Canadian Bacon Barbie

I found these decorating books at the thrift store and absolutely had to have them:

1) Better Homes and Gardens Creative Decorating on a Budget, ca 1970

Which featured this awesome green and black room:

I think you could easily replicate that chair by painting a thrift store version black, and then covering the chair pad.

2) Good Housekeeping’s Complete Book of Decorating, from 1971 (I think)

This book featured more cool green and black rooms:

I love the fabric on the chairs–it looks like Marimekko.

Now I’m wishing I had chosen green and black for my living room. To get the look, you could get one of these from Ikea:

I still have a Klippan sofa from grad school. I love being able to change the look of it… it’s in my study right now so maybe I could pull of this kind of look there…

Or this sofa from allmodern.com

The dots are too cool!