1918ColonialRevival wrote:The "faux tile" was big in the 1920s and early '30s. You are absolutely correct that it was a less expensive alternative to tile. Through research, we discovered our kitchen underwent its first remodel in 1929 and was outfitted with it.
It sounds like you are digging through the years with the paint layers. The pink became popular in the Eisenhower era and continued into the early '60s. One of our bathrooms was re-done in Pepto-Bismol pink tile (even on the ceiling) around 1955. Before that, sea-foam green was the color of the '40s and early '50s.
Oh neat! I will try to look into the faux tile when I can.
I've read about "Mamie" pink before, so I wasn't too surprised to find some pink paint. The two different shade layers, though, was interesting to me.
It's funny, because when I think of sea-foam green, I think of the much lighter variant that was huge in the late 80s/early 90s. I found an interesting info bit in a footnote about using green in general during the 30s on Patrick Baty's blog.
This seems to be a hangover from Goethe, who said of Green:
“If yellow and blue, which we consider as the most fundamental and simple colours, are united as they first appear, in the first state of their action, the colour which we call green is the result.
The eye experiences a distinctly grateful impression from this colour. If the two elementary colours are mixed in perfect equality so that neither predominates, the eye and the mind repose on the result of this junction as upon a simple colour. The beholder has neither the wish nor the power to imagine a state beyond it. Hence for rooms to live in constantly, the green colour is most generally selected”. (Goethe’s Theory of Colours. Translated by Charles Lock Eastlake. 1840. 316.)
Back to the apartment soon to get the last bit of the stove. Sean did a run of some general stuff earlier. We might do one more run before it gets dark, but I keep reminding him that I'd really like to finish cleaning before we move anything else over. We're running out of floor space in the dining room again, and there's no room in the kitchen for boxes at all right now.
With this weather, we decided it wasn't worth going back--two blocks' walk or not! Soup was perfect, both with the weather, and our current lack of fridge. We watched the first two episodes of "Feud" while happily eating our soup and crackers.
I just realized that some folks might not know about the sorts of husbands I was referring to, though, which certainly can cause such confusions. (FWIW, my husband was a freebie. His family never asked for whatever the male equivalent of a dowry is called, if such a word even exists!)