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By the 1930's linoleum was the floor covering most often chosen and recommended. Even in the 1920's linoleum was the flooring of choice if you could afford it. If not, you generally covered your kitchen floor with oilcloth.
Here's an ad from 1938. Most of the pics of 30's lino we see today tend to look rather busy, but compare this to the picture of the green kitchen and you'll see there was a wide choice of styles.
You can see several pages of Jane Powell's book - Linoleum on Google Books. I have a copy, and love looking at the patterns used over the decades.
Like that brown color linoleum but I was under the impression that linoleum is no longer made.
Not sure how retro the new linoleums are. If you search you can find it, sometimes old rolls are available too.
I like the idea that it's durable and Green! Never knew that. I do like the old look though and I'm wondering where to get the old rolls or if any mantufacturer is going to be making them in traditional pasterns.
I don't think houses have to necessarily be "Old" or "New." I love old houses but I really love when people take old houses and update them - while still keeping some flare and character from the original house. I don't think that you always have to go with the thought process of "what would this house have had at the time it was built."
I think it is OK to do with material OR pattern/color that matches a house's time frame when doing a revnovation but not necessarily material AND pattern/color if that makes sense. I think the best renovations of old houses are done when the home owner or designer nods/hints at the house's history while making some small contemporary twists vs continually keeping a house stuck in the era it was built.
Kind of like the big mid-century modern fascination over the past decade. Taking old designs and updating them slightly.
Linoleum (Marmoleum Forbo) would be a perfect, comfortable and period appropriate flooring for a kitchen in a 1938 house, much more so than wood, tile or God forbid- sheet vinyl. Instead of a busy (and easily outdated) pattern, a simple bold color with a little bit of flecking and a border or banding would be sharp!
We had a Mc Mansion during a lapse of sanity in the early 2000s. We are fine now, thank you and back to loving and owning old homes. And living in them.
In the New House we had thw wood floors, granite cherry and stainless. We don't want anything that even riminds us of that anymore.
LOL! I'm with ya on that!
My vote goes to linoleum. It's beautiful, durable, and warm on the feet. Plus things are less likely to break on linoleum than on ceramic or porcelain tile.
My vote goes to linoleum. It's beautiful, durable, and warm on the feet. Plus things are less likely to break on linoleum than on ceramic or porcelain tile.
Looking to re-do a badly updated kitchen in a Craftsman style home. The current floor is 80s ish. We wnat tpo get away from a hard new look and have the floor look as though it's been there a while so black and white tiles might look too contemporary. We are talking about black and white large tiles. 20-50s look.
This is a link to a place with many subpages, but the entire site seems to be devoted to the craftsman style. As a child one of my father's brothers lived in the Roycroft Inn in East Aurora, and I used to be fascinated with the place when we visited. Then we went on vacation back to Canada (where my mother had come from), and, wow!, the time-worn huge old inn we stayed in had been built in the same era and looked rather like a run-down Roycroft.
I have renovated and built a few times in recent decades. I have lived in areas where wood flooring is unusual and tile and stone are standard. Speaking for myself, I would look for something that would accomodate that style, even if it was not truly contemporary with it, but it would have to be suitable to go with black grouting. Never again do I want the job of scrubbing white, or pale, grouting.
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Here is a picture of our kitchen.
