" Keeping this in the '40s look involves finding the right colors and so on. And we will get started with these Chartreuse chairs."

" Uh huh."

" Well Chartreuse is a kind of 1940s color."

" It is. It is that indeed. And that gave us our wall colors."

" Yeah."

" To lighten this room up. Well there was white trim with the yellow on the walls, I think works very nicely and especially on the mantel piece. No this I insisted on. It's not in the budget and it's not a 1940s piece. This is one of my friend Dale Beatty's carved fish that he makes here in Naples. And I just think it's a nice accent."

" We found this wonderful tiger oak dresser at a garage sale also which we paid $170 for this piece in this condition."

" It's in beautiful shape."

" It really is."

" Yeah. And I remember this last. Now this we found in the same little shop where we bought the rockers out in the porch. That was 12 bucks."

" Well after a little research, this turns out to be Bristol. And I'm quite anxious to get an appraisal or find out just what that's worth. It's a fine piece!"

" You mean you think it's a treasure?"

" It's a treasure! It is a treasure!"

" That's great! How about this couch?"

" The couch also came from a garage sale. It had our colors, the Chartreuse and the khaki green. It just helps pull everything together."

" And turquoise in it."

" And some turquoise. Lots of Florida color."

" Now in the dining room over here, our architect Andrea Clark Brown made of one change which was absolutely revolutionary. The doorway used to be in the middle of the wall so that if you set up the dining room you look straight through there if the door was open and you found the bathroom. And so she boxed this up and put in a pocket door."

" That's great!"

" Let's go look at the bedroom."

" Well Bob, in the this front bedroom we chose this old wing chair. Fabric was fine. We picked up this red from it. We spun some couple of pieces of furniture that also came from the tourist shop, painted the wall fan with white woodwork, and that's the whole story."

" The red and tan really work together well in here. In the bathroom, we used tan with white, both on the floor that we put in as well as in the walls and the [unk]. And the star here are the 2 lavatories which at the salvage yard. They're from the '40s but they're in beautiful shape. And they only cost 25 bucks a piece. And we put in a simple wooden shelf, a new mirror, 2 new light fixtures. Those are about $20 a pair. So again, not too much money here. And in the other bedroom, this is the blue room. Right."

" This room is basically blue because of the exposure. It has that southwest exposure which occurs, you know down here, is very very warm."

" And blue is a very cool color."

" It sure is."

" Right."

" Picked up a couple of dressers, they're all Birdseye maple, put some new white porcelain knobs on 'em, added some plaid bed spreads, some inexpensive braided rug."

" Tell me about the lamp. "

" The lamp is tramp art. It's made out of popsicle sticks."

" Yeah. How much did you pay for that?"

" Oh, that was a big $12.50!"

" Not bad. Not bad."

" Now in the dining room the green is really a terrific color but is it serious?"

" It sure is serious. This green is the original paint we found in the kitchen."

" So you did find traces of it?"

" Absolutely, under old paint."

" That's great! This is an original touch. The scrolled decoration on the cupboard there which we used in the kitchen but I found this in the shrubs. I'm so glad that you included it in your decoration here. That was kind of below an old bush out in the garden. But we included that scroll motif up here and our style is just kinda cut it out in pieces of fur and it looks pretty good, don't you think?"

" I think it looks super. We added the shutters to keep this nice, clean, white feeling. Have some control over light and privacy."

" Exactly."

" I think they look super too."

" And the cabinets are all built in place practically but the counter tops are the rubble work or the broken tile works."

" Very traditional old Florida."

" Yeah. It's a nice technique. And then the last room in the house of course is the back porch. Now this is that table cloth we found in that little shop for about 5 bucks, right?"

" That's right, and that's truly '40s."

" Not bad. So this is where you take breakfast. Herb, it's a great job!"

" That's my pleasure."

" Thanks a lot!"

" You're quite welcome!"

" Okay right now let's check in with Andrea Clark Brown, the architect that's made many of these changes out on the screened porch."

" And Andrea, I was just bragging about the changes you've made inside. Not the least of which are the French doors here."

" Yes. It's very easy to change made by marking this opening."

" Where there was a window, now there's another door flanking the fire place."

" That's right."

" That's going into where there was a car port now there is a screened porch."

" Yes. Nice way to bring in an element that every Florida home should have and bring the outside inside, give you a shady, bug-less environment with a great view!"

" Keep the bugs out. I think we even have screens into the deck maybe. But it's a very important thing to do. And the view is spectacular especially over towards that swimming pool. You wanna go take a look?"

" It's looking very inviting."

" Then come on! Yeah, you can't really enjoy Florida in the middle of the summer without a swimming pool, right?"

" That's right!"

" And I love some of the touches with the pool. It was your idea to include a pattern in the ceramic tile edging."

" A nice lyrical pattern to contemplate while cooling off in the pool."

" There you go. Yeah, it kinda bounces around. And I love this idea over here of having essentially built up platform so that you can wade in there or you can just sit in the cooling water."

" It's nice to have a feature like that in the pool to spring a little bit of fun to it."