Following up on yesterday’s post about Nancy’s (popular!) kitchen project… and on our Monday blue Television Kitchen… here are kitchen cabinet paint colors straight out of 1953. Lots of good mix-and-match ideas.
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Vintage paint colors are a big issue for virtually everyone, so I’ll start out the new year with these 1950s and 1960s retro paint colors scanned directly from a vintage Sears Harmony House brochure that I bought recently. The scanner does a good job on most of the colors, with the dark pinks and reds only a little off. While these have some similarities to the Sherwin-Williams Suburban Modern palettes, there are many more choices. Look, for example, at Malibu Peach in the upper right — it’s perfect!
This chart is also great because it shows wood stains. No year printed on the piece, but I’ll estimate late 50s.
I’ve kept the actual color chart, below, sized as large as possible. For those of you on Internet Explorer, it probably looks funny in the main view – slides off the screen to the right. Just click once the image in a new window, twice to enlarge it further. I’ve also included the thumbnail to the left – sometimes this opens largest for best possible viewing, it seems. Note, this blog is best viewed in Firefox/Mozilla.
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