Post #315813 by hannah on Fri, Jun 29, 2007 3:17 PM

Hi all,

hannah here, typing to you from Maine. I ran across your forum about a year back when using Google to find something...and I made a mental note to re-visit. Well, it's been some time, and again while using Google - this forum came up in a search on Atomic Ranch homes. Ah HA! So I read a little this morning before work and decided to join. I just purchased the book Atomic Ranch yesterday and LOVE it! I also ran across a site for a book called Little Boxes http://www.littleboxesbook.com/ which thrilled me no end.

The reason for the fascination of these homes is; 1) I play a game (The Sims2) which allows the player to build homes, and business lots, parks and such, 2) I find with my parents and brother all gone now, that revisiting this home and decor style takes me back to better days (60s/70s). Tiki fits right in, as do cocktail parties, and anything kitsch (I grew up in a home where cocktail parties were the norm, and I wouldn't trade it for anything).

Let's see if this forum will read a img file from photobucket, if it does, this is a little Atomic Ranch home I built over last weekend:

If not, I'll edit. Anyway, aside from all the above I'm a very young minded 53 year old, and I work with Scientists, which has proved fascinating to this aging hippie. I hang out at Sim forums, build in the game, eBay for kitsch and do the antique/thrift shop search for same.

I think that's it. Now, to check out the rest of this forum!