Seasons Greetings from Versatronic

[Versatronic]

Seasons Greetings to everyone in Applianceville.

There’s a long story about the light below. I tried for quite a while to get my hands on it but it was “Not For Sale!”. But I won out in the end and purchased it about two years ago, but I didn’t have a place to hang it last year. But this year I do. It has never been out of the original box, until now. When I plugged it in, all three lights came on. Success!

 

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Mini aluminum Pom-Pom tree.

So here in my kitchen is a mini-aluminum Pom-Pom tree. Yes, there was a table top version. Finding vintage turquoise colored ornaments to go with the kitchen is not easy. Behind the tree is what Santa brought me this year. I guess there was a shortage of lumps of coal.

 

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My little grass shack

Guests around the holidays usually gravitate to the tiki lounge, so I have to erect a mini Pom-Pom in there as well.

 

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Oh bring us, some...

Of course, I’m expected to serve my famous figgy pudding. So, I need this oversized metal tray to deliver all that goodness. (I said figgy, ok?)

 

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Buttons, buttons, whose got the buttons?

So here’s the tree. This is the second year for this particular tree. I found it new in the box, so it still looks perfect. It’s in a vintage rotating stand that has an electrical outlet on it for your color wheel. No only does the stand rotate, but you can flick a switch and it plays music like a music box. I forget the tune, I think it’s “How Dry I Am” or something. Also got the color wheel going. Last year as I was carrying a color wheel down from the attic, I dropped it and smashed it to bits. Lucky I had a back-up. I can always be counted on to break 2 or 3 beautiful vintage items a year.

Anyway, between the tree spinning and the lights and the music and the colors and the peyote, whew!

 

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Disco Christmas

Here’s the tree without the flash of the camera. I have enough vintage ornaments to decorate 5 or 6 full size trees. This year, my GF went crazy with the red disco ball lights. A friend of mine found boxes and boxes of these things on the curb awaiting trash pick-up and snagged them for me. Well, she put tons of these things on before I even knew what happened. And I was like “Whoa, Whoa, what about my sputniks, what about my…?.”. So, this year I basically have a red disco ball tree.

 

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I wish everyone a Merry Christmas.

Here’s a shot of a vintage Noma candelabra that I found new in the box. The bubble lights are bubbling away. To the right is a cool atomic looking Christmas light that I also found new in the box. I love when that happens.

I wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Next job, pack up my Secret Santa stuff.

 

[toggleswitch]

Very festive!

HO HO HO!

 

[frigilux]

Love the tiki lounge; Are all your kitchen appliances turquoise, Mike? Pictures, pictures!

 

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Glorious Turquoise

Hi Frigilux. I've listened to Pinky Salute a couple of times and enjoyed it very much (I'm listening to it right now). Thanks for sending that along. You should have my care package by now or should get it very soon.

One day I will put together a virtual tour of my place and post it in a permanent place like on my personal website, but I won't get time to do that for at least 5 months. I just don't have time to put something like that together with my overwhelming work schedule right now.

No, my large appliances are not all turquoise, just the fridge. I have a white DW and a SS Built-in oven and cook-top. I'll throw up a couple of kitchen pictures for you in a couple of minutes.

P.S. As far as small appliances, I have a turquoise version of every small appliance except for a waffle iron.

 

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Kitchen Angle 1

Frigilux, here’re four pictures of my kitchen from different angles to give you a feel for the room. I own a modest ranch house, but the kitchen is huge by today’s standards. The generous counter space gives me a great opportunity to display vintage smalls.

This first photo is from an angle that I have never put up on AW.org before. Things to note: The coffee maker is a ‘70s vintage West Bend. PeteK posted an old catalog not to long ago and my coffee maker was in it. The microwave to the right of that will be replaced with a vintage Radarange on this coming Wednesday, which will fit the kitchen much better. The ceiling is metal. The walls are baked porcelain over metal. That sputnik light on the ceiling took me hours and hours of restoration. It doesn’t take too kindly to modern 35 watt floods so I’m going to have to pull the last remaining floods and stick in 7 and a half watt bulbs.

The turquoise plastic canisters seem to be the canisters of choice for AW.org members. I’m not surprised by their good taste, but I am surprised that so many have these because they are rare as anything. The cabinets appear darker in the photo than they actually are.

 

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Kitchen Angle 2

Angle two is from the corner we just viewed. You can see that the DW is white, not turquoise and you can see the built-in over and the cook top. There was a dead socket in the upper right where the clock is. I got that reactivated and that’s why I have a place for my vintage Seasons Greetings light this year.

 

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Kitchen Angle 3

Angle three is from the corner we just viewed, toward the kitchen table and original banquette. Since the ceiling is metal, the Nelson Bubble Light is hung with a magnet to avoid drilling holes in the ceiling.

 

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Kitchen Angle 4

And the last angle is from near the built-in oven down the hallway out of the kitchen. I hope you enjoyed the snapshots.

 

[dalangdon]

Your kitchen is so cool! I'm glad you kept the cabinets, walls, ceiling and banquette, as they are certainly unique. I've never seen those kinds of walls and ceilings in a residential kitchen, but it makes sense, and is very sharp-looking.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[drmitch]

Mike, your home is AMAZING! One of the big magazines should do an article on it! I mean it, Its truly a showplace!

 

[frigilux]

Wow, that is one beautiful, big-ass kitchen, Mike! I would kill for all that counter space. The banquette and Hydra-esque overhead lighting fixtures are too cool.

 

[Versatronic]

Thanks guys

I appreciate the feedback. Especially from you Dan. Your house is just so fantastic.

 

[Cybrvanr]

That is a totally cool home! Looking at these pictures reminds me of Christmas of past years. My grandmother had one of those neat shiney trees like that. Really makes me remember times when I was young unwraping gifts on the floor with my sister. We had wood paneling similar to what's in your tiki lounge there in the basement den, along with crystal blue linoleum tile, and danish furniture simliar to yours. Defnitely brings back memories of family gatherings back when I was a young un

The color wheel really adds to it!. That kitchen is truly amazing in it's own right too!