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    Stripping paint from kitchen cabinets and returning to the original 1950s wood — “some therapy” but great results

    Posted by: • May 23, 2012
    retro kitchen with wood cabinets

    1950s wood kitchen, “Before”: … Cabinets painted black, “After”: … But then: 50 hours of stripping later, “After” returns to “Before”… back to the natural wood: Yes, haven’t we all done it — made a *big* decorating *mistake* that then takes hours to unwind. After he bought his 1950s house, Uncle Atom tried to dial [...]

    Design your own workbench – amazing selection and prices

    Posted by: • May 14, 2012
    workbench-components

    Skip the prefab workbenches from Sears or wherever: Design your own workbench — or crafting area — to fit your space and needs using the amazing variety of legs, shelves, stringers, drawers and countertops available from McMaster-Carr. Researching storage solutions for my office remodel, I bumped into an amazing resource for all kinds of home [...]

    Butcher block countertops — great prices, 75 sizes

    Posted by: • May 14, 2012
    butcher block countertops from mcmaster carr

    My obsession with finding the perfect storage solutions for my office studio remodel has been leading me to new resources. (Well, new to me.) My latest discovery: McMaster-Carr, who market all kinds of products to engineering types, and whose online catalog claims to feature 490,000 different products. Yes: 490,000 items. The first thing I want [...]

    Brini Maxwell shows us her vintage Sunbeam Automatic Control Panel

    Posted by: • May 9, 2012
    pam kueber's new old stock sunbeam automatic control panel

    Go Brini, well thank you very much, pritty lady, for the RR shout-out in your video about your vintage Sunbeam appliance center. Yes, formally known at the Sunbeam Automatic Control Panel. And yes, one of my favorite all-time wonderful oddities or “woddities.” I also have one of these units and Brini, you inspired me to [...]

    Powder coated steel shelving, kitchen cart and desk accessories, new from Ikea

    Posted by: • May 9, 2012
    ekby jarpen wall shelf from ikea

    After writing about the classic String System shelving designed in Sweden in 1949, I am mellowing on my attitude toward writing about Ikea. In the past, I was kind of anti-Ikea because (1) I had a bad experience with quality about 10 years ago [office table that looked terrible after excrutiating assembly process] and (2) [...]

    1978 St. Charles kitchen with groovy grooved wood doors – 9 photos

    Posted by: • April 25, 2012
    st-charles-kitchen-st-louis

    Thanks to Wendy, who spotted this unique (to us, so far) set of 1978 St. Charles kitchen cabinets that came up for sale on craigslist in St. Louis. The cabinet boxes are steel, as usual. But the door and drawer fronts seem to be crafted from wood strips, with a natural tone wood bar and [...]

    Viking discontinues St. Charles steel kitchen cabinet sales

    Posted by: • April 18, 2012
    St. Charles kitchen cabinets promoted for the launch of the new Viking brand, December 2007

     ”…low level of … orders … in this difficult economy makes it unfeasible to maintain such a small volume of production,” Viking says Viking Range Corporation confirms that, in the first quarter of this year, it discontinued the manufacturing and sales of its St. Charles steel kitchen cabinet brand. The “original” St. Charles brand — launched [...]

    Kitchen flooring with retro appeal: Azrock VL-130 Classic Blue Gray vinyl tile

    Posted by: • April 10, 2012
    Blue-Gray -- the color that Brian and Keri used

    We are not accustomed, I think, to seeing vinyl tile kitchen floors that *read* dark and streaky and complex. For example, there were a number of comments about the floor in the fantastic 1956 Tennessee time capsule kitchen (at right) – readers were kind of startled at the drama in that floor. I’ve been looking at [...]

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