to me this is actually a "timeless" kitchen

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Anonymous wrote:

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

There is nothing 1980s about this kitchen

NP. The ceiling fan, the art, the colour, the cabinet flat-fronts, the sink shape and tap is definitely 80s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

There is nothing 1980s about this kitchen

NP. The ceiling fan, the art, the colour, the cabinet flat-fronts, the sink shape and tap is definitely 80s.

I have those cabinet fronts and they are fifties.

The ceiling fan looks like is has a school house light, which would not be eighties. The art is more recent--one poster has the same one. The blue doesn't scream eighties to me and likely has been recently painted. Don't know about the sink and faucet.

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Anonymous wrote:Those cabinets look original and like plywood.

The house is from 1914 so probably not plywood, if original. Though I guess I don't actually know what woods were being used in the early 20th century.

If those cabinets are that old and still in that good shape I say keep them. You will never find modern cabinets that would survive like that for so long. Probably solid wood all around

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Can anyone link to the picture?

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone link to the picture?

Seconded. I can't see it either and based on the comments I'm very interested.

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone link to the picture?

Seconded. I can't see it either and based on the comments I'm very interested.

https://photos.zillowstatic.com/fp/fa79156062cadd2317259d367f4ac48a-uncropped_scaled_within_1344_1008.webp


It's not "timeless." As others have noted the cabinets are mid-century, probably 40's, and the rest is from sometime after Something's Gotta Give. The tiles are bad but overall it's a fine kitchen.

[Anonymous]

OP if you buy it, consider taking out the tile and using the beadboard as backsplash, if you can match it.

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Anonymous wrote:OP if you buy it, consider taking out the tile and using the beadboard as backsplash, if you can match it.

This is OP - we're not buying the house, though we love it! I idly contemplate moving back to Rhode Island so I check out a lot of real estate listings there, which is how I stumbled on this one. Someone else will get this great house, and hopefully they won't tear out this lovely kitchen and put in white shaker cabinets and a white countertop snooozzzeee

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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.

PP sounds kind of smug, and you sound kind of defensive, but surely you are aware that many people with perfect new kitchens don’t like to cook at all.

[Anonymous]

It's ugly

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I hate those cabinets, very similar to what I have (and am finally about to tear out). We have assumed a 40's or 50's upgrade to our 1928 home.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with you, OP. It's not a dream gut reno but it's done in a way that doesn't say "settled for the cheap n trendy home depot floor model cabinets and sheet tile backsplash".

I am trying to keep this in mind while we figure out how to update our sad old kitchen on a limited budget. What do I tackle first, the baltic brown granite or the awful oak cabinets?

Countertops always

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those cabinets look original and like plywood.

The house is from 1914 so probably not plywood, if original. Though I guess I don't actually know what woods were being used in the early 20th century.

If those cabinets are that old and still in that good shape I say keep them. You will never find modern cabinets that would survive like that for so long. Probably solid wood all around

+1 Love the cabinets!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those cabinets look original and like plywood.

The house is from 1914 so probably not plywood, if original. Though I guess I don't actually know what woods were being used in the early 20th century.

If those cabinets are that old and still in that good shape I say keep them. You will never find modern cabinets that would survive like that for so long. Probably solid wood all around

+1 Love the cabinets!

A previous poster who has these cabinets made of birch. The waste of tearing out still perfectly good cabinets would gnaw at me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

PP sounds kind of smug, and you sound kind of defensive, but surely you are aware that many people with perfect new kitchens don’t like to cook at all.

My nice kitchen with quartz countertops and solid wood cabinets and wolf stove is used solely for Instagram photos to make old people with laminate countertop people jealous.