{"id":581410,"date":"2023-07-04T16:14:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T13:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/this-mid-century-guelph-home-blends-vintage-kitsch-with-colourful-decor\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T13:14:21","slug":"this-mid-century-guelph-home-blends-vintage-kitsch-with-colourful-decor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-mid-century-guelph-home-blends-vintage-kitsch-with-colourful-decor\/","title":{"rendered":"#This mid-century Guelph home blends vintage kitsch with colourful decor"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\u201cThe best compliment we get is that the house looks like Megan Draper\u2019s apartment in\u00a0Mad Men<\/i>\u201d\n<\/div>\n
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Architect Richard Pagani designed several innovative, modernist homes in his hometown of Guelph. (Photography by Nathan Cyprys.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Ever since Cass Goulding<\/span> was a child, she\u2019s been drawn to vintage kitsch, watching old episodes of Bewitched<\/i> and scouring thrift stores for 1950s rockabilly-style dresses. Her husband, Chris Bowman, prefers clean lines, Scandinavian minimalism and the modernist designs of Louis Kahn, Marcel Breuer and Pierre Koenig. \u201cI\u2019m mid-century, he\u2019s modern, so together we\u2019re mid-mod,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2017, Goulding, now a social media<\/a> manager, and Bowman, a pilot, were living in a cookie-cutter three-bedroom Oshawa house furnished in typical millennial fashion, with a nightstand doing double duty as a TV table. They fantasized about taking their atomic-age aesthetic obsession to the next level and buying a mid-century home. They started their hunt the next year, limiting their search radius to within an hour\u2019s drive of Pearson airport.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In December of 2018, Bowman saw a listing online for a low-slung rectangular structure by architect Richard Pagani in Guelph, Ontario\u2014but at $850,000, it was out of their budget. The three-bedroom house languished on the market for a few more months, and its price fell by $100,000. The day they viewed the house, it dropped even further, to $699,000. They put in an offer for that amount in 2019, and once it was accepted, the couple only had 11 days to sell their townhouse.<\/p>\n

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The couple took their time to build out the decor for their dream mid-mod home, scouring the internet and vintage spots for their pieces<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Their new, sleek home brims with thoughtful mid-century details. The front door is flanked by large glass panels, and a Sputnik lamp hangs from the ceiling. A set of dark floating wood stairs leads up to the airy living room, which came with massive, commercial-grade floor-to-ceiling windows.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Goulding, who\u2019s a big fan of director Wes Anderson\u2019s fanciful and colourful aesthetic, treated her home\u2019s interior design like a movie set. She had the slate-grey exterior painted a dark, stormy blue, punctuated by a cheerful yellow door. Inside, the unifying colour scheme is orange, as seen in the couple\u2019s choice of area rugs, flip clock and carrot-haired troll doll. Goulding and Bowman also painted a blue arch and a tangerine rectangle to break up the monotony of their white walls, and they chose an inferno orange for the bathroom vanity. Scattered throughout the house are splashy and vibrant art prints, including retro surrealist collages by Frank Moth and Thom Easton, along with some of Goulding\u2019s homemade paintings.
\n\"BrownTheir collection of mid-century furniture includes a 1950s teak dining set and replicas of Goulding\u2019s favourite lamp: the Louis Poulsen PH 5, which she found online for a bargain price. \u201cThe best compliment we get is that the house looks like Megan Draper\u2019s apartment in Mad Men<\/i>,\u201d she says. But the couple\u2019s different tastes occasionally put them at odds: Goulding loves the original 1960s blue bathtub in the main bathroom and the peach sink in the ensuite; Bowman does not. \u201cBoth bathrooms need gut-job renovations in my opinion,\u201d he says. Goulding has convinced Bowman to keep the peach sink, but they will jettison the blue tub.<\/p>\n

They also have big plans for the basement, which will eventually become a retro-theme<\/a>d lounge where they can host rau<\/span>cous parties\u2014the space even has a curved, wooden built-in bar that houses their extensive vintage barware collection. First, they need to insulate the walls and replace the green shag carpeting that their dogs, Summit and Sushi, constantly mistake for grass. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be the best room in the house,\u201d Goulding says.<\/p>\n

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Goulding and Bowman share their home with two dogs, Summit and Sushi, and more than 20 plants that the couple have named<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Their home has become a part of their identity. Soon after they moved in, Goulding started an Instagram account, @midmodcass, to connect with other atomic-age enthusiasts. For Bowman\u2019s 36th birthday, Goulding commissioned KaloolaJay Studio to draw a custom portrait of the house surrounded by palm trees, an ode to the couple\u2019s love of mid-century paradise Palm Springs. And it\u2019s not their only image of the house, either. In 2022, they saw an illustration by artist Julie Hall that depicted another design by their home\u2019s architect, Richard Pagani, and reached out to get her to draw their house too.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI just want to live somewhere that\u2019s lively and fun and makes me feel happy,\u201d says Goulding. Their home is a full one, shared with more than 20 plants that have names like Natalie Portman and Andr\u00e9 the Giant. (The two pink plastic flamingos on the lawn are called Simon and Garfunkel.) \u201cFor the first couple of years we lived here,\u201d Bowman says, \u201cwe would look around and say to each other: \u2018I can\u2019t believe we actually got this place.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/span>
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