Saturday, March 30, 2013

Aladdin Kit Homes

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.)
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Cadillac," 1917
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Champion," 1920
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Detroit," 1922 (same coloration as 1919 catalog)

Aladdin Kit Home, "The Dorval," 1920
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Dresden," 1917
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Edison," 1919
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Grange," 1920
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Georgia," 1919
Aladdin Kit Garages, 1926
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Holmwood," 1920
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Leota," 1917
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Marsden," 1922
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Pasadena," 1919
Aladdin Kit Home, " The Plaza," 1922 (same coloration as 1919)
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Pomona," 1920
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Pomona," 1922
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Richmond," 1920
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Roseland," 1919 (same coloration as 1917)
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Shadow Lawn," 1917
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Standard," 1917
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Stanhope," 1919
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Sunnyside," 1920
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Sunshine," 1919
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Tacoma," 1920
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Venus," 1919
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Vinelands," 1920
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Winthrop," 1919
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Yale," 1919
Aladdin Kit Home, "The Yale," 1917

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  2. I 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.

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    1. I 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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