My office studio remodel is not the only project I have up my sleeve. Shhhhh! Don’t tell anyone: I’m also working on a new little website all about, yes, the Knotty Pine. Alas, the whole wide world doesn’t quite understand — like Betty Crafter (above) and Eartha Kitsch and Jeff and Lynne and a whole bunch of us do — that knotty pine can be a gosh-darned wonderful thing.
Can you help me tell the knotty pine story — by sharing photos of your knotty pine kitchens, dens, basements, sunrooms, tiki bars — all your knotty pine galore (bathrooms, even!) — that I can use on the new website? It’s easy to upload your photos, below. I will be so grateful! Get out your camera — most all cameras today do a great job, cell phones, too! Use natural light, and get artsy fartsy with your angles (get up on a ladder… lay down on the floor… take wide shots… take detail and accessories shots… Have fun — let’s show ’em that knotty can be nice!
Update: Uploader now closed, but view all the photos:
Tips to view slide show: Click on first image… it will enlarge and you can also read my captions… move forward or back via arrows below the photo… you can start or stop at any image:
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Melanie says
gorgeous rooms everyone! I love knotty pine,unfortunately my house didn’t come with anything as nice at that, but I am enjoying all the photos.
linda says
Ooh! Thanks Pam for including our knotty pine living room! When my husband and I bought the 1953 house, so many people “suggested” that we either remove the pine panels in the living room or paint over them with white(!). No way! The wall was a bit dull, but nothing a few washes of Murphy’s and tung oil couldn’t fix. Now it looks wonderful and warm and we love it. We need more KP appreciation for sure.
Marylou says
I’m so glad to find your site. My 50’s ranch had knotty pine cabinets, but had to reconfigure my kitchen and thus get new cabinets. I got knotty maple which looks pretty close, especially since the adjoining breezeway/family room is paneled in knotty pine. As we do renovations I am keeping the wood trim with 3 lb. orange shellac (now called amber shellac) even tho the contractor wants me to switch to white painted trim.
My elderly mom lives in a 60’s split entrance ranch with aqua GE metal kitchen cabinets that are in excellent condition. Now, as she gets nearer to moving to a smaller place, lots of folks see her kitchen as a big problem in the process of selling her house. I can see marketing it for its great 60’s characteristics including no wood trim at all around windows and doors and a great modern chandelier in the dining room along with tiled bathrooms in great shape!
I’m glad to see there is developing interest in keeping these houses consistent with their original concept.
Chase says
Decorating Tennis Girl – what a beautiful fireplace nook! Knotty pine doesn’t usually fit my tastes, but this application just looks SOOOO right!
Robin says
Thanks, Chase. I love it and is original to our 1939 cape cod style home 🙂
Stacy says
Our knotty pine den is now the knotty pine playroom, and it is a wreck! But I love it-it’s the real deal. Four walls of real, solid pine, original doors and windows, and parquet floors. Everyone keeps asking when I’m going to paint it. Never! I wish I could get a good picture up, but I’ll have to see how much time I have to clean it first.
Eartha Kitsch says
Ooh! Exciting!
Kathy says
I have an old Better Homes and Garden magazine from the 50s all about Knotty Pine. Let me know if you want any of the informaiton!
pam kueber says
Heck yeah I do! Do they talk about why it is so popular????
Kathy says
I’ll look, I found it in my attic last year. We had a knotty pine kitchen in our 1900s house and it was so poorly done that I hated it. I had no idea it was so popular!
pam kueber says
Kathy, you mentioned in the response to Eartha Kitsch that your magazine was vintage BH&G. If so – no need to scan, I cannot use any of those images – I do not feature old editorial content because it is copyrighted. However, if there are any articles about WHY knotty pine was so popular, it would be great if you could read the story and paraphrase what is says for us… Many thanks, Pam
Eartha Kitsch says
Kathy, can you let us know what issue that is? Would love to look out for it! Thanks!
Kathy says
I have two (well there are a lot more upstairs they are just covered in 50 years of dirt and dust – you have to wonder why they put them in the attice but didn’t cover them….). Better Homes and Gardens Remodeling Ideas. It has a ton of suggestions on how to decorate and repair homes. Better Homes & Gardens Home Furnishings Ideas. Both from 1951. We are leaving for the weekend but I will work on scanning the pictures next week, I’ll make sure to include the cover pictures.
Eartha Kitsch says
Thanks! : )
John says
Hi Pam, great idea. I love knotty pine too. I have natural wood cabinets but they are birch from the 50’s, not knotty pine.
John
Jeanne says
I have to clean a few rooms first. haha. My upstairs bedroom and entire basement is knotty pine. One wall in my basement has a mural-size B&W photo of Big Sur! I bet nobody else has that!
pam kueber says
Jeanne — we NEED to see that mural room! Need!
Jeanne says
I will definitely do some cleaning, staging and photographing – hopefully this weekend. I also have an inset/build-in bar in the basement with a unique 50s wallpaper that I need to photograph.
Robin says
I love that stove! I have just purchased a Frigidaire Flair(the stove on the old Bewitched show) Can’t wait to get it home! I love knotty pine kitchens!