When I originally discussed using knotty pine in kitchens, there were comments expressing concern about the wood’s appropriateness in the relatively humid kitchen environment. When I was at the Southern Spring Home & Garden Show last week, I ran into this company, Union Church Millworks of Covington, Virginia. They had some really gorgeous woods on [...]

A recent surge of animosity on some other blogs aimed at knotty pine kitchens has been upsetting my karmic balance. However, the retro decorating gods have made it all better (for now) by delivering flickr friend Eartha Kitsch aka Kelly, who just last week finished freshening up the knotty pine kitchen in her 1956 new-old [...]

Tera spotted this knotty pine kitchen for sale in Austin. 45 linear feet of cabinetry, $500, on craigslist — and it looks really nice, with all that wrought iron strapping, too. In fact, I’d say this is very very old cabinetry, like from the early 1900s, but looking at the lines of the kitchen roofline, [...]

I LOVE KNOTTY PINE KITCHENS. They were very popular in the postwar era — they fit with our interest in both western ranch and early American interiors… they were were affordable… and the material was available.

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Yes – if you love Betty’s knotty pine, 50s kitchen – you can recreate one for your own home. And if you’re not into scouting for vintage items – don’t worry, you can do it with all-new products and materials available today.

The keys to this kitchen are the knotty pine cabinets, of [...]