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- Wed Apr 23, 2014 6:53 am
- Forum: Roadside Rambling
- Topic: Eye-candy of The Caribbean Motel, Wildwood, NJ
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1857
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:14 pm
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Real Estate
- Topic: Scarborough, Ont. Atomic Playhouse backsplit for sale
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1460
New, even lower price
OK people,
We've dropped the price again, from $359,900 to $349,900. If you're in the market for a swanky midmod house in the Toronto area, but can't afford Don Mills, then this is your ticket. Hey, we'll even negotiate the basement tiki bar!
We've dropped the price again, from $359,900 to $349,900. If you're in the market for a swanky midmod house in the Toronto area, but can't afford Don Mills, then this is your ticket. Hey, we'll even negotiate the basement tiki bar!
- Tue Oct 19, 2010 12:28 pm
- Forum: Roadside Rambling
- Topic: Visiting Toronto
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1304
Come to Leslieville while you're in town!
Check out Leslieville (Queen St. East between Carlaw & Jones) while you're in town, and come by my store, Ethel - 20th Century Living to say "hi"! http://ethel20thcenturyliving.blogspot.com/ http://www.ethel20thcenturyliving.com/ There's a few other midcentury modern stores in the neig...
- Sun Oct 17, 2010 9:10 am
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Real Estate
- Topic: Scarborough, Ont. Atomic Playhouse backsplit for sale
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1460
New low price on the Atomic Playhouse
New listing and new lower price on our house.
http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetails.a ... =336985259
Come on, you know you want it!
http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetails.a ... =336985259
Come on, you know you want it!
- Wed Sep 29, 2010 9:54 am
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Real Estate
- Topic: Scarborough, Ont. Atomic Playhouse backsplit for sale
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1460
- Thu Sep 23, 2010 7:53 am
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Real Estate
- Topic: Scarborough, Ont. Atomic Playhouse backsplit for sale
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1460
Even more photos of the Atomic Playhouse, Scarborough ON
OK, here's more information on our Atomic Playhouse.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-est ... le1693890/
A column written by my hubby (T.O.MidMod) on leaving the 'burbs.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-est ... le1693890/
A column written by my hubby (T.O.MidMod) on leaving the 'burbs.
- Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:55 am
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Real Estate
- Topic: Scarborough, Ont. Atomic Playhouse backsplit for sale
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1460
More on our Atomic Playhouse in Scarborough, On.
Here's the links to the Apartment Therapy two part house tour. http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago/house-tours/template-title-house-tourshauntelle-daves-controlled-kitsch-122943 http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago/shauntelle-daves-controlled-kitsch-part-iihouse-tour-122944 It was right about...
- Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:43 am
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Real Estate
- Topic: Scarborough, Ont. Atomic Playhouse backsplit for sale
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1460
Scarborough, Ont. Atomic Playhouse backsplit for sale
Some of you may be familiar with our Atomic Playhouse, way up here in the Great White North. Our house has been featured on Apartment Therapy (two part house tour) and the Globe and Mail real estate section (Canada's national newspaper) Well, we've decided to downsize and move back downtown so our b...
- Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:38 pm
- Forum: Modern Collectibles and Furniture
- Topic: Help identifying wild stretched 60s chair
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1430
Help identifying wild stretched 60s chair
Hey LLers, Our MCM knowledge and power is vast when we work together. Here's a kookie chair we picked up at a thrift shop in Toronto (where we live) and we know, we just KNOW we've seen it before. Anyone know the manufacturer/designer or anything else about it? Thanks! Dave & Shauntelle http://w...
- Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:28 pm
- Forum: Modern Collectibles and Furniture
- Topic: Anyone ever heard of "Ligna" chairs?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 458
Anyone ever heard of "Ligna" chairs?
Just picked this pair of chairs up last night and knew right away that they were somethin' special. As far as we can tell they're from Ligna (see stamp) from Czechoslovakia, but I can't find any more info on them. Anyone out there recognize them? Or point us to a website? We know they're quite old f...
- Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:15 am
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Houses and Homes
- Topic: Built-ins Post Your Pics.
- Replies: 47
- Views: 2179
- Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:28 am
- Forum: Everything Else and the Kitchen Sink
- Topic: Is there a certain smell that takes you back?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1674
I work at a radio station and recently we had a bunch of small cans of Play-Doh come in for a promotion (not sure what the promotion was, since I work in a different department). I opened one for fun to mess around with it, but before I could even take the stuff out, I was instantly transported back...
- Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:45 am
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Houses and Homes
- Topic: Advice on digging out buried pool?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1015
Advice on digging out buried pool?
So we've been in our house for almost three years and enjoying every minute of it (check out the houseblog http://atomicplayhouse.blogspot.com) HOWEVER, we are haunted by the fact that theres a buried swimming pool in our backyard and now that it's getting to be nice and summery out there, we can't ...
- Sun May 25, 2008 8:33 pm
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Houses and Homes
- Topic: Striated Plywood - Help
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1198
Well, I just wanted to say thanks (as usual) to all the Lotta Livin' forumers for filling me in on an obscure piece of MCM trivia that I wouldn't have known otherwise. My particular model in a Toronto subdivision of 8 - 10 house types (all designed by one architect and built between 1959 - 61) has a...
- Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:02 am
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Houses and Homes
- Topic: MCM Bathroom Photos
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1621
- Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:01 am
- Forum: Roadside Rambling
- Topic: Toronto GTA area MCM areas
- Replies: 1
- Views: 373
Hey rmjeff, I live in Toronto and write a newspaper column which frequently deals with MCM (because I'm obsessed with it). I live in a pretty cool 'hood that's a 10 minute drive from DM and it's about 60% of the price. All the houses were designed by one architect and built between 1959 and 1962. Th...
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:58 am
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Houses and Homes
- Topic: New Krisel Homes?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 917
Hey guys. I don't post much but I lurk all the time :oops: Anyhow, I'm an architecture writer in Toronto, Canada and a big-time midcentury modern fan. Anyhow, to make a long story short, when the wife and I were in Palm Springs in August, we officially toured the first completed Krisel house. The LA...
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:02 am
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Real Estate
- Topic: MCM cities?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7785
- Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:09 pm
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Houses and Homes
- Topic: MCM Fireplace (photos, information, materials, etc...)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1897
I don't know if they make this anymore, but our fireplace is made from what I consider to be one of the Googie-est of all materials: flagcrete! Basically fake flagstone rocks made from pouring concrete into moulds and then painting them to look like rock after the fact. Used on many of the Googie-ty...
- Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:02 am
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Houses and Homes
- Topic: Show us your mod home office
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3446
Here's a link to photos of our home office. It's the smallest bedroom in our 1300 sq. ft. home and we hung grasscloth on the walls (good marriage test!) and found the perfect-sized shelf at Ikea (it's also NOT chipboard, which I detest) to put all our design books and vintage bowling trophies (and B...
- Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:06 pm
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Houses and Homes
- Topic: Show us your modern christmas tree!
- Replies: 83
- Views: 16129
- Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:59 pm
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Houses and Homes
- Topic: Show us your modern christmas tree!
- Replies: 83
- Views: 16129
- Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:19 pm
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Houses and Homes
- Topic: Toronto - Interior decorator for MCM and modernism!?!?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 620
- Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:28 pm
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Houses and Homes
- Topic: newbie saying hello ... and ? about windows
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2363
Hey myronx19, I'm a newspaper columnist here in Toronto who is obsessed with midcentury modern architecture. In fact, it's what I write about 75% of the time, and in the 3+ years I've been writing (2 years as a weekly feature) I've met tons of architects in town that either built the Toronto of the ...
- Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:46 pm
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Houses and Homes
- Topic: Our New MCM house in Toronto (pics)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1517
r'n'r: Thanks! It will be a long road but we think it's all worth it. Saving this house is a lot like rescuing furniture from thrift stores. We feel like we are, in our own small way, making the world a slightly better place by making it just a little more midcentury modern. Yes, the saucer-shaped l...
- Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:57 pm
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Houses and Homes
- Topic: Our New MCM house in Toronto (pics)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1517
Our New MCM house in Toronto (pics)
Hi there, We just bought a great 3 bedroom (they're small, however) MCM home in Toronto with quite a few original details (like that fantastic dining room fixture!) as well as the unfortunate 1980's kitchen and bathroom reno. House is a backsplit and was built in 1959/60 by a local homebuilding comp...
- Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:49 pm
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Houses and Homes
- Topic: Mid Century Modern Homes in Toronto Area
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1724
I just bought a house in Midland Park...in Don Mills, this house would have been at least a half million. In beautiful Scarborough (7 kilometers away or 4 miles for all you Americans) it only cost me $285,000! Needs a bit of restoration and TLC but my wife and I are up for the challenge! I'll post p...
- Fri Aug 05, 2005 7:32 am
- Forum: Mid Century Modern Houses and Homes
- Topic: EICHLERS On Their Way To The National Register!!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2754
Very cool congratulations to you all from Toronto, Canada. I'm going to be in L.A. on Thursday August 18th and I'll be driving around to see (and take pictures of) my first ever Eichler neighbourhood, the Balboa Highlands, so I can write about it for my newspaper column in The Globe and Mail (see ht...
- Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:34 am
- Forum: Roadside Rambling
- Topic: One full day in L.A.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1963
- Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:38 am
- Forum: Roadside Rambling
- Topic: One full day in L.A.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1963
One full day in L.A.
Hi everyone, I'm a journalist/radio producer in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (hence the T.O. handle which you probably thought to mean Thousand Oaks) and I write about midcentury modernism (most of the time) for a major newspaper, The Globe and Mail (there's also something I wrote on Wildwood posted her...