Kitchen Photos

[Unimatic1140]

While its not quite done yet, I still need to install the range hood, here are some shots of our crazy new kitchen.

http://automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/00ShowCollectionGETD.cgi?dir=/COLLECTIONS/_NEWKITCHEN

 

[DADoES]

Nice!

 

[JerseyMike]

Wow!

A pink ROTARY telephone? Wow. I can't beleive that you were able to find one of those! (I bet some of the younger club members wouldn't even know what to do with a ROTARY telephone. LOL!)

Seriously, I love your use of color. You have a lovely home. I hope you enjoy it for many years to come. Thanks for sharing.

Mike

 

[peteski50]

Kitchen Photos

Robert,
Very nicely done.
Peter

 

[tlee618]

Hi Robert, Thanks so much for sharing the pictures with us. Your home looks just beautiful. I love the red stripped awnings out front. Your collections look so neat and at home in there new setting. Love that collection of timers you have, I never realize they made that many different colors. Love the Pillsbury Dough Man standing guard at the sink too. Really neat!! You did a wonderful job. Terry

 

[westytoploader]

LOVE the kitchen...looks straight out of the 50's!! EXCELLENT striped tile!

Where did you find all of those vintage food boxes?

 

[maytagbear]

Wow!

Very nice, Robert.

I really had never thought that Sunshine Yellow and Turquoise would work as well together as they do.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[hoover1060]

WOW!

Thats a beautiful kitchen, I love the look and the colors!
Where did you find the blue sink? That is SO cool!

 

[Maytagluver]

Oh..that Kitchenaid!!!

We had the same dishwasher, only portable when I was a kid at home.
Never thought I'd see another one!!!
GREAT looken kitchen..nice tan G resting in the corner

Al :>

 

[drmitch]

Great remodel

Like the colors, and that wild floor! All your colection and appliances look great in there! Thanks for the pics! P.S. Whats the little door on the left looking toward the dining aera?

 

[Kevinpreston3]

Very nice

What a great place to cook! Love the range!!!!!

 

[Acerone]

Very retro.... Great job....

 

[appnut]

AWESOME!!! THANK YOU ROBERT

 

[foraloysius]

Very great kitchen indeed. I love the combination of the turquoise and the yellow and the pink accents, it makes the kitchen very cheerful.

 

[parunner58]

I love the brightness of your kitchen. My mom still has some of the same CLub Aluminum pots at home in turquoise also. I love the choice of lights on the ceiling and the floor.

Mike

 

[compwhiz128]

I notice the pots, neighbors gave my mom the same brand, only ours are pink XP

 

[angus]

I think it's way too dreamy - the combination of colors is fantastic. All that and a pink phone also. What more could one ask??????

 

[jdinstl]

Very nice!

Robert, your kitchen is beautiful. So much nicer and more "home and hearth" than the sterile look of it in the before picture.

Beautiful home too! But we need to talk about those awnings...

<grin>

John

 

[gansky1]

Beautiful! I have a box of vintage facial tissues for your display, meant to give them to you in June. They've never been opened but have alternating pink and white tissues...

Neal seems to be keeping the kitchen nice and tidy ;-)

 

[jasonl]

And a Honeywell digital round thermostat. I had one in my trailer and it worked wonderfully. Kept the whole house at the precise temperature.

Awesome kitchen! All you need now is a jukebox.

http://automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/...0@Lookig Out.jpg&dir=/COLLECTIONS/_NEWKITCHEN

 

[dalangdon]

Fabulous Kitchen!

AND what looks to be a beautiful Paul McCobb dining table in the dining room. Talk about classy!

I lived in Minneapolis for a year, and usually stop over there on my roundabout way home for Chistmas (I take Amtrak Seattle - Chicago, do my Christmas shopping in Chicago - with a holiday pilgramage to Trader Vics in the Palmer House - and then Amtrak to Omaha) Minneapolis has got some beautiful neighborhoods, and it looks like you live in one of them

 

[petek]

What can I say, I love it. It's exactly the kind of kitchen I want to redo mine like along a similar vein. You look at the first picture before shot and go "well it's an ok kitchen I guess, nothing special" then what a difference afterwards. That's the problem with my kitchen, it's just ho hum and boring. Of course I especially like all the small kitchen gadetry, one can never have enough of those to mix and match at whim, not to mention the vintage stove and fridge in those colors. Grouping the gadgets for show excellent, no need to hide them.
Just last week I stopped in a paint store, picked up a Pittsburgh Paint brochure and sample cards which shows 3 examples of the same kitchen done in 3 different "pop art" color schemes and one of them is painted in colors very similar to your selection.
BTW the house looks beautiful from the street as well with the stonework and awnings, and that chimneywork is super.

 

[Brent-Aucoin]

So Lovely!

Robert, Robert, Robert,
I want to move in!
You house looks so nice, and comfortable, and so darn clean!
You kitchen is great! I would spend so much time in there! Reading a book for instance.
Your home is very beautiful, and thank you so much for the pictures!
Brent

 

[Unimatic1140]

Hi everyone, thanks for everyone’s kind words.

Terry those timers are from the late 60’s, I didn’t realize that Lux made so many colors either until I found that display.

Austin, I’ve been collecting vintage supermarket products from the estate sales over the past 10 years. These boxes are really hard to find because people generally didn’t hang onto a box of Cheerios for 40 years.

Lawrence, yes most people pick the appliances to match the kitchen colors, we picked the colors to match the appliances.

Jeff, we found the sink at an outside junk yard in northern Minnesota. It was covered in dirt, but when I brushed away the dirt I could see the shine that it had on it. It looks like it was never installed. So $15 later we hauled it home and saved it for a few years until we were ready to install it. I just love it, I bought a NOS Pink version of this exact same sink from Bethann, so now I need to figure out how to install them both.

Al you have good eye for vacuums, I had to vacuum up the dog hair before I dare take pictures with my Tan G. With dear Gladys our black lab in the house I have to (or more truthfully should be) vacuum constantly.

Don, I’ll take a close up picture of that little door and explain in a few minutes.

John we love the awnings, they are fun, we‘re not the only gay house on the block so we have to keep up with the Jones‘! We put the awnings up every April and they come down in late November before the snow come. The problem is the ugly brown trim, I want to go Sea-Foam Green and Neal wants Chartreuse. I hope I win.

Greg, behave and don’t get me started

Dan, very good eye you have for furniture. Yes we have a Paul McCobb dining room set which I love from around 1950.

Thanks again everyone for all your kind words.

Dan here is our Paul McCobb table and chairs, these house pictures were taken about six months ago…

http://automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/[email protected]&dir=/COLLECTIONS/_HOUSE

 

[compwhiz128]

Hold up!!!

What you should do is make a 50's retro style computer case XD That would be soooo cool! It could be like yellow and turqoise(sp?) and have like a "push to start button" under the power button in some fancy font. Ooooo that sounds sooooo cool!!!

 

[Unimatic1140]

The little door is the laundry chute to down the basement.

 

[spiraclean]

Simply Perfect

Hi Robert,
I just love your kitchen, the Frigidaire Turquoise looks amazing. You have great taste and a beautiful home. Thank you for sharing.

All the best.
Hugh

 

[scott55405]

I got to see this lovely kitchen just before the convention, but it is particularly striking, juxtaposed against the before picture!

 

[Kevinpreston3]

I wasn't familiar with

Paul McCobb. Now I realize I like Paul McCobb.

When I first saw the pics, I thought laundry chute. No way! It is. Man I wish we had basements here in CA. In would go a laundry chute.

In dining room number picture number 5, do I spy Starburst dishes?

 

[petek]

And a Beaver gumball machine by the front door?