Home beautiful 1947

April 1947

Vol.26 No 4

Magazine is in fair condition. Front cover attached by both staples with extensive grazing along full length of spine. Jagged tear along right middle to lower edge of front cover. Back Cover completely detached but still with the magazine. Aside from that cover has minimal curling and yellowing. Pages are in good condition. Diagonal tear to pages 5 & 6 with segment missing. All other pages have no tears, folds, creases or curling with only minimal yellowing.

Articles include - These strange gadgets and fittings once helped English Housewives, Old English Household Life, Small House at Malvern, Victoria, A Solution to the small house problem, Melbourne razes a slum - a correspondent reports on anew housing project, South Australia builds houses economically, An Architect talks to a client about flat roofs, Your new garden, House for a Doctor, Design with a Purpose, Letter yo Garden Lovers, The first of three Articles on how to build- The home Beautiful Caravan, A Modern Desk with many uses, Considering the Plan, Short cuts to Successful Gardening, Cookery - Intriguing dishes to tempt the palate, Adventuring on 10 Acres, A Garden Plan.

Contains the usual black & white graphic advertising. The Home Beautiful magazines of 1947 really reflect the simple styles and minimal decoration of the time.

July 1947

Vol 26 No 7

Magazine is in fair condition. Front cover is attached by both staples with extensive grazing along full length of spine. Tear above top staple to top edge of front cover with some curling. Tear along right side of front cover extends down two thirds the length of the cover. Aside from that the picture is good and the colors still vibrant. Back cover is completely detached but still with the magazine. Pages are in good condition. No tears, folds, creases or curling with minimal yellowing of pages.

Articles Include - Victorian House Factory - at Sandringham, Melbourne, Article “Little Parndon” - A survivor of early Melbourne as described by Esme Johnston, Frock Shop at Mildura, Before you buy that House make these tests of its condition, House with a Piano in the kitchen, House for Living, Damp - How to eliminate the cause at the source, Furniture with a Past, This Tree Problem, A Room for your child (Contains patterns for animals for curtains or bedspreads - printed in bright pink! Very rare for this time), Four Space & Time Savers, Letter to Garden Lovers, Considering the Plan - Comments and advice on readers home plans by Home Beautiful Architectural expert, For Your Home - Home items (with black & white pictures) Modern Bedroom Suite - Unit 3 The Bed (Contains Pattern), Adventuring on 10 Acres, Cookery - For Tea Round a Fire, A Reader’s Garden, News for Home Builders.

The articles and advertising in these 1947 issues remind us that there was a time when people physically built their own homes and furniture and were resourceful in their methods! The pages of this magazine are in very good condition.

September 1947

Vol 26 No. 9

Magazine is in fair condition. Front cover attached by both staples with extensive grazing & small tears along entire length of spine. Grazing around edges of front cover with tear (approx 2cm) to middle bottom edge which extends through magazine to page 6. Fold crease on bottom right corner of front cover. Back cover is completely detached but still with the magazine. Pages are in fair to good condition. Tear to page 6 as described above. Some curling and folds of bottom of pages to page 8. Otherwise no tears, folds, crease or curling with moderate yellowing of pages and small ? dirt staining on bottom edge through entire magazine.

Articles Include - Australian Artists Create New Textiles, Rebirth of Mulberry Cottage, Domain Street, South Yarra, Spacious Living in 11 ½ Squares, Queen Anne Has a New Dress, Cliff Top Home exploits Sunshine and View, Windows have Work to do, Old Pewter on parade, Use Your Garden for Outdoor Living, Choose Your Shrubs Carefully, Furnish this low cost dining room yourself, A Noahs Ark loses it’s ugliness, Letter to Garden Lovers, Seventeen steps to a Dovetailed Box, Newest Articles for your home, Considering the Plan, Six Ways to dress your windows, Three Tasty Dishes, Open Planning for Seaside Garden.

Contains classic graphic black & white advertising of the time.

October 1947

Vol. 26 No.10

Magazine is in fair condition.. Front cover attached by top staple only. Tears and extensive grazing along entire length of spine. No curling, folds or creases on front cover. Back cover is completely detached but still with the magazine. Small tear (approx 1 cm) to spine edge of back cover. Pages are in good condition with no tears, folds, creases or curling. Minimal yellowing and some “spotting” to pages.

Articles Include - New Ideas in Concrete Home, Architects conserve space in these small homes, You Can Live more comfortably in Well Planned Rooms, Terraced Garden for Sloping Land, Silversmiths Gems Out of the Past, Lounge Furniture for the times, Where bright colors entice Sunshine Doors, Ghost of Early Colonial Mansion, This is the Month to Plant Vegetables, You can Make this Modern Furniture from Paper Patterns (See Colored Picture), Considering the Plan, Built in Furniture not only saves space, Why Not French Polish Your Patterncraft Furniture, Letter to Garden Lovers, Charming Home Reflects Georgian Period - St Leonards Court, Melbourne, Cookery - When Friends come to lunch, Adventuring on 10 Acres, We know Gold fish but what are Tropicals, Make Domestic Knives from Hacksaw Blades.

Includes fascinating advertising!

These four magazine speak of resourcefulness and “making do” with what you have - and unlike the home beautiful magazines of the 50’s onwards, their advertising is more practical and less decorative. I wonder what the home makers of 1947 would thing of our modern day excesses. Although these magazines have all seen better days they are still fascinating page turners, valuable resources and archives of Australian Home History.

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