Look! An Inside Peek Back at Palm Springs

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The weather never really diverged away from pleasant here in Southern California all winter, except for a few welcome thunder storms, but we're definitely already looking forward to so spring time excursions out eastward to Palm Springs when opportunity allows (we're all about Motel 6-style or camping accommodations). Especially so after seeing several of these sigh-inducing photos taken and shared by Spins LP over at our AT Los Angeles Flickr Community of a recent trip out to the land of MidCentury modernism...

[Photos provided by John Florence]

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OMG - I'm in love with so many things I see here...

posted by bepsf on March 19th 2009 at 4:48pm
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Me too, especially the use of color. I wish bright colors like that didn't turn all muddy and grim in the Pacific Northwest gloom.

posted by FiatLex on March 19th 2009 at 5:05pm
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Is that pegboard they used on the toilet cupboards and cabinet? It looks great and is a great idea for storage but I wonder how much of a pain it would be to clean and I wonder if mildew would be a problem due to pegboard being like fibreboard.

posted by Julz on March 19th 2009 at 5:17pm
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The tile work...sigh.

posted by gregory on March 19th 2009 at 5:18pm
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OMG, so cool. Love the bathrooms and that second kitchen w/ the original pink cooktop and ovens, wow.

Love those colors as well.

posted by ciddyguy on March 19th 2009 at 5:43pm
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"...I wonder if mildew would be a problem due to pegboard being like fibreboard."

Palm Springs is so intensely dry that I doubt that would be an issue - but a couple coats of Marine Varnish inside and out could solve that problem too.

posted by bepsf on March 19th 2009 at 5:44pm
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I don't think it was masonite peg board as we know it today. We had a version of the medicine cabinet at River House. It was a perforated plywood, sorta like luan. Don't know if that was original or not, but it was very durable.

posted by quiltmaster on March 19th 2009 at 5:44pm
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the blue laminate counter tops, j'adorable. im dying.

posted by modkitten on March 19th 2009 at 5:58pm
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What terrific places, and what great photography!

posted by srk1941 on March 19th 2009 at 6:26pm
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Wow! I love all the bright colors. I really love that green duvet cover! Anyone know where I can buy one?

posted by als1 on March 19th 2009 at 6:47pm
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all that aqua really brings the outside in... so cool... i'm in love with aqua

posted by sunan on March 19th 2009 at 11:46pm
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I spy Bisazza tiles in the kitchen backsplash. Stella Alpina? We have the same tiles in our shower.

posted by Hinke on March 20th 2009 at 5:21am
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