What a great table and chair set. I particularly love the chairs, with their warm brown — almost coppertone – enamel.
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This is yellow 60s week for ebay items, it seems. This table is fabulous. The chairs are great, too, although they look like they need some TLC.
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It’s cheap and cheerful this sunshiney Monday. (I am in denial. It just keeps snowing here like it will never ever stop.):
Corn on the cob set – the epitome of my wonder bread childhood. SEE TODAY’S POLL!:
Cosco stepstool – like, EVERYONE had one of these:
Smiley face clock. Have a Happy Day, Y’All!:
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I thought very very seriously about hoarding this one for myself. It is awesome — perfect mint in box — and perfect for today’s kitchen, too!
Mom, you have one just like this, don’t you?
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Anne and Gary’s 1959 ranch home in Oregon is a wonderful work in progress and I love checking in with their blog as they settle into their new old classic and continue to make it their own. Currently, they are planning a kitchen update. When I saw their existing kitchen and its layout, I thought immediately that it had “Mondrian” potential. Mondrian = color blocks, like the famous artist. This style had a following from about 1955-1965. Heck yeah there is more…
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<–The birch kitchen in a recent post was so very typical of the 50s and 60s.
Today, you can still get birch doors – although they will be a little thicker. Order them with a ‘radius,’ or slightly rounded edge profile. Traditional (3/4) overlay would be typical, but you can go with full overlay as well, you certainly did see that especially moving into the 60s. The photo above is 1963.
The dark tone door featured on the left is from Omega, I also think Cabico makes a good product. As you can see from the photos above, there are a number of ways to approach the color/finish – “classic” as in the thumbnail, and for a more modern look, darker and/or colored stains.
In this latter approach, once you are mixing and matching 3 or more door colors you are creating a “Mondrian” style kitchen – certainly a trend you saw in the 1955-1965 period.
Isn’t the floor great, too?… The whole kitchen provides a lot of ideas… it’s one of the greatest, one of my husband’s very favorites.
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