This is a bit of a modern take on the splayed leg sofa, but the bones are there. In the real mid-century period, velvet was just starting to come to prominence as a furniture fabric. But ...

When she couldn’t get a new refrigerator for the kitchen, she wrapped the one already there in a hand-blocked English fabric that played nicely with the reclaimed Portuguese tile on the wall.

However, experts say that difficulties in maintaining the original building fabric and the challenges of fittings that aren't compatible with modern technology mean mid-century modern homes are ...