40s interior design

We take a look at room full of 1940s decor designed by Hazel Dell Brown, one of the most surprisingly influential designers in midcentury America!

Explore the 7 biggest trends in 1950s decorating -- complete with descriptions and vintage illustrations of 1950s decor for each style.

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1940s traditional American home hallway

Better Homes and Gardens has covered interior design since the dawn of the Jazz Age. Join us as we take a decade-by-decade look back through the furniture, colors, and styles that filled our homes over the past century, along with the people and events that drove the designs of our lives.

Explore our selction of the interiors, objects, and architecture of the past century that keenly illustrate the timelessness of expert design.

Name: Joanne O’Callaghan Location: Melbourne, Australia Size: 510 square feet Years owned: 16 years Joanne recently renovated this late-1940s Art Deco apartment in East Melbourne, Australia. The entire place is full of light and charm, but the apartment’s living and dining space, called the “blue room,” is a particular jewel: It features Art Deco cornices, a tiered mirror above the original fireplace and a large framed window.

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In "Making America Modern: Interior Design in the 1930s," historian Marilyn Friedman traces America's darkest era became its period of great innovation.