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Decorating your home in all mid-century style might be a little too Mad Men for our contemporary lives. Adding a few mid-century modern touches—chairs, tables, light fixtures, textiles—can bring Mad Men (and now Pan Am) style into your décor without transporting your home back a few decades. We're happy to share some of our favorite ways to add mid-century modern touches to any décor.

Interior Style Along with mid-century modern furniture, mid century modern textiles are a chic way to add mid-century modern touches to a room, sofa, bed or table. Marimekko, the Finnish textile company, sells its mid-century patterned fabrics still today.

Sift the positive from the negative with colour cues...your child’s best ally. Research indicates that a growing child’s ever-changing preferences for colour can be attuned to a collective response rather than isolated colours or instances. It helps to remember that today’s child is individualistic, sensitive, and confident, with defined likes and dislikes. The correct use of colour can thus show very positive results in him.

Creativity vs. waste has given birth to the new haute trash, an eclectic inclusion not only in one’s décor and accessorizing toolkit, but in design and architecture per se… Recycling trash – whether plastic bottles, damaged CDs, discarded cloth articles, broken glass, crushed cans, tattered mattresses, old and battered trunks or suitcases… has always held a Bohemian charm, whether as offbeat and kitsch elements from an enterprising homemaker’s imagination, out-of-the-ordinary thinking by a designer, chiseling a chic eclectic style, making anew a whole room or parts thereof or as adaptive reuse architectural projects.

Love this chic, feminine window shade that gathers in the middle. It is a softer option than a Roman shade yet more structured than curtains.