50s house

The 1950s brought us a whole host of things -- rock & roll, the jet age, the tail end of the baby boomers -- and a whole glut of (sometimes amusing)

Take a 1950s home tour of a 'junior five' near San Francisco - a small house with an entry stairway that starts at garage level and leads up to five rooms.

If you want to see how new homes were designed back in the rock 'n' roll and 'Leave it to Beaver' era, we have some fantastic '50s house plans for you!

If you want to see how new homes were designed back in the rock 'n' roll and 'Leave it to Beaver' era, we have some fantastic '50s house plans for you!

One of the more entertaining aspects of looking at floor plans entails envisioning how one might move through the spaces. This plan has some great mid century features like the snack bar, big windows, and massive brick fireplace in the large living room.

These 1941 interiors from Hazel Dell Brown of Armstrong Floors are beautifully designed and full of great decorating and color combination ideas.

If you want to see how new homes were designed back in the rock 'n' roll and 'Leave it to Beaver' era, we have some fantastic '50s house plans for you!

✯ Day 344 of Vintage 365 ✯ When you think back to the days of your childhood bedroom, what colours spring to mind first? I'd venture to guess that for many of us gals, pink and/or purple are definitely contenders, but the list certainly doesn't have to stop there. Having moved a few times over the course of my youth, just as I don't really feel like I have (only) one hometown, so too is tricky to firmly assign the title of "childhood bedroom" just just room that I laid my little head down in…