Here is a kitchen style that we have not seen featured on the blog before, as I recall. It’s a kitchen with cabinets made from two contrasting colors or designs of laminate. In this case: A starburst white laminate is the “field” color — and yo, a Brady Bunch orange is added to the Revco built-in refrigerator-freezer, wall cabinet doors and as a pop of trim. This kitchen is for sale — click on through for more yummy photos…
Take notice of the vintage woven window shade and the dishwasher — lovely!
I cropped this shot to show that the orange is laminate — not paint. You gotta love the Fred Flinstone floor, too!
Coppertone kitchen cabinet pulls sitting on starburst escutcheons, or backplate.
(Remember, you can replicate this style — although not exactly, and not in coppertone — with knobs and starburst backplates available from Rejuvenation.
52PostnBeam, our cabinet expert over on our Forum where this kitchen was originally posted, says that the Revco refrigerator-freezer shown is pretty darn rare.
The person who is selling the kitchen also sent me photos of the bathroom. It also is getting gutted, and she is happy to sell all the bathroom hardware as well. Hall Mack fish towel rings! A mermaid shower door (note: Be aware of the potential un-tempered glass issue — consult with a professional.) She even mentions: A toilet set embedded with pennies… And do I spy with my little eye maybe a nice mirror with built-in cosmetic box?
Bathroom with lilac sink, toilet and tub. Love the Hall Mack shell towel hardware.
Here is the craigslist link, all this stuff is on Long Island, NY, no prices “make an offer”: 1960s laminate kitchen cabinets.
This is all so gorgeous! If it were in my home, I’d never get rid of it! I also have to pass this link along to my friend who loves orange.
Oh goodness….it’s all so gorgeous! The gutting aspect is making me so sad. I hope, hope, hope that someone buys it all down to the very last bit and lets it all continue living in another home.
I’m in love! Especially with the starburst laminate – I’m a laminataholic.
And the lavender bathroom????!? To die for! That floor! Those stacked tiles with the shaded purple accents? That bathroom is a dream come true for me!
I have the same (starburst) Formica counter tops at my house. I found them under a bad marble paint job, in perfect condition.
Welcome, Yochi — Lucky you!!
I love the kitchen, but I LURVE the bathrooms! The tilework alone is worth the price of admission. Hope this suite of wet rooms gets a loving and happy home!
Oh my, I love this kitchen! I love the floor, the orange laminate countertops, the vintage dishwasher, the awesome Revco refrigerator/freezer arrangement, and the vintage pulls. Gosh, it’s amazing. I really do hope it gets sold to someone who will treasure it.
More common to see that starbust pattern on a bathroom vanity, no?
But yowsa what a combo! Bright orange! Happy stars! Cool copper pulls (remind me of some pots & pans my grandma used to have!)!
Love the shape and size of the Revco doors! And the “frosted” (chicken wire? glass block? Not sure of my terms here) sliding “glass” shelves above the phone (now laptop) cubby are pretty classic, too!
Thanks for sharing! If a reader snatches it up, I’d love to see how the pieces end up looking in a new space!
Hubba Hubba!
I’ve never seen the starburst laminate on anything but a horizontal surface….it’s so purty that way. Yes, the fridge is highly desirable….and ORANGE. Yum!
I like the kitchen, but the baths are really swell, too. It would be hard to rescue too many of those swell tiles, which is a shame. I hope some lucky person is able to rescue most of this-it’s gorgeous!
I have that same laminate but in yellow in my laundry room! Shame it’s being gutted. Fantastic!
Be sure to put the laminate on craigslist and our Forum! http://retrorenovation.com/forum — someone will want it!
:::SWOOOOON::: LOVE the kitchen!! And I so want that mermaid shower door! I don’t have a proper shower stall to put it on, but by god, I want it!
Oh, my goodness. My second home had the same lilac fixtures – we loved them! And that fridge & freezer – I’ve wanted exactly that for years. I had no idea that someone actually made them. I should call about it.
I would LOVE this! Unfortunately, my husband , not so much…
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He likes new, and I like old! What do you do? Our house is eclectic!
If that were my kitchen, I’d pledge my eternal love to it and never let it go.
That is such a fabulous kitchen! I hope someone can save it and give it a good home.
I love that starburst laminate. It looks a lot like Textolite. I wish someone would start making glittery laminate again – I would love to put it in my kitchen!
Love all of this!!
I’ve never been a fan of people who buy something like this and see it as a “Let’s get rid of it!” project. If you don’t like it, DON’T BUY THE HOUSE!
If this stuff was dirty, broken and moldy, then definitely. Now, while this style isn’t my own, I appreciate it anyway and would love to see it in person!
DITTO! Got me swingn’ from a flag pole. If you can’t appreciate it, then just move on. Better for some people just to start from scratch.
OMG AMAYZING!
OMGosh! I am desperately trying to reconfigure my current layout, but I think it is a job too big for us… DH would not be happy.
It’s awesome!
I wish they could list the house here first, so it could be appreciated as is!
Amazing. Absolutely amazing. I’ve never seen lilac fixtures. Awesome.
Love the house, especially those kitchen cabinets+the orange accents! I think the floor and the greenish glass throw me off a little, but at least the room has personality. I don’t care if a home isn’t decorated in my taste or isn’t completely period-correct, as long as it looks like the owner made their own choices (instead of following every current trend like a sheep.
Thanks for sharing the pics of such a unique home!
Wow, I LOVE this! What a shame to tear it all out. Although I do have to say that the underwater-themed bathroom is a little over the top for me, and I’m not a fan of the kitchen floor. It would just break my heart to see this gutted and replaced with stainless steel and granite, but I’m glad that the owner is making an attempt to salvage the interior instead of trashing it.
What a fabulous time capsule! It’s a shame that it has survived so many years and now is meeting its demise, but hopefully the fixtures will find a happy home to live on in all its fabulousness. I just finished putting the final touches a newly ceated pink bathroom because all my bathrooms had been updated in the 80′s. What I wouldn’t give to have inherited these lovelies.
Wow. I so want that kitchen! I have no idea what the kitchen in my house originally looked like…it was redone somewhere along the line (80s, I would guess) and is basically hideous — though we have tried to spiff it up by painting the cabinets and walls and putting in new laminate countertops. Someday we are going to gut and start over and make it look like 1958 again. I would die to find pieces like this when we’re ready for a kitchen makeover. I hope these find a wonderful new home!
The bathroom is great, too!
Geeeorgeous!
Wow! This picture belongs in Pam’s gallery of 60′s kitchens. Such a wealth of detail, not your typical mid century modest home. Well taken care of through the years! Surprised that the baths are in such great looking condition for their ages too. Never saw lavender colored fixtures before. Don’t condemn the sellers, what was once considered avantgarde and cutting edge in its day of introduction just doesn’t cut it anymore for most – especially the poor maligned laminates.
Seriously — it breaks my heart to see that all destroyed. If it were all in disrepair I’d understand, but it’s WONDERFUL. That starburst laminate? YUM.
Love the orange kitchen, the starburst laminate and my heart especially beats for the sea themed bath! It makes me sad to hear that it is to be ripped out and replaced, however, I DO give the owners “props” because they recognize the value of the fixtures and decor and are offering it for sale to those who also value MCM style. They could have simply ripped it out and thrown it away like so many other people do when they remodel older homes.
Yes, I agree. When we added on to our house last year, we got a lot of salvage items from a house built in 1948. The new owners were gutting it and putting in all new everything. So we benefitted by receiving their custom-built vanities, sinks, medicine cabinets, etc. — all for a song. Made our addition look like it’s always been here. I’m glad those owners went the craigslist route, instead of just tossing it all in a dump somewhere.
Wow. I would be so happy to glide around this kitchen! I wonder if I could price out having that double oven shipped to WI. This is a time to try uship, yes? All that starburst laminate makes me happy! I am guessing those super cool toilets are wall hung. Oh, how I love it all!!
Wow, very nice. I have that very same kitchen flooring in my entryway. Anyone know anything about it??
This is utterly fabulous! It doesn’t match the style of my house, but if I had money I’d drive the truck cross-country myself to get this here. Mad love! Heartbreaking to hear the kitchen and baths are being gutted. I’d love to see the rest of the house. Sure wish someone who loves it as is could buy it, and the people who want new could buy a different house. I wonder if they know anything about the people who built it. They must have been some stylish, imaginative folks!
So as I looked at the pictures, the first thing that came to mind was, “Oh, no. NO OPEN TOILET SEATS!”
Beautiful kitchen. I never thought I would love orange like that.
OMG! the starburst print is the exact same thats in my bathroom.. my bathroom has all original pink fixtures in it too. like the sink tub and toilet… and my kitchen had the same print on the wall lining my counters but it was soo old it had to be replaced, so i recreated it totally but with pink and silver… I wish they still made laminate like this. My bathroom needs replaced but im holding on to it for as long as i can…. its too pretty and retro fun to just let it go… whoever buys this house is a very lucky person!! kudos!!
Wow!
Is it wrong to fall in love with a kitchen?
A kitchen will never let you down…
The kitchen is just right. Orange isn’t my favorite, but THIS would be a keeper if I bought the house. Yes, just right!
And BOTH bathrooms: DREAMY ! Oh, my, I simply LOVE them!
I don’t know anything about tempered glass, but I wonder if you could have a fab shower door like this one, taken out of its frame and tempered by whoever tempers things and save the door? Or have it replicated and then tempered?
My mom has the same starburst laminate on her bathroom walls – reminds me of home!
This kitchen is fabulous! I love the starburst laminate with those copper pulls – makes me smile everytime I see them. Looked at them several times yesterday. Thanks for pulling more kitchen and bath photos, Pam!
Oh my gooness. I want it all…BIG TIME.
My heart just snapped in two when I read that this is all being gutted. So sad!
I LOVE both the bright & cheery orange & white starburst kitchen & the turqouise bathroom fixtures! My parents intentionally put all turquoise fixtures in one of their main bathroom back in a brand-new custom home in 1980! Turquoise “sunken” tub with turqouise carpeting surrounding & covering the steps up to the tub and all around it. Turqouise double sinks & a Turqouise toilet !!! The carpeted bathroom was wall-to-wall turquoise! The wallpaper even had a shiny pattern of turqouise floral designs in it! Remember the crocheted plant hangers that were all the rage ! One of those was hanging over the turquoise tub! Their sunken den & gameroom area had all burnt orange carpet in it! Her pull-out stove in the kitchen, from the early-mid 60′s looked exactly like the one on BEWITCHED ~ same brand & model ! Ck. Samantha’s pull-out stove with the glass ovens above it sometime!
I’m not an orange fan, but….o.m.g. I love that kitchen! It’s fabulous!
Why oh why would you destroy this????? Build a new home if you do not cherish this style!!!
my heart hurts that all these amazing original fixtures are being ripped out
I’d get pretty tired of the orange, but overall the kitchen is FABOO! I also love the lilac bathroom. I’ve never seen that color of fixtures before. So pretty and girly. Living alone, I could totally rock the lilac bathroom, but I think all you with a DH would get some resistance.
Pam, I believe you have violated your “No Open Toilets” rule in the last post about the 1960s starburst-white and orange laminate kitchen….:-)
Yes…. but at least the toilets are way back in the photo and you can not see down the gaping hole…
Hi-
I am purchasing a home in Texas- closing is at the end of June. The kitchen has stainless steel Revco Gourmet fridge and freezer. The freezer does not work and will be very costly to fix (I am trying to find someone local to take a look at it and get the price down) If I decide not to fix it – does anyone know where I should try to sell these? I am trying to figure out what they are worth as well. They are very cool- and I hope I can get it fixed but just in case…
Rose — see my FAQ, we answer this question. good luck.
Holy heck, I LOVE sunny (not rusty late ’70s) orange. I love this kitchen!
I’d love starbust hardware. It would look so cute in my kitchen, and my husband favours copper.
And I’ve seen a few lilac bathrooms in my hometown, (in houses that were usually for sale as gut jobs, some not even habitable…) but that one is really, really nice. I like lilac. I’m not a big fan of undersea themed bathrooms, but now my head is turning with ideas about lilac fixtures in rooms with wallpaper in soft lavender and butter – florals. Maybe violets? Ooh.
Too bad my hometown is 9000 miles away at the moment – and I’ve never seen lilac out here.
If anyone is interested, let me know. It is all for sale and evereything is in great condition, from the chandeliers to the cabinets and appliances. It is on craigslist.
We were just wondering how much the frigerator and the freezer are that u have built into the cupboards. We are interested in both of them. Please email me back on the information.
Kylee, please see the LINK in this story pointing to the listing for this kitchen on our Forum. That’s where you can communicate with the seller. Note, I think this is quite an old one.
geez, i would have seriously bought this. I need a revco fridge and freezer if anyone has one. ifellonmyhead@yahoo.com