verizonbear
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Interesting Kitchen layout??? I wonder what professional kitchen designers would think of the positioning the washer/dryer under a wall oven lol
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I also wondered about the wisdom of having the GE combo under the oven, you had better not be baking a cake while the combo is spinning to say nothing of having the phone so close by.
I also wondered about the wisdom of having the GE combo under the oven, you had better not be baking a cake while the combo is spinning to say nothing of having the phone so close by.
supremewhirlpol
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I thought a member here installed a complete GE kitchen in their house. Does anyone know who that member is? Got any pictures?
mickeyd
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I, too, am wondering
about just how common kitchen laundering was in the States. And whether prevalent today in new homes. Were/are the trends regional or more national?
I know that Tim, Robert, Mike and our UK friends all wash in the kitchen. Yours truly delights in it.
Who else washes in the kitchen?
about just how common kitchen laundering was in the States. And whether prevalent today in new homes. Were/are the trends regional or more national?
I know that Tim, Robert, Mike and our UK friends all wash in the kitchen. Yours truly delights in it.
Who else washes in the kitchen?
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My folks built a small ranch in 1960, with a GE kitchen. Wall oven had a window and a rotisserie attachment and a thermometer for roasts that displayed temp on the control console. Next to the oven was a 4 burner cooktop, stainless. The sink had a GE disposall, and there was a GE built-in dishwasher, the tub pulled out and it had a metal blade impeller. The fridge was nothing special, no ice dispenser or anything. Both the wall oven and the dishwasher were very pale pink, nothing extreme, but for some reason I remember a white fridge. With 7 kids and Mom and Dad, appliances didn't last too long, not their fault. Laundry was in the hall to the garage, I don't remember the original GE washer but we had a Frigidaire 1-18 by the early 70's, when my appliance memory kicked in.
The weirdest thing about the house, which I've never seen again, was the hot water tank. It was under the kitchen counter like a dishwasher, white metal appliance front with a formica top matched to the counters. It was electric like the whole house, 50 gallon. By the time it had to be replaced after at least 15 years, we had to get a standard tall-boy tank and take up a nearby closet instead. I don't have a picture of any of the GE stuff, just kid's memories.
My folks built a small ranch in 1960, with a GE kitchen. Wall oven had a window and a rotisserie attachment and a thermometer for roasts that displayed temp on the control console. Next to the oven was a 4 burner cooktop, stainless. The sink had a GE disposall, and there was a GE built-in dishwasher, the tub pulled out and it had a metal blade impeller. The fridge was nothing special, no ice dispenser or anything. Both the wall oven and the dishwasher were very pale pink, nothing extreme, but for some reason I remember a white fridge. With 7 kids and Mom and Dad, appliances didn't last too long, not their fault. Laundry was in the hall to the garage, I don't remember the original GE washer but we had a Frigidaire 1-18 by the early 70's, when my appliance memory kicked in.
The weirdest thing about the house, which I've never seen again, was the hot water tank. It was under the kitchen counter like a dishwasher, white metal appliance front with a formica top matched to the counters. It was electric like the whole house, 50 gallon. By the time it had to be replaced after at least 15 years, we had to get a standard tall-boy tank and take up a nearby closet instead. I don't have a picture of any of the GE stuff, just kid's memories.
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Paging Turqouise Dude!
I do believe they are referring to your beautiful Ogden kitchen.
I do believe they are referring to your beautiful Ogden kitchen.
Heres his famous kitchen......outstanding and beautiful.....I wish they still made kitchens like this....especially having the washer back in the kitchen again
Combo built in............
Its not so much the placement of the oven I am worried about as much as the way they have it built in to the wall. Doesn't look like it was very easy to get at for service and I think we all know that the GE combo wasn't known for its "years of trouble free use". As for having the washer and dryer in the kitchen I guess I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand I do believe it would be nice to have the machines that close to the center of activity so the person operating them could still be included in the family as they folded and so forth. However, the idea of dirty laundry in the kitchen also makes me not like the idea. I have always felt that the washer and dryer should be in a room of there own near the bedrooms so that the constant back and forth of laundry wouldn't be such a long trek. Just my opinion.
Its not so much the placement of the oven I am worried about as much as the way they have it built in to the wall. Doesn't look like it was very easy to get at for service and I think we all know that the GE combo wasn't known for its "years of trouble free use". As for having the washer and dryer in the kitchen I guess I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand I do believe it would be nice to have the machines that close to the center of activity so the person operating them could still be included in the family as they folded and so forth. However, the idea of dirty laundry in the kitchen also makes me not like the idea. I have always felt that the washer and dryer should be in a room of there own near the bedrooms so that the constant back and forth of laundry wouldn't be such a long trek. Just my opinion.
cornutt
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I don't recall many houses in the Southeast having the laundry in the kitchen when I was growing up. Houses that had garages usually had the machines in the garage; houses with carports often had a laundry room (really just a glorified closet) off of the carport. Older houses frequently had the machines (well, usually just a washer) on a screened-in back porch; the screens would be covered with heavy plastic in the winter so that it wouldn't freeze. Another common setup was a closet off of a hallway, sometimes near the kitchen but never in it. I recall one house that had laundry in the kitchen, and it was set up for a combo; there wasn't room for a separate dryer. The kitchen was a galley kitchen and fairly small; there wouldn't have been any room to fold clothes in there.
My dad had one of those under-counter water heaters in the house he lived in when I was in college. It was over 40 years old and still plugging along. That house had had a back-porch setup, but when dad bought the house, he did some major reno and converted a bathroom to the laundry room.
My dad had one of those under-counter water heaters in the house he lived in when I was in college. It was over 40 years old and still plugging along. That house had had a back-porch setup, but when dad bought the house, he did some major reno and converted a bathroom to the laundry room.
As a child, my points of reference were Houston or Dallas. we had friends who lived near NASA that bought like a 1948 or 1949 new house. The washer (a Unimatic) was located at the opposit end of the kitchen, along with the Frigidaire Ironer. Now it seems like there was a period in the early to late 1950s where ranch-style houses built in Dallas, if the laundry was inside, many of them were with the washer in the kitchen, at least. And several of my mom's friends had the washer at least in the kitchen. Friends of mine from college had friends from church who bought one of these period houses in Dallas. You guessed it, the LK set was in the kitchen, I just drooled because (1) they were in the kitchen and (2) it was a harvest gold LK set--and this was well after DDs had been on the market for 10 years. My cousins bought a mid 1950s house just a couple of miles from where we lived. The house had it's original KD12 or KD14 still in the kitchen. There was also a washer connection in the kitchen and a dryer at one time had been put in the garage. they were now located in an alcove in the hall bath that took over most of the adjoining bedroom's closet. In some ways I wish my kitchen and laundry room were all continuous flow open instead of a wall/door giving semblance of separateness. Saw several condos with SpaceMatse in the kitchen that were built in the 1970s. And I've noticed some apartment floorplans have the laundry in the kitchen, albeit at the end, next to a wall, and washer and dryer each on opposite sides facig each other.
Turqouise Dude; that is one gorgeous kitchen. How lomg did it take you to find it and where? I am drooling!! I am fairly new to the site and never saw it before. The way the turqouise matches your choice of new woodgrain cabinets is also superb. Love everything about that GE electric combo, I had no idea it came all in one piece. I have a similar hutch like you have in your dining area, inherited from my mother in law that I love and is in the basement waiting for a new home in our new home's kitchen.
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I certainly agree Dave that I don't want my main laundry facilities in the kitchen, I don't ever think having the laundry in the kitchen was considered great planing but certainly worked well for smaller homes, families vacation homes etc. Paul I loved seeing your kitchen video set to music what a great way to wake up, you do seem to have a GE theme going on there you should send this video to GE maybe they would give you a new GE kitchen LOL. All that said I do enjoy my 1966 black GE kitchen combo, after we hosted our car clubs Xmas party I washed & dried over 80 cloth dinner napkins in just over 1 hour folded them and put away, so it does come in handy.
I certainly agree Dave that I don't want my main laundry facilities in the kitchen, I don't ever think having the laundry in the kitchen was considered great planing but certainly worked well for smaller homes, families vacation homes etc. Paul I loved seeing your kitchen video set to music what a great way to wake up, you do seem to have a GE theme going on there you should send this video to GE maybe they would give you a new GE kitchen LOL. All that said I do enjoy my 1966 black GE kitchen combo, after we hosted our car clubs Xmas party I washed & dried over 80 cloth dinner napkins in just over 1 hour folded them and put away, so it does come in handy.
Many post WWII homes, especially those built without basements, had the washer in the kitchen. There generally was not room for a dryer unless it was part of a stacked pair. Even the shelter mags of the time show this. We had a basement in our 1955 home in the Atlanta suburbs, but the builder wanted to put the washer in the kitchen which was stupid with a walk out basement and the clothesline in the back yard. Most of the homes in our neighborhood did not have basements. My parents were from the north and could not imagine a house without a basement.
What you do not see in the GE kitchen ad is that there is probably a closet behind the oven and the combo. Since the combo is a built-in model, it would have had easily removable panels to get at the guts so many components at the back might have been able to be serviced with the machine in place. The GE built-in combo also was secured to the floor to keep it in place. As for the oven above it, just think of the installation as the original Cook 'N Stir appliance.
What you do not see in the GE kitchen ad is that there is probably a closet behind the oven and the combo. Since the combo is a built-in model, it would have had easily removable panels to get at the guts so many components at the back might have been able to be serviced with the machine in place. The GE built-in combo also was secured to the floor to keep it in place. As for the oven above it, just think of the installation as the original Cook 'N Stir appliance.
Washers in kitchens are common at this longitude, because of the occasional freezing weather. After some renovation in the past our old house has the standpipe drain in the kitchen, but the faucets are long gone. There was also a disconnected 220 dryer outlet in the pantry. I beleive it was a 70's renovation/add on that produced the laundry room we have today. alr2903
Most of the GE combo's of that vintage that I actually saw had been installed in NYC co-op kitchens uptown, where people had the money and ability to run the lines for it. Their were two or three kitchen companies that used these units as a way to augment their proposals and pocket books.Ironically, almost all of them, by the time I saw them, had been broken for years and remained, built into the kitchens and unused because the owners didn't want to bother with them. The rich bitches would just load their "girl" up with one more job.
You guys do know that those kitchens in the illustrations actually existed as mock-up modular kitchen somewhere in Appliance Park (they had one in NYC too). They'd move the appliances in and out according to the designs and what year it was. St. Charles did the same thing for a while with their showrooms in the Architect's building on 58th Street.
You guys do know that those kitchens in the illustrations actually existed as mock-up modular kitchen somewhere in Appliance Park (they had one in NYC too). They'd move the appliances in and out according to the designs and what year it was. St. Charles did the same thing for a while with their showrooms in the Architect's building on 58th Street.
mickeyd
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Appreciate the Inputs
Where I was born, the homes had no basements; all laundry was either kitchen- bath- or alcove, etc-bound. Where we moved when I was 7, the homes all had basements; no one I knew did laundry anywhere but there.
The TV shows--I know, it's TV-- had machines in the kitchen, and from what I've learned here, thanks to your generous posts, laundry placement is indeed regional.
When I joined Aworg (5th anniversary 1/1/11, yes we had cakes, both reg'lar AND suds), seeing Mike's kitchen beauties and Louis's bathroom gems, I remembered the joy of being with my beloved aunt Margaret and washing in the kitchen in her Easy, and then in her huge bathroom where a Multimatic was plumbed in.
With the deck right off the kitchen, and clothes lines at the ready, I immediately moved a machine into the kitchen, and have had one or more in operation there ever since, cycling them in and out depending on the season and mood. Prefer having them in the center of the action, much more intimate and fun. But so is the basement and so is the garage. Why not have it all?! ;'D
Thank you
Where I was born, the homes had no basements; all laundry was either kitchen- bath- or alcove, etc-bound. Where we moved when I was 7, the homes all had basements; no one I knew did laundry anywhere but there.
The TV shows--I know, it's TV-- had machines in the kitchen, and from what I've learned here, thanks to your generous posts, laundry placement is indeed regional.
When I joined Aworg (5th anniversary 1/1/11, yes we had cakes, both reg'lar AND suds), seeing Mike's kitchen beauties and Louis's bathroom gems, I remembered the joy of being with my beloved aunt Margaret and washing in the kitchen in her Easy, and then in her huge bathroom where a Multimatic was plumbed in.
With the deck right off the kitchen, and clothes lines at the ready, I immediately moved a machine into the kitchen, and have had one or more in operation there ever since, cycling them in and out depending on the season and mood. Prefer having them in the center of the action, much more intimate and fun. But so is the basement and so is the garage. Why not have it all?! ;'D
Thank you
mickeyd
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:-O
I wonder if any anyone knows of a washer housed in the bedroom?
I wonder if any anyone knows of a washer housed in the bedroom?
Washers in kitchens or rooms other than the basement laundry were rare here. Sometimes they were installed in kitchens or bathrooms in very old homes with no basements or dirt-floor root cellars. As a kid looking through old magazines, I always a TOL Whirlpool set with the wood paneling trims for my bedroom - I had a big walk-in closet and they would have fit perfectly!
cornutt
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Laundry in the bedroom
It was a fad here in the '80s in higher-end homes to have the laundry within the master suite. It would usually be in the master bath, but I recall seeing some installations with it in the master closet, and some that just had an alcove opening off the bedroom itself.
It was a fad here in the '80s in higher-end homes to have the laundry within the master suite. It would usually be in the master bath, but I recall seeing some installations with it in the master closet, and some that just had an alcove opening off the bedroom itself.
