A 41-page Mid-Century Modern playbook for renters. Four rooms, six named paint colours, a 20-item shopping index with price bands, and eight weekend projects.
Mid-Century Modern is a specific set of moves, not brown furniture. Tapered and splayed legs, walnut and teak veneer, the shell chair silhouette, and a palette that commits to harvest gold, burnt orange and avocado green rather than hedging into beige.
This book prices the look for a rental. Six paint colours are named for two brands. Products are named by retailer so you know what to search for. Every project in it uses a removable or reversible method.
What is in the 41 pages
Seven opening pages set the style up: era and origin, materials, references, the colour palette, and master finishes. Sixteen pages cover four rooms. The rest is a renter playbook: rules, proportions, room commitments, a style diagnostic, maker provenance, eight projects, a thrift guide, substitutions, and a two-page shopping index.
The four rooms
Living room, bedroom, kitchen and dining, bathroom. Each room gets four pages: the room itself, an education spread, a mixed moodboard, and a shop-the-look page.
Paint and materials
Six paint colours, each with a Benjamin Moore name and code and a Sherwin-Williams name and code. Harvest Gold is BM Golden Mustard 2154-20 or SW Nugget 6697. Six signature materials: teak veneer, solid walnut, boucle, cognac leather, molded fiberglass, and brushed brass.
The shopping index
Twenty items grouped by room, each with a price band and the page it appears on. A Langley sofa on walnut legs runs $1,100 to $1,500. A six-drawer dresser on tapered legs runs $450 to $650.
Weekend projects
Eight builds with a materials list and a running cost, from $20 to $90. A walnut-veneer credenza update, a sputnik chandelier from a builder pendant kit, a tapered-leg round coffee table, a sunburst wall mirror, an angled-leg swap on a boxy piece, and three more.
Renter rules and substitutions
Two pages of renter rules, then eight substitution pages: the designer piece, the cheaper piece, and why the trade holds up. A Herman Miller Eames DSW at $450 to $650 a chair against a shell-style chair at $70 to $110, polypropylene against fiberglass with the same geometry.
What format is the file
PDF, 41 pages. It opens on a phone, a laptop, or a printer. No app and no login.
Are the products shown clickable
No. Retailers and product names are printed so you know what to search for. Nothing routes out to a store.
Are the prices real
They are researched estimate bands, not live quotes. Check the current figure before you buy.
Will any of this work in a rental
Two pages of renter rules cover what to avoid. Furniture risers in a walnut finish add the tapered leg for about $22, cabinet pulls swap with a Phillips-head, and shell chairs ship flat.
How do I know Mid-Century Modern is the right style
A four-panel diagnostic sets real MCM beside its lookalikes: plain brown furniture, contemporary warm-neutral, bohemian with vintage in it, and 1970s brown, with the tell for each.
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