Update: Entries (comments) on this story are now closed. Congratulations to winners Renee (vase) and Melissa (apron) — I done spun the random number generator, and their number came up. Prizes awarded! Thanks, everyone, for playing — how much fun to read about everyone’s kitchens! Can you believe it, this Savoy vase, designed by Alvar Aalto, has been in continuous production since 1936 — that’s 75 years. Courtesy of sponsor FinnStyle.com, one reader will win this lovely classic vase this week.
And to double the fun, FinnStyle also is offering a second prize for a second reader: a Marimekko apron of your choice. This Kesatori design is my perky favorite — but I count 8 styles of Marimekko aprons, with a total of 14 possible colors. Continue on for instructions on how to enter to win our one of our two giveaways this week –>
Comment to win an Aalto vase or Marimekko apron
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The rules:
- There will be two winners: One winner of a small Aalto Savoy vase (value: $50), the other, of a Marimekko apron of your choice (value: $43).
- To enter the contest, make a Comment answering the question, “What are the colors in your kitchen?” You’d want an apron to coordinate, of course!
- I’ll choose the winner by Random Number Generator Tues. morning-ish, Nov. 22.
- You must reply to my email within 7 days, or else I move on to the next in line. I’m not chasing you. Make sure your email is correct.
- U.S. only.
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My kitchen colors are pear green and gray. I would love to win!
My kitchen has several colors. Mainly, our kitchen wares are white, but our kitchen is decorated with my cute Vintage Pyrex collections. I fail in love with old pyrex glassware…<3 I will collect more and make my kitchen the most fun place in my house.
Great apron…….thanks…bring the crazy aprons back….love the vase as the design will never go out of style.
My kitchen is Black, White and Mint. There are also pops of Red!
My kitchen is Cilantro Cream (light green) with Antique Copper paint accents on the bulkhead. I still have the original 1954 Estate gas range in white and the original maple cabinets in a medium maple tone. Love your website!
Yellow, grey, and red with a little of black accents. Happy and cheerful and very 1940s!
Kitchen colors are turquoise and peachy-pink!
(The kitchen itself is made up of white marble laminate and browns, so I need colors that pop!)
The current colors in my kitchen are sea green, beige and dark brown cabinets. We need help!
Yellow with original red Formica countertops. Black plastic tiled backsplash.
My kitchen is Sherwin Williams Suburban Modern Chartreuse, Holiday Turquoise, with Apple Blossom accents and red tchochkes. Where do you suppose I learned about those colors?
My kitchen is red and white, and I LOVE everything from Finland!
My kitchen colors come from Martha Stewardt’s paint line– haystack walls and picket fence base cabinets and shelves. My floor is checkerboard Azrock tile Spearmint and Cirrus (a mix of mostly white, coral, and spearmint). Of course there are pops of pink!
Golden oak and white are my kitchen colors, and I’m ordering a beautiful Marimekko tablecloth today, from Finnstyle, for the holidays!!
Ack! My kitchen’s current colors are brown, brown, and more brown! It is a 1978s time capsule, and not in a good way! We are looking at ways to brighten it up. That apron and some Gerbera daisies in the vase would at least get us started!
My kitchen colors are gold, green and electric blue – knotty pine cupboards and curava counters in the jungle moon colorway. Sort of sophisticated summer camp!
My kitchen is white with mid-beige cabinetry, neutral flooring. Boring! The color would add so much, and you can’t go wrong with Marimekko! Aalto is always first class!
My kitchen is neutral but I brighten it up with red accessories. WOuld love to win either the apron or the vase!
My kitchen , a rental, is 80s oak cabs and butcher block laminate counters, which I have attempted to liven up with a beehive stainless steel blender, a retro style Oster convection/toaster oven, and an Alessi Starck juicer, which looks cool but isn’t very effective for a morning glass of oj.
Logs and chinking, gray linoleum floor with red/yellow insets, green Fire King objects, black wood cookstove.
I was born in Finland so you can just guess the colors in my kitchen: red toaster, blue stand mixer, blue/green/red striped rag rug on the floor surrounded with yellow walls. I need bright colors living on Oregon Coast. Cheers!
Light wood floor, off white appliances, brown granite countertops, bronze tile backsplash.
Turquoise, white, wood!
My kitchen is green and gray.
we installed new ikea upper cabinets in a patchwork of colors, including open shelves, a solid red door, and colored glass doors in blue, green, charcoal and white.
The one wall behind the cabinets we painted benjMoore “sidewalk”, a soft MCM grey. It gives a very Eames meets Breuer kinda look.
Our kitchen has powered blue counters and light butter yellow walls.
It is a galley kitchen.
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I painted the tired old white cabinets — cream coloured doors on birch yellow cabinets. White appliances and countertops on a natural cork floor.
Just found the site today, and love it! Thanks!
The colors in my kitchen are currently TAN, but will have been in the process for 3 years (currently in dreaming stage) of changing to 1950′s primary colors! Maybe if I won an apron to match, I’d be forced to get the ball rolling
My kitchen has dark mint green painted surfaces, forest green tile countertops and backsplash, mahogany cabinets and wallpaper with shades of mint, dark green almost black, avocado and gold leaf. We think it was done about 1963 to a 1957 house though the wallpaper maybe original. The print on the wallpaper includes sketches of avocados overprinted with gold leaf highlights.
My old New York kitchen complete with bathtub,is done in white laminate cabinets with turquoise walls and oak flooring. LOVE this site!!!
Butter yellow St. Charles metal cabinets, sage green walls, Terra-cotta colored tile floors and Formica, stainless steel appliances with splashes of red-orange throughout.
My kitchen is all natural tones, tans and creams, with pops or dark burgundy reds. All of the cabinets are hand made from white birch wood and the counter tops are tiled with creams, and tans with a few burgundy tiles here an there to make it pop. I love my kitchen and am almost done with it. I think the the vase would look great on the new bar area, or the apron on the wall!!
My kitchen is off white walls, sage green metal kitchen cabinets (Geneva, exactly like yours but someone painted over the awesome original color, boo), and a red painted door leading to the outside. The floor is dark (charcoal?) vinyl tiles with white flecks. Sounds like a weird combo but it’s actually pretty cool. Just wish my cabinets were still turquoise!
My kitchen is Appleblossom Pink, Chelsea Gray, and has domino marmoleum floors, charcoal boomerang formica, and grey and black tiled backsplash….The Marimekko Fokus Apron would fit right in…..
I rent my place, so the colors in my kitchen are pretty bland. Light mocha walls,
dark cabinets, and black counters. I love adding color through accessories. I have green plants in my window, a red utensil holder, a gunmetal mixer and brightly colored frying pans. Most times there is a bowl filled with fresh fruit for good measure. I’m always hunting for new fun ways to brighten up the place.
My kitchen is sage green with wine red countertops.
Our kitchen is accented with Marimekko’s Unikko design (lime/yellow).
My Kitchen is currently the original 1958 kitchen from when the house was built. We are in the process of trying to figure out what we want to do with it… we have what I believe are birch? cabinets, a lovely GM oven, a vent hood that is the size of a small car and white counters… so it is just white, light brown and dark brown. Let me know if you’d like photos! Cheers
LOve the vase and the vase!
Deep purple, watermelon red, and turquoise
My kitchen is part vintage, part modern. It’s got tone-on-tone white and pearl gray, with black countertops and a rich dark mint floor. The accent color is banana-pepper yellow.
My kitchen has white cabinets, white appliances (including an old tappan stove which, if not original, has been here a long time) and grey formica counters and grey tile floors. The walls are painted teal. While it’s not totally retro, it isn’t totally updated either & I love retro touches like marimekko designs.
Our color scheme is brown and orange – we have a vintage glass tulip table and chairs that are brown and orange goes really well with it!
My kitchen is (currently) white with medium brown cabinets on the bottom, and high gloss white cabinets on the top and also our floor to ceiling cabinets are white as well. All courtesy of my home land, Sweden, and their killer store Ikea
White subway tile for our back splash, white appliances, white countertops, and stainless handles, pulls, and range hood. I did it this way because I LOVe to change colors of my accent pieces. I have a lot of blue, yellow, green, and turquoise in the spring and summer, but in the fall I switch it orange, and in the winter…greens and reds ( of course). I’d sure love to add some additional Finn Style to my kitchen, because I am also half Finnish! Kiitos!
Multicolored with a blue/green focus. Pops of other colors never hurt anyone!
My kitchen colors are mint green and butter yellow. Sounds gross, but actually cute! I’m jonesing for that apron! LOVE this site!
My kitchen? Well the lovely glam/mcm home I just moved into had a most unfortunate kitchen remodel in the 80′s so I’m living in teal & peach, baby! Ack! Good quality, great layout, but teal & peach. Oh my. Did I mention the whitewashed cabinetry? *sigh*
My kitchen is a mellow green, almost avocado, with warm maple cabinets and floors. It’s the perfect foil for splashes of turquoise, rust and orange.
My kitchen is small and sad and could use some more color. My little Standard Homes cottage was built in 1940 for a Standard Oil family (El Segundo – home of “The Second” Chevron (formerly Standard) oil refinery in Southern California) and I believe that the kitchen has been re-done more than once with various bargain-basement materials. Anyway, the colors are drab tan, perma-dirt brown and dingy off-white. My bright and beautiful persimmon Eames molded fiberglass side chairs help infuse some color into my galley, but it could really use the help of a cheerful apron or modern vase full of orange Gerbers!
My kitchen was just forcibly changed from navy blue (sad color!!) to a minty green with a sandy green and tan quartz countertop, and about to have a minty green and Caribbean blue mosaic tile put in! (merry Xmas to myself!) I love Miami Vice colors. I’m seriously thinking about installing pink neon around the ceiling. (chortle)
Love the apron- and I’m 1/2 Finnish! It’s a perfect fit
xo Adrienne
My kitchen is a very happy YELLOW!