Comments on: 61 Mamie Pink Kitchens: “Two-tone” is the theme today http://retrorenovation.com/2008/04/04/61-mamie-pink-kitchens-two-tone-is-the-theme-today/ Products and ideas to remodel your mid century home in authentic vintage style Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:19:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sablemable http://retrorenovation.com/2008/04/04/61-mamie-pink-kitchens-two-tone-is-the-theme-today/comment-page-1/#comment-33505 sablemable Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:45:54 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/2008/04/04/61-mamie-pink-kitchens-two-tone-is-the-theme-today/#comment-33505 Next to pink bathrooms, LOL, pink kitchens get a big thumbs up from me! I looked at a house years back that had all pink appliances, and a built-in dining booth, the seats in aqua and the tabletop in laminate or formica pink! Lovely! Next to pink bathrooms, LOL, pink kitchens get a big thumbs up from me!
I looked at a house years back that had all pink appliances, and a built-in dining booth, the seats in aqua and the tabletop in laminate or formica pink! Lovely!

]]> By: Femme1 http://retrorenovation.com/2008/04/04/61-mamie-pink-kitchens-two-tone-is-the-theme-today/comment-page-1/#comment-5824 Femme1 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:02:15 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/2008/04/04/61-mamie-pink-kitchens-two-tone-is-the-theme-today/#comment-5824 In our day, the current mortgage lending crisis may result in people beginning to consider their houses as less of an investment and more of a place to live. Of course, in my parents' day, men (mostly) had jobs that would last the course of their careers. People didn't move as much. That ranch or colonial would be the family home for a long time. I doubt if we'll see a return to that time. Also, remember here that we're looking at illustrations for advertising purposes. Their slickness and design are akin to the way middle-class houses were portrayed in 1990s-2000s TV programs. I don't think most people had such expansive and beautiful kitchens. It's a consumer culture, and one way to get people to buy things is to make them think that other people who are just like them live with fold-down ranges and refrigerator walls. We appreciate these ads for their cool design ideas, but I don't think they necessarily reflect the reality of the bulk of homes in that era. You can see advertising changing its focus from the postwar "make Mom's life easier" type of of ads to more subtle psychological pressure in the sixties. More striving for "the good life." In our day, the current mortgage lending crisis may result in people beginning to consider their houses as less of an investment and more of a place to live. Of course, in my parents’ day, men (mostly) had jobs that would last the course of their careers. People didn’t move as much. That ranch or colonial would be the family home for a long time. I doubt if we’ll see a return to that time.

Also, remember here that we’re looking at illustrations for advertising purposes. Their slickness and design are akin to the way middle-class houses were portrayed in 1990s-2000s TV programs. I don’t think most people had such expansive and beautiful kitchens. It’s a consumer culture, and one way to get people to buy things is to make them think that other people who are just like them live with fold-down ranges and refrigerator walls. We appreciate these ads for their cool design ideas, but I don’t think they necessarily reflect the reality of the bulk of homes in that era.

You can see advertising changing its focus from the postwar “make Mom’s life easier” type of of ads to more subtle psychological pressure in the sixties. More striving for “the good life.”

]]> By: sixties sarah http://retrorenovation.com/2008/04/04/61-mamie-pink-kitchens-two-tone-is-the-theme-today/comment-page-1/#comment-5792 sixties sarah Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:00:43 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/2008/04/04/61-mamie-pink-kitchens-two-tone-is-the-theme-today/#comment-5792 Maggie, YOU are right! No one in the 60s could probably imagine "flipping" houses and making improvements or design decisions with anyone in mind besides their own families. In my neighborhood of much older homes (lots of Victorians, four-squares, bungalows, and Dutch Colonials), you basically HAVE to invest the $30K for an upscale kitchen if you don't want your house to be considered a fixer-upper. (Mine came with one, or I wouldn't have it.) When I do sell my home, hopefully this spring or summer, I am going to make my new place (a 60s ranch or tri-level, with any luck) an ode to the values of our parents' generation that are espoused on this site. If I want a pink steel kitchen, pinch-pleat curtains and a paneled rec room in the basement, no one is going to stop me! Maggie,

YOU are right! No one in the 60s could probably imagine “flipping” houses and making improvements or design decisions with anyone in mind besides their own families.

In my neighborhood of much older homes (lots of Victorians, four-squares, bungalows, and Dutch Colonials), you basically HAVE to invest the $30K for an upscale kitchen if you don’t want your house to be considered a fixer-upper. (Mine came with one, or I wouldn’t have it.) When I do sell my home, hopefully this spring or summer, I am going to make my new place (a 60s ranch or tri-level, with any luck) an ode to the values of our parents’ generation that are espoused on this site. If I want a pink steel kitchen, pinch-pleat curtains and a paneled rec room in the basement, no one is going to stop me!

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