1940s Retro Cottage Getaway | Before & After | Etsy
1940s Retro Cottage Getaway | Before & After | Etsy
Tina Spangler uprooted herself from her New York City apartment and lifestyle for the woods of upstate New York where she renovated a 1950s cabin into a vintage cottage. She found her home in a forgotten community in Narrowsburg, NY called Luxton Lake. Once a thriving vacation destination for African-American New Yorkers the area was mostly abandoned in the 1970’s when the damn was removed and the lake was drained. Tina found a dilapidated 1950’s cabin in foreclosure and with very little funds, decided to take the leap and fix it up in her favorite vintage style from the 1940s. See her before and after home design and get inspired by her unique retro vintage style!
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1940s Retro Cottage Getaway | Before & After | Etsy
For the last few years I come back every couple months to watch this. It’s really refreshing to see someone who doesn’t have to have their vintage perfect and always matching in era. ❤️ I love this house.
…Your goal was to NOT have a Perfect House!!?!.🤔… But You DO!!!!…🏡❤
I love the paintings. I cannot find any information on Joseph Unger.
Love the homey feel and charm of this well loved home!☀️☀️☀️
I Love your style. Total Simplcity & Acceptance. And I Love your home. Thank you for sharing.
Love the refrigerator.
Beautiful i love it so much
Beautiful home. My nephew just inherited my grandmother’s 1940’s bungalow home in South Carolina and your home reminds me of the style and decor of the era. Simple, cozy, vintage, functional and elegant.
Gorgeous. But God help anyone who ever tried to share a home with her.
This is my first time seeing this video with it being a 2009 yr….I grew u in the 70s as a kid my granny and mother lived at those old thrift stores collecting everything just beautiful…we have good stuff today too but …I love to go back sometimes this video really inspires me …Thanks for sharing…
Wonderful decor my home is from tge 1950s kitchen is notty pine bathroom is yellow and green tile.
It looks like the houses in the mountains of Puerto Rico
This house makes me so excited to start collecting vintage things ❤️
Charming, homey, attractive, beautiful. I would be very comfy there. Tina, you’ve freed me up even further to do my own thing. Thank you for sharing. Love from San Diego, CA.
…yes…nice…
What a nice program, very pleasant.
Wow wow wow! What a great place to live in! I am almost jealous!! I admire your attitude to life and your house. Maybe an update soon or some more details off the beautiful objects you have? Would be nice! Take care and enjoy !!!
Love it dear! You have done a wonderful representation of your favorite era! Mine too! I think I am reincarnated from that time period! Vintage ANYTHING is my great passion! And yes the appliances never fie ! I have a 1956 GE range hat has chrome handles!!and works wonderful!Good Luck in your beautiful home!
This is exactly what I plan on doing with my future home I am building. I have also found a bunch of nice modern kitchen things that are vintage styled and I am super excited about building it with my parents help.
lovely, lovely, lovely. it’s so fun to visit people who have a million and one old things… i’m very nostalgic. my grandma had the green fireking dishware, as did my beloved mama. i’d so rather go back to living in the past compared with this world today…
Love your attitude about your home. 🙂
Love the house! One question: does a linoleum rug run the risk of having lead like old linoleum flooring? Really pretty, and would love to get one, but wouldn’t want to risk my pet’s health.
Wonder House! and Wonderful Attitude!
Love your house. The linoleum rug is so practical!
Totally adorable
Love, love this house, no home. It’s like walking into another time/era.
I love it!
Trick to clean the bath tub. mr. clean magic eraser and some toilet bowl cleaner it will be sparkling new again
Beautiful job! I love it!
So very special
Love the refrigerator.
I really loved your video. I think it is important to show people examples of how old things can be enjoyed and experienced very positively. Too much of our culture is based on being disposable, citing that it is "too old" or "obsolete" to be used anymore. This is how marketing has tainted our understanding of truly wonderful things in our lives, disrupting many good memories, experiences and cheating future generations out of appreciating the finer things found in a simpler life.
Beautiful!!!!!
Love your home
Did a Great job bringing it back.
Lovely❤.Same thing happened to me .I moved to a mobil home very well kept but retro, and i start loving this style and goung along w decor 😀.
Tara talented too !
Dag, they made their homes worthless, took em and sold em for the quirkiness
I had forgotten about the linseed "rugs"…my grandmother had one in her house, fifty years ago! Thanks for posting, and thanks for the memory.
I stumbled across your tour. The 30’s through early 1950’s are my favorite homes and decor. So many people buy these lovely older homes and gut them and turn them into 2020 style homes and it makes me so sad. Wonderful job and thank you for loving your home and not totally remodeling it in. ☺️
Great job. I have the green cups, etc. but I will be 72 God willing.
Love your love and care of vintage things and color. We have lost so much style through the growth of the many new renovation shows.
I love your point that to be authentic everything doesn’t have to come from the same decade. People in the 1940s owned items from the 1920’s etc. Anyway you did a great job, it’s wonderful and with a welcoming ambience.
At first, I thought it was going to be way over-done but I was pleasantly surprise. Her stuff is earlier than mine, but my 1923 bungalow is all vintage/retro. She has a cute place.
Love it, I have same style!!
GOOOOD
LOVE YOUR COTTAGE……….
Thank you for saving a piece of history. Your home is lovely and warm and I love what you have done with it.
Your home feels very loved as a home should.