your vintage home!

[marquise]

And my kitchen, which deserves its own post:

[Novella]

Both of those buildings are very cool looking and the decorations are great!

Marquise - is that a poster of a Caillebotte painting in your bedroom? I love his painting of a Paris street on a rainy day.

[artdecodame]

Marquise, your kitchen is so very cute!! It definitely reminds me of the era your apartment was built in.

[Lauren]

Oh my goodness, marquise, your place looks like my dream home! You remind me very much of Amelie!

[ITG]

AG,
Oh cool, you're across from what I call the big Indy cut out statue.

[Sefton]

Swell stuff everyone! Atomic Glee, that's a wonderful building. If you have to live high up that's the way to go. You're doing a nice job with the inside. Living in a historic building sure helps get into the vintage mood.

[Lady Day]

I live in an old building in SF right off Ofarrell and Hyde streets. Ill snap some shots of the foyer later.

My place




and the permanent fixture . . .



LD

[Atomic Glee]

Neat!

What's the piece of furniture you've drafted as the dry bar?

Thanks!

The old wood furniture is from Cargo, a company that made simple, ridiculously sturdy solid wood furniture. That particular piece is a dresser, one of two I have (I use the other for, well, a dresser). Don't know how long they were around, but my family had quite a bit of it in the '80s, and a lot of it ended up with me. It's simple and classic looking, and each piece weighs about six million pounds - I swear, it's hilariously overbuilt stuff. Completely solid, heavy, real wood pieces put together with huge steel bolts. It lasts forever. Heck, my old toy chest was Cargo, and it survived all the abuse I put it through as a kid - and today, I'm using it for a coffee table here in my loft! Just wiped it off, oiled it down, and it was good as new.

Unfortunately, sometime in the '90s the company was bought by Pier 1 (I think), and was reduced to children's-only furniture before being phased out completely.

[Atomic Glee]

AG,
Oh cool, you're across from what I call the big Indy cut out statue.

Yep, the good 'ole Man with Briefcase - one of my favorite bits of public art here in Fort Worth, especially because of both the Indy resemblance and the classic Golden Era imagery of a man in a fedora. I'm looking it at right now out my living room window as I type this. Coolness.

[Atomic Glee]

Swell stuff everyone! Atomic Glee, that's a wonderful building. If you have to live high up that's the way to go. You're doing a nice job with the inside. Living in a historic building sure helps get into the vintage mood.

Thanks! It's cool - I especially love learning about the historical leftovers in the building from the maintenance man. He's an older man familiar with every square inch of the building, and can identify which parts in the building's current configuration used to be offices, restrooms, etc. It's fun.

Fort Worth has a lot of classic buildings in and near downtown being used for residential now. Across the street from me is the Neil P. Anderson building, a 1921 office building that's just re-opened as condos:



Our old Sanger department store building is now loft apartments:



The old 1928 Montgomery Ward building is getting loft condos:



The Art Deco Kress five & dime store building is becoming lofts:



Here, our Flatiron Building from 1907 sits next to the Houston Place building from the '20s on the right, both of which are now used for residential - and, incidentally, this is across the street from the Peters Brothers hat shop:



Our old '30s Art Deco train station is now lofts (and still a train station as well):



Here's the Forest Park apartments, using an old '20s building that was allegedly built for the mistresses of visiting out-of-town cattle & oil barons: