Westinghouse dishwasher

[goatfarmer]

Part of a complete kitchen.

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[tomturbomatic]

What do you suppose is the story behind that kitchen?

 

[jamiel]

Probably early 1970s...clearly the choicest product of the kitchen designer's art of the time.

 

[rp2813]

I think the story is an epic saga involving remarkably poor taste.  The sconces put it over the top in that regard.

 

Sad commentary when the Z-Brick treatment is the best looking element of the design scheme. 

 

[circlew]

The cabinets themselves are above average quality, and not bad looking. I don't care for the fake "colonial" accents, but they could be removed. QuakerMaid cabinets were rather expensive.

 

[qsd-dan]

Get out the straight jacket...

I could easily be content with that kitchen as-is.

 

[appnut]

I feel the same way Dan.

 

[firedome]

Quaker Maid...

as mentioned made excellent high quality cabinets from the 1940s to early '90s. The folks across the street had it in their custom kitchen. It's still made, but under new ownership, not sure the quality or even the factory where it's made, is the same though:

https://www.quakermaidcabinetry.com/

As for the style and the "Faux-lonial" look as it's been fondly called on retrorenovation, while it might be looked down on by some, in Primitive and Early American styles (this kitchen is a bit more formal than that, with it's rope pilasters etc. Knotty pine would be more true to form) in particular it's considered to be just fun, warm, and nostalgic in some quarters.

A side benefit is that since everyone and their brother wants the cliche MCM these days, very good quality solid wood furniture in other styles is still available for very reasonable prices, and is much better made than everything but the very best stuff available today. Here on the East coast it was everywhere in the '40s to '70s. Our home may have had had formal antiques in the LR, but every other room, including the kitchen, was maple Early American style. Another benefit is for durability rock maple is one of the hardest furniture woods available.

 

[firedome]

and back to the dishwasher...

another sign of the quality here, if not the dishwasher itself (where's the KA?!) is the custom made matching front panel made to the design of the cabinets, a nice design touch. Not sure those era Westinghouse d/ws were all that great though!

 

[DADoES]

 
Ad says the KitchenAid compactor is an Amana ...

 

[tomturbomatic]

Thanks for the input.

It sure was not made for any large meal cooking; you'd play hell trying to prepare and clean up after a meal for 4 with that tiny sink and the oven that requires a kneeler to get food in and out of. It looks like some showroom kitchen that showed every lurid cabinet feature and was later transplanted into space above a garage to make a vacation rental garage apartment, maybe.

 

[DADoES]

 
Oh my.  Took me several peruses to clarify that this is the oven, not a microwave.  Ugh.  The pics are rather-much wanting, doesn't identify where in the configuration the compactor and oven reside.

 

[luxflairguy]

That's the original Jennair oven! Under counter ? I don't think so! Tacky kitchen? YES! Designer done ? I think so, but with NO taste!

 

[rp2813]

I really would like to see a picture of the designer.  I can only imagine what her outfit, hair, make-up and accessories must have looked like.  Edna Boil comes to mind.

 

 

 

 

[combo52]

Vintage Kitchen

You hit the nail on the head with reply #13 Ralph.

 

Yes the cabinets are good quality, Quaker-Maid cabinets are from Pennsylvania but the design of the kitchen was and is very tacky and not all that practical.

 

You can tell the kitchen was never used because the WH DW was a total POS then and now and it would have destroyed the front panels from all the leaking it would have done if it had actually ever been used, this DW would be from around 1975 and was an early WCI abomination, I remember doing service calls on these when they were just a few years old and they were leaking in at least 6 different places. { why there was't a KA in that kitchen we will never know ]

 

Hopefully someone can repurpose the cabinets, the Jennair CT is pretty good along with the KA compactor.

 

John L.

 

[combo52]

Vintage Kitchen

You hit the nail on the head with reply #13 Ralph.

 

Yes the cabinets are good quality, Quaker-Maid cabinets are from Pennsylvania but the design of the kitchen was and is very tacky and not all that practical.

 

You can tell the kitchen was never used because the WH DW was a total POS then and now and it would have destroyed the front panels from all the leaking it would have done if it had actually ever been used, this DW would be from around 1975 and was an early WCI abomination, I remember doing service calls on these when they were just a few years old and they were leaking in at least 6 different places. { why there was't a KA in that kitchen we will never know ]

 

Hopefully someone can repurpose the cabinets, the Jennair CT is pretty good along with the KA compactor.

 

John L.

 

[Chetlaham]

Tacky

Why was everything so tacky back then? Like what is the purpose of those ovens being embedded in brick?

 

And why were their potted plants everywhere?

 

[chachp]

Good quality bad design.

 

<span style="font-family: helvetica;">Looks like a better quality kitchen but it has one of my biggest pet peeves.  How convenient is that sink when the dishwasher is open?  </span>

 

<span style="font-family: helvetica;">Years ago when I was redoing my Condo in Chicago I remember having an argument with the contractor over the placement of the dishwasher and the sink.  The kitchen had a corner sink which I compromised on because of something to do with the plumbing but he insisted the dishwasher needed to be right next to the sink which meant you'd have to squeeze in when the door was open.  I insisted he put a cabinet in between and he argued and agued with me and did it in the end.  After it was done, he agreed it was the right move.  I think anyone designing a kitchen or any room for that matter, needs to be an expert in using that area not just in the design.  Usually, only someone who cooks a lot would recognize something like this in advance.  </span>

 

<span style="font-family: helvetica;">Don't get me started on the placement of that oven.  How the hell are you supposed to use that thing?  Imagine your 20+ lb. turkey at Thanksgiving.</span>

 

[norgeway]

Reminds me

Of all the 70s nightmares i saw as a kid when this stuff was new, I hated that style then, and i hate it now, Kitchen cabinets are supposed to be steel with lots of chrome trim, preferably pink, with linoleum tops.and dishwashers are supposed to say Kitchen Aid by Hobart!