Our Mid-Century Hallway Updates

The smallest part of our house had the highest percentage of things updated. We started by swapping out the light switches. They were the only switches in the house that were the old-school standard switches and not pole rocker switches. We also swapped the location of attic light and the hallway light. Now the hall light is closer to the door, where it should be. It's something that bugged me since the day we moved in.

I wasn't going to take photos for any of these updates, but this one requires it because we used a lot of dead stock items to update the hallway.

For the light we used this mid-century sconce bought from Rejuvenation. They don't sell it anymore, but you can get the same vibe with these sconces. The original hall light looked like a sea shell and was in desperate need of an update.

We kept the original wood doors and had them repainted. They're mid-century quality and there was no reason to replace them. We did replace all of the door knobs, backplates, and latches. We had just enough of the original, and literally irreplaceable (I looked everywhere), mid-century backplates that we could put one on the front of each door.

The knobs used to be a mix of glass knobs, silver knobs, and black knobs. We swapped them all out with this vintage brass knob set, this black rosette on the back, and this latch set. It was a perfect match and now all the handles look the same.

Another thing that will go (visually) unnoticed is replacing the intake vent. We replaced all vents instead of painting them. If you still have vintage vents, I recommend updating, not painting. The airflow in our house is a lot better.