I've never been one to quickly embrace current trends in fashion, or even music. But from a very early age, I embraced things that became wonderfully awesome before my time, from Victorian architecture to Tie Dye T-shirts.
At age 10 I owned The Beatles greatest hits on cassette and subscribed to Architectural Digest. I collected almost everything because I saved almost everything. Still tucked away in the top cabinet of my parents' kitchen is a stash of some of my childhood treasures like cardboard McDonald's Happy Meal boxes, a 1986 Barnum and Bailey circus program, and a pair of red and white Coca-Cola sunglasses. I thought, and perhaps was repeatedly told by my family of pack-rats, that "one day it all might be worth something."
When I found out my dad had no clue what happend to his baseball cards from his youth and that my mom threw away her Monterey Pop Festival poster, I wanted to cry. Why hadn't they kept those things for their future child--ME? So, I've held on to my Jose Canseco MVP card for all these years--just in case.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I've always been a nostalgic person. My infatuation with old things started with antique furniture, and I've been able to amass some old, not necessarily valuable (yet) family furniture pieces over the years. Three years ago, my husband and I purchased our first home, a brick ranch built in 1958. Since then, I've learned to appreciate homes and furnishings of this post-war era--the clean and simple lines, the space-age shapes, the morale-boosting colors of turquoise and pink.
I've found a new fascination for all things "Midcentury Modern."
So with this admiration for modern design and deep concern for protecting the valued objects and structures of our past, or our granparents' past, I have started this blog, Mod Room, to share what I love with you. Although I've been slow to embrace this blogging "trend," I feel now is the time to step into the Mod Room...shall we?
