1940s home

From interior design trends to new technology and architecture, see how our home décor has changed over the decades.

I showcase 8 distinct looks popular in 1940s interior design. Furniture, colors & decor inside 1940s homes were sunny, patriotic, 'sanitary' & more.

1940's House Dining room | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Hughenden Manor

This week we’re talking about home design trends over the years, which ones have stuck and which have totally faded, and how long trends last.

Probably more than any other era in the 1940s we have a big divide between the illustrated ideal kitchens and what people really had. For the first five years of the decade the Second World War mea…

Laura Blackstock, a painter, and her architect husband, Joel, bought their 1940s cottage 22 years ago and have since carefully crafted a serene home.

This gallery documents Joanna Francis's 1940s home at Burton Stather near Scunthorpe. Life on the home front during the 1940s was very different to today's modern world. Until war broke out in September 1939, most women did not work outside the home. Many homes did not have running water in the house, water was carried in buckets from an outside well, or perhaps some were lucky enough to have a pump inside. To produce hot water it would be heated on top of a stove, often wood burning. That…

Better Homes and Gardens Magazine October 1941

These 1941 interiors from Hazel Dell Brown of Armstrong Floors are beautifully designed and full of great decorating and color combination ideas.

Name: Joanne O’Callaghan Location: Melbourne, Australia Size: 510 square feet Years owned: 16 years Joanne recently renovated this late-1940s Art Deco apartment in East Melbourne, Australia. The entire place is full of light and charm, but the apartment’s living and dining space, called the “blue room,” is a particular jewel: It features Art Deco cornices, a tiered mirror above the original fireplace and a large framed window.

Take a tour of Dani Colding of @thecoldcraftsman's dreamy 1940's bungalow.

Here's a look at the renovation of our 1940s cottage in North Carolina (including before & afters!) #midcenturymodern #homedecor #westelm #eames #vintagebarcart #fiddleleaffig #anthropologie

I have a surprise for you. My husband and I took a trip to a special place that I have been intending to go to for quite sometime. I had been there several years ago but I wanted to go aga

Wright Museum of WWII, Wolfeboro Picture: 1940s living room - Check out Tripadvisor members' 249 candid photos and videos of Wright Museum of WWII