Today, I had an opportunity to help a neighbor find appropriate color schemes for her English cottage style home, so I found myself poking through old Aladdin catalogs again. I just love to dig through old kit home catalogs. I found a website that allows users to download old Aladdin catalogs
here.
As usual, I took screenshots of the ones in color I liked the best and I'm sharing them here. (Because this post is going to have a ton of pictures in it, I'm going to insert a page break so you'll have to load the post if you want to see them all.)
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Cadillac," 1917 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Champion," 1920 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Detroit," 1922 (same coloration as 1919 catalog) |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Dorval," 1920 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Dresden," 1917 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Edison," 1919 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Grange," 1920 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Georgia," 1919 |
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Aladdin Kit Garages, 1926 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Holmwood," 1920 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Leota," 1917 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Marsden," 1922 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Pasadena," 1919 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, " The Plaza," 1922 (same coloration as 1919) |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Pomona," 1920 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Pomona," 1922 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Richmond," 1920 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Roseland," 1919 (same coloration as 1917) |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Shadow Lawn," 1917 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Standard," 1917 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Stanhope," 1919 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Sunnyside," 1920 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Sunshine," 1919 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Tacoma," 1920 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Venus," 1919 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Vinelands," 1920 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Winthrop," 1919 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Yale," 1919 |
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Aladdin Kit Home, "The Yale," 1917 |
Fun!
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DeleteI wonder how accurate the colors are in those old publications? Good color reproduction didn't happen until fairly recently. Take a look at the unappetizing photos in even 1950s and 60's cookbooks to see what I mean.
ReplyDeleteI would use the period pictures as a starting point. I would not try and match them. I would choose a couple of possible color schemes and then go look at the options in the historical color palette and see if they look well together and choose that way.
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