Tag Archive 'steel kitchen cabinets'

Pink GE metal kitchen cabinets in Indiana - Reader Ron is starting to assemble collections for us all to buy!

Speedway Ron and I have become great online friends. He really knows his stuff when it comes to vintage steel cabinets.

A junior high in Lawrence, Kansas, wants color tips for their vintage Geneva kitchen cabinets

This is a fun one!

Teacher Kerri is the shepherd of three kitchens’ worth of vintage Geneva’s and of course - her students.

Dig this incredible extended kitchen - and read on for her question - and my response.
Hi, Pam!
Recently I “inherited” a Family and Consumer Science (HomeEc) classroom with Geneva kitchen cabinets. The school — which [...]

Where to get replacement parts like rollers and hinges for metal kitchen cabinets?

Hey Pam,
I am building a new house and I am doing a 50’s theme kitchen. I have a 60″ Beauty Queen sink base cabinet that needs to be restored. I am trying to find some replacement plastic rollers for the drawers and some new hinge springs as well as the rubber bump stops for the [...]

U. S. Steel-certified waste can - today’s eBay pick

Because of my great fascination with steel kitchen cabinets, I also love U. S. Steel, because of the ads they ran during the 40s and 50s promoting steel in all sorts of household uses. Once WWII ended, all that steel capacity had to go somewhere! This branded 5-gallon garbage can gives me an excuse to [...]

A new steel cabinet brand discovered this weekend!

I feel like a giddy archeologist every time a new brand of metal kitchen cabinets surfaces.
I did some cleanup and additions to the Forum this long holiday weekend. Updated count: 45 distinct brands of steel kitchen cabinets from the 1930s through the 1980s! Admiral brand is the latest, with a lone cabinet just [...]

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 [...]

Harvest gold metal kitchen cabinets on the Forum

Whoa. What a blast from the past. These vintage Sears — harvest gold — steel kitchen cabinets now are on the Forum.
Also: If you’ve tried to log on to the Forum recently, but were told you couldn’t — my fault. I fixed the issue, and you should now be able to log right in. Sorry [...]

Will Santa bring you a new, retro kitchen this year?

During World War II, Americans were encouraged to buy war bonds to fund the war effort. At the same time, amid the deprivation of war time restrictions, the country was dreaming of better times to come. And at that front of that list: A shiny new kitchen!
Happy holidays, everyone. I dropped out of the blogosphere [...]