Mid Mod Pam on Nov 14 2008 | Filed under: paint colors, steel kitchen cabinets
From Metal kitchen cabinets
I recently found this image of 10 original paint colors for St. Charles steel kitchen cabinets. I believe that these are circa 1957.
Mid Mod Pam on Aug 06 2008 | Filed under: steel kitchen cabinets
A HUGE set of St. Charles’ in Bloomfield, Mich. — and no one’s snapped them up yet. Folks, it does not get any better than this! Please please please, I hope a Retro Renovation reader gets them. They are on the Forum, do not delay!
Mid Mod Pam on Apr 04 2008 | Filed under: pink kitchens
Our penultimate day of pink kitchens. I love that word, penultimate!
41. TGIF, it’s party time and these 1961 Hotpoint kitchen-goers are ready!
42. This 1955 Geneva kitchen is more sedate but setting the pace nonetheless.
43. Pink and yellow, what a spring-y combination. And, this seems like quite the 1957 groove pad! Note the [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Mar 31 2008 | Filed under: pink kitchens
This week it’s pink postwar kitchens of every style - from the 40s through to the 60s. Be sure to check in every day, today through Saturday for a festival of Mamie pink!
To start - let’s head right to 1957, the absolute pinnacle year for pink pink pink!
#1: 1957 GE pink kitchen and look at [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Mar 22 2008 | Filed under: steel kitchen cabinets
click to enlarge photos especially the first one!
How about this fabulous 1966 St. Charles metal and wood kitchen?
Cool how it combines wood with metal. And French Provincial wood, no less.
This was part of the transition to kitchens that looked like furniture - like the rest of the house, which was now encroaching as ‘open concept’ [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Feb 01 2008 | Filed under: steel kitchen cabinets
These are fabulous. And there are 40+ to sell — including a ton of bases and walls — pantries with locks and lined shelves — some refrigerators — all St. Charles’. The groovy wall cabinets with the lime trim are all steel, the seller in Mt. Kisco, NY, assures. And though I don’t want [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Jan 08 2008 | Filed under: steel kitchen cabinets
Scathing Jane in Atlanta is looking for some more St. Charles metal cabinets to build out her set. She’ll send her sons to get them as far as Chicago or anywhere along the east cost, she has a big kitchen to fill. Please take a look at her post on the Postwar Steel Forum, and [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Dec 21 2007 | Filed under: kitchen, steel kitchen cabinets
Big news in retroland: The Viking Range company has purchased the St. Charles name and plans to introduce a whole new line of steel kitchen cabinets as early as February.
There will be 23 powder-coated colors, which appear to be quite contemporary. Look at their hardware — and at the other material on their website — [...]
