autowasherfreak
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I've decided that I want all harvest gold appliances in my kitchen. The hardest things to find will be the stove and refrigerator, but I keep looking.
My Kitchen is Going Harvest Gold.
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I just got a 30" Hardwick in HG fantastic shape. I have HG panels for KA dishwasher too.
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Sunbeam MixMaster, and the 2nd spice cake unfrosted.
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My KitchenAid Custom 21 has harvest gold front panels, but the sides and back are almond and are scratched up pretty bad. A friend of mine told me that Sherwin Williams can match colors and put in spray cans, so I might do that for the KitchenAid and Whirlpool.
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I just won a Osterizer Blender Cyclo-trol Eight in harvest gold, on eBay. I will post pics once get it.
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I found a set of harvest gold Club Aluminum cookware on eBay, but I think there will be a bidding war on those. Also found a harvest gold crockpot, Sunbeam percolator that I might bid on as well.
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I won the Sunbeam percolator!
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Harvest Gold stuff
I have a really great Supreme Aluminum pan (it's just the one, though)and a Sunbeam 5-speed hand mixer in Harvest Gold. Email me directly if you might be interested and I will get some pictures on the weekend - hubby has politely suggested it's time for me to do some early spring cleaning!
Sigh - Harvest Gold was the main colour in our kitchen when I was a brat. The range and refrigerator (still working) got sold at auction 3 years ago when my father gave up his farm in Ontario...
I have a really great Supreme Aluminum pan (it's just the one, though)and a Sunbeam 5-speed hand mixer in Harvest Gold. Email me directly if you might be interested and I will get some pictures on the weekend - hubby has politely suggested it's time for me to do some early spring cleaning!
Sigh - Harvest Gold was the main colour in our kitchen when I was a brat. The range and refrigerator (still working) got sold at auction 3 years ago when my father gave up his farm in Ontario...
YAY Jim. You'll have beautiful harvest gold sunny days in your kitchen, regardless of the weather outside.
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Paul, I'm definitely interested in the pan and mixer, will email you when I get home from work.
I want to repaint the kitchen and suggestions as to what color to go along with the appliances?
I want to repaint the kitchen and suggestions as to what color to go along with the appliances?
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Here is a photo of my 1970's Harvest Gold Westinghouse Refrigerator for fun....
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Had a Harvest Gold GE fridge and pushbutton range with self-cleaning oven at the same time, they went together, hopefully to someone who will love them. They were reasonable too. Broke my heart I couldn't get them.
Had a Harvest Gold GE fridge and pushbutton range with self-cleaning oven at the same time, they went together, hopefully to someone who will love them. They were reasonable too. Broke my heart I couldn't get them.
Jim, harvest gold can be a difficult color to complement. A few years ago a friend redid his kitchen and wanted a "modern retro" design (70's look, with modern functionality). He experimented with harvest gold, coppertone and avocado appliances, and eventually decided to go with harvest gold.
He tried many different wall paint colors and wallpapers, coutertop surfaces and floor tiles etc, and it took him almost a year to come up with a design he was happy with. I'm going from memory here, but for wall color I think he tried a light shade of pink, purple, sage green and off-white, with the pink looking the best by far. His backsplashes were weathered brick veneer and the cabinets were a medium oak with antiqued brass hardware.
He tried many different wall paint colors and wallpapers, coutertop surfaces and floor tiles etc, and it took him almost a year to come up with a design he was happy with. I'm going from memory here, but for wall color I think he tried a light shade of pink, purple, sage green and off-white, with the pink looking the best by far. His backsplashes were weathered brick veneer and the cabinets were a medium oak with antiqued brass hardware.
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Suddenly, it's 1970
The house that I grew up in (and parents still live there) was built in 1970. The kitchen is still harvest gold - oven and refrigerator are GE and still going strong. This dishwasher died years ago and is now white. Sink is even harvest gold. Cabinets are cherry - were refinished about 5 years ago. Countertops are white with gold flecks. When I lived there, the kitchen was carpeted...small clover pattern...very, very busy. It's now hardwood. For the most part, it's virtually unchanged from 1970. Honestly, unless the stove and refrigerator die, they will never replace them!
The house that I grew up in (and parents still live there) was built in 1970. The kitchen is still harvest gold - oven and refrigerator are GE and still going strong. This dishwasher died years ago and is now white. Sink is even harvest gold. Cabinets are cherry - were refinished about 5 years ago. Countertops are white with gold flecks. When I lived there, the kitchen was carpeted...small clover pattern...very, very busy. It's now hardwood. For the most part, it's virtually unchanged from 1970. Honestly, unless the stove and refrigerator die, they will never replace them!
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Jim, I like that fridge. There is a GE side by side in avocado being stored in the building next door to me, if it were harvest gold I would be finding a way to get it into my house.
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There is a GE side by side in avocado ......
Jim is that GE refrigerator like the one in the Brady Bunch kitchen? Ice and Water in the door ? Those were great refrigerators. We got one in 1971 and had it for over 20 years before we sold it. They can be painted. Here is photo of one in white or almond color.
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Jim is that GE refrigerator like the one in the Brady Bunch kitchen? Ice and Water in the door ? Those were great refrigerators. We got one in 1971 and had it for over 20 years before we sold it. They can be painted. Here is photo of one in white or almond color.
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I'm not sure if it has ice and water in the door, it's been awhile since I looked at it.
Harvest Gold is still out there to be found. I just sold a top mount Frigidaire refrigerator, circa 1975 or so.
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The Reefer...
...Will probably be the hardest thing to find, but as Kenny just pointed out, they're still out there. I personally always liked the one in Suzanne Pleshette's kitchen on The Bob Newhart Show. It was an Amana side-by-side like the one in the pic, only Harvest instead of Avocado. Very chic in '72!
...Will probably be the hardest thing to find, but as Kenny just pointed out, they're still out there. I personally always liked the one in Suzanne Pleshette's kitchen on The Bob Newhart Show. It was an Amana side-by-side like the one in the pic, only Harvest instead of Avocado. Very chic in '72!
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Water/Ice In Door:
Was new for '69, I think it was, when GE debuted its new Americana side-by-side. Friends of mine in Houston have an original one, in a house built jointly by GE and Houston Power and Light as a show house:
http://www.jetsetmodern.com/mm1.htm
Was new for '69, I think it was, when GE debuted its new Americana side-by-side. Friends of mine in Houston have an original one, in a house built jointly by GE and Houston Power and Light as a show house:
http://www.jetsetmodern.com/mm1.htm
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Another Shot...
...Of the Amana model seen on The Bob Newhart Show. This one's actually available, but funds and transport are a problem right now. Too bad, because this is a dream fridge for me. It's such a dream fridge that I'm even okay with the Almond colour of this one!
...Of the Amana model seen on The Bob Newhart Show. This one's actually available, but funds and transport are a problem right now. Too bad, because this is a dream fridge for me. It's such a dream fridge that I'm even okay with the Almond colour of this one!
Yes,
The Brady's refrigerator was a GE SxS with Custom Dispenser in Avocado. I wanted one soooooo bad, but my parents wouldn't get it.
The Brady's refrigerator was a GE SxS with Custom Dispenser in Avocado. I wanted one soooooo bad, but my parents wouldn't get it.
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How's this for a Harvest Gold range??
I always wanted one of these two-oven 'Americana' style ones!
This one is in Oklahoma, unfortunately...
http://cgi.ebay.ca/Retro-Vintage-Do...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4a9e51978d
I always wanted one of these two-oven 'Americana' style ones!
This one is in Oklahoma, unfortunately...
http://cgi.ebay.ca/Retro-Vintage-Do...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4a9e51978d
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Paul:
I had exactly that range, in that colour, in a house I rented for a short time in the early '90s. It was a phenomenal performer, and an excellent use of space. A 40-inch double-oven P*7 GE is always going to be my most preferred range, but that Americana was a real pleasure to use.
I had exactly that range, in that colour, in a house I rented for a short time in the early '90s. It was a phenomenal performer, and an excellent use of space. A 40-inch double-oven P*7 GE is always going to be my most preferred range, but that Americana was a real pleasure to use.
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I would love to to have that stove too, but it would have to be gas, no 220v in the kitchen. I also won a Westbend electric skillet (maybe two of them). Can't wait to get everything set up on the counter!
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Momma always said keep underneath it clean, clean clean.
PAUL:
~I always wanted one of these two-oven 'Americana' style ones! This one is in Oklahoma, unfortunately...
If you want one in almond, shoot me an email! I'll let my friends (Long Island, NY state) know not to send it to the Krusher. They will be remodeling at some point.
Loves me the rotisserie in the upper oven!
Whn I showed my clean-freak OCD friend [he is LITERALLY folks, I'm not fibbin'] how to unplug the surface elements he was THRILLED to be able to clean under them.
PAUL:
~I always wanted one of these two-oven 'Americana' style ones! This one is in Oklahoma, unfortunately...
If you want one in almond, shoot me an email! I'll let my friends (Long Island, NY state) know not to send it to the Krusher. They will be remodeling at some point.
Loves me the rotisserie in the upper oven!
Whn I showed my clean-freak OCD friend [he is LITERALLY folks, I'm not fibbin'] how to unplug the surface elements he was THRILLED to be able to clean under them.
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Toggles:
If you really want to make your friend happy, you may be able to show him something else he doesn't know.
On the Americana I used, there were removable panels in the upper oven's walls; you could put them (and the racks, if you didn't care about smooth and shiny) in the lower P*7 oven.
The guy that house was rented from had bought the range new, and he was stunned to learn from me that years of hand-cleaning the upper oven had been unnecessary.
That feature may vary from year to year, and/or model to model, but if your friend doesn't know about it, it'd be worth checking to see if his has it.
If you really want to make your friend happy, you may be able to show him something else he doesn't know.
On the Americana I used, there were removable panels in the upper oven's walls; you could put them (and the racks, if you didn't care about smooth and shiny) in the lower P*7 oven.
The guy that house was rented from had bought the range new, and he was stunned to learn from me that years of hand-cleaning the upper oven had been unnecessary.
That feature may vary from year to year, and/or model to model, but if your friend doesn't know about it, it'd be worth checking to see if his has it.
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