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St. Charles mid century modern kitchen cabinet colors

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.

Will someone please hurry and snap these up!

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!

61 Mamie Pink Kitchens: “Two-tone” is the theme today

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 [...]

61 Mamie Pink Kitchens: Let’s start with 10 from the big name brands - St. Charles, GE, American-Standard, Crane, Formica and more

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 [...]

Vintage 1966 kitchen — St. Charles mixes wood and metal, and harvest gold and avocado arrive!

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’ [...]

Oh so groovy St. Charles kitchen cabinets - for sale on the Forum

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 [...]

St. Charles kitchen cabinets for Scathing Jane anywhere along the east coast?

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 bigĀ  kitchen to fill. Please take a look at her post on the Postwar Steel Forum, and [...]

Big news — St. Charles cabinets are being resurrected — with big bucks marketing, too

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 — [...]