Health & Fitness
100 Ways to Screw Up your Mid-Century Modern Home
Here's 20 tips on how to keep your home truly mid-century modern (or keep its original charm — no matter the period).
From Lotta Living, a wonderful thread on ‘How to Screw Up Your Mid-Century Home’ shared by our friend Jerry Gropp. Though I wish I could take credit for this list, it’s great and hilarious list and the house we own has been violated more than once. Yikes! Italicized parenthetical comments expose our shame. Gotta love people with obsession....ummm, passion.
1) Adding a steeper roof on top of your flat or shallow pitched roof. (Ooops! This was done on our house!)
2) Ornate front door. (Etched glass windows)
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3) Adding a second story.
4) Putting in a country kitchen.
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5) Installing a white metal colonial style garage door in place of the original redwood sided door
6) Adding vinyl double hung replacement windows
7) Heading to Home Depot/Lowes with home equity loan money in hand
8 ) Adding inappropriate window i.e., paned windows, decorative shutters, fancy storybook scrollwork/moldings. (Ugh! Again.)
9) Replacing your tar & gravel roof with Spanish tile.
10) Covering your tongue & groove ceiling and wood beams with sheet rock
11) Roof over the atrium and add desirable square footage
12) Putting a white picket OR Wrought Iron fence in the front yard (or ANYWHERE for that matter)
13) One word: Stucco
14) Two words: crown molding!
15) Three words: 70s wall paneling.
16) Carriage lights (Guilty again. Three strikes for us. But we didn’t do it. I swear!)
17) Slathering one color of paint over everything – double points if it’s Peach, Pink or Yellow.
18) Painting over stone
19) Replacing single pane glass in the glass end gables with double paned glass or plywood
20) Vinyl siding
(For the other 80 ways, click here.)