to me this is actually a "timeless" kitchen

[Anonymous]

It looks 80s to me, but whatever. It's not horrible.

[Anonymous]

If I have to see subway tile one more time ...

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Anonymous wrote:If I have to see subway tile one more time ...

I’m sorry for your suffering. I’ll light a candle for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It looks 80s to me, but whatever. It's not horrible.

There is nothing 1980s about this kitchen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I have to see subway tile one more time ...

What’s wrong with subway tile? It’s been around for decades.

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Anonymous wrote:If I have to see subway tile one more time ...

What’s wrong with subway tile? It’s been around for decades.

People are just tired of it. It makes a lot of sense for a backsplash and there are endless colors and textures. Its more classic than trend but I get being exhausted by it.

[Anonymous]

I love the floor. I have Shaker cabinets that, if not older, would have been installed in 1949 (house was divided into apartments at that time, although the remaining cabinets in the other kitchens that still existed when we got the place had flat panel plywood doors). Floor is maple but not as beautiful as the picture. I love this style but would also vote for Shaker style cabinets (even though cleaning those edges is a pain. I'm also partial to white appliances.

Both sets of grandparents lived without indoor plumbing until their 80s (my parents were farm kids and the youngest of very large families with parents who married relatively late in life). I have wonderful memories of farm visits as a kid and white enamel dishpans, water buckets (used a dipper to drink, and a white enamel cup at the well to grab a drink with). My dad's mother didn't even have cabinets. She had a pantry with shelves, the fridge (yes, she referred to it as the icebox), and a worktable with tin bins for flour and sugar and a pull out cutting board, with the rest of food prep being done at the kitchen table or on the (huge) wood/gas combo stove (other grandma had an electric stove and a big all wood stove). Very traditional white kitchens push my nostalgia buttons, without memories of the work those women had.

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Anonymous wrote:I like it! My guess is that those cabinets aren't original to a 1912 house; they were probably redone in the 1940s. Looks just like a 1940s kitchen I used to have. We had no problem with the doors lying flat or the drawers gliding (although I did wax the wood grooves from time to time).

The hardware is clearly new and I'm not mad about it. I love the countertops. Soapstone, maybe? To me this is less a timeless kitchen than it is an appealing vintage kitchen.

And yes, the ceiling fan has to go, and you can take the faucet, but don't you dare touch that darling radiator. Besides providing A-1 heat, imagine proofing bread on a board on top of that!

Not OP but tell me more about the radiators? i have huge ones across my 1920s bungalow. I love the comfortable heat and they actually look good, my problem is they take too much space in my 1000sqft house.. So i keep wondering if i should get rid of them. Talk me out of it? no way of getting as good heat with forced air right?

I have some radiators and some electric baseboard (because of a couple of radiators that cracked, one because DH was frantic to rescue a kitten with its head stuck, no, cast iron does NOT bend!, the other because of a window that was left open in freezing weather and managed to freeze up one vane or whatever you call it of the radiator). Apparently radiators are actually more efficient. Honestly, I'm glad the one in the dining room (the kitten fiasco) is gone because there really was a space problem. And they accumulate dust and are hard to clean. But I like them, and I like putting my socks and mittens on them in the winter for toasty feet and hands. If I put a few potholders on the kitchen radiator, I can have perfectly spreadable butter in the winter in my (chilly) kitchen.

[Anonymous]

I have a version of that kitchen. White cabinets with beadboard doors and dark blue countertops. One wall is painted dark blue and the others are are butterscotch color. Island has white cabinet with built in wine rack and butterscotch color granite. I get tons of compliments on the kitchen.

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Anonymous wrote:Those cabinets look original and like plywood.

plywood didn't exist then.

[Anonymous]

Love those slab door cabinets. I looked for some when we remodeled and could not find any outside of some extreme high end designs that DH did not like because they looked too modern. Doors like that are so much easier to clean than the ones with any kind of framing on them.

[Anonymous]

What are you cooking in the fancy kitchens? I have a normal white cabinet, stainless steel appliances, laminate countertops, builder grade kitchen.

We are avid cooks and we are adventurous eaters, so every cooking appliance is used a lot at my house - from oven, to stovetop, microwaves to crockpots, toaster ovens to grills, instapots to camp stoves.

My DH always tells me that I should get an upgrade but I love my kitchen the way it is because it is very functional, bright and cheerful. Since it does not have anything very fancy (no expensive countertops), I am at ease while cooking. I have gorgeous wooden floors and lovely rugs. But yes, in 24 years, no upgrades.

I do not understand beautiful kitchens in homes where people are not good cooks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a version of that kitchen. White cabinets with beadboard doors and dark blue countertops. One wall is painted dark blue and the others are are butterscotch color. Island has white cabinet with built in wine rack and butterscotch color granite. I get tons of compliments on the kitchen.

It sounds like such a lovely cheerful kitchen.

[Anonymous]

It's actually a mismatch of eras. Clearly they did some updates but not others.

The cabinets, floors and radiator are original or if not original were changed many years ago. The cabinets are old but "freshened up" with a new coat of paint and new hardware. All of this is 50+ years old.

The drawer hardware/pulls, the countertop and the faucet are all within the last 10, maybe 15 years at the outside.

So the owners did not do a whole redo, but did a bit of freshening up and you end up with a mix of 50 year old kitchen with some 0-10 year old facelift.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are you cooking in the fancy kitchens? I have a normal white cabinet, stainless steel appliances, laminate countertops, builder grade kitchen.

We are avid cooks and we are adventurous eaters, so every cooking appliance is used a lot at my house - from oven, to stovetop, microwaves to crockpots, toaster ovens to grills, instapots to camp stoves.

My DH always tells me that I should get an upgrade but I love my kitchen the way it is because it is very functional, bright and cheerful. Since it does not have anything very fancy (no expensive countertops), I am at ease while cooking. I have gorgeous wooden floors and lovely rugs. But yes, in 24 years, no upgrades.

I do not understand beautiful kitchens in homes where people are not good cooks.

I mean let's leave it aside that you're obviously humblebragging and setting up a totally unnecessary dichotomy of "old kitchen=good cook, fancy kitchen=non-cook". Have you ever considered that fancy kitchen can ALSO be very functional, bright and cheerful? And that fancy countertops do not stain, chip or cause any worry whatsoever?

But yes, we all noticed you have gorgeous wooden floors and lovely rugs; what you're really saying is that you're fancy but in the "right" way.