Readers and Their Kitchens Archives

Category: Readers and Their Kitchens

So many great stories about readers and what they have done with their kitchens! Definitely shows there's more than one way "to retro"!

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Vote for our “The Hard Way Award – Kitchen Remodel” winner — 2016

{Voting now closed.} Voting for our 2016 “The Hard Way Award – Bathrooms” is under way (vote here), and now, it’s time to take a look at our..

Wren & Willow’s little bit of perfection 1940s house remodel: Let’s start with the kitchen

This is exactly the kind of story I was hoping to ultimately see lots of, when I started this blog nine years ago: Contractors …..

Drew and Amy’s atomic inspired kitchen remodel in a 1960 parsonage

“My mother’s advice was to find one or two things you LOVE and have to have, and then work everything else around that.” — Drew..

Ondrea and James’ English Rose kitchen: Two sets refurbished into one joyful remodel!

English Rose metal kitchen cabinets: One of three brands we’ve identified as made and sold in England — and, still made today! But being a U.S.-based blog,..

Vintage GE kitchen cabinets installed with a modern twist — I love it!

Do you love vintage steel kitchen cabinets, but want to use them in a more contemporary way? Well, consider this brilliant idea from my brother and..

The Smith house on Pinocchio Street in Dallas — drop-dead gorgeous, no lie! — 36 fun photos

Sneak peek: Goes on sale Thursday Which photo to to lead with? The front with the pink Cadillac? Or the back, with Bob’s Big Boy..

One ingenious couple + two sets of vintage St. Charles kitchen cabinets = a gorgeous midcentury modern kitchen remodel

One of the most enjoyable parts of our trip to KBIS 2016 in January was meeting some of our readers there — like Roger. When we met, he mentioned..

Pat and Bill’s St. Charles kitchen remodel

When reader Pat and her husband Bill initially moved into their 1951 ranch home, they weren’t fans of the original St. Charles steel kitchen cabinets, which were in..

A look inside an early 1940s Las Vegas cottage — one of the first residential neighborhoods in the city

Nevada Preservation Foundation‘s 2016 Vintage Vegas Home & History Tour was held on Mother’s Day, and as you might expect, a number of mothers chose..

A look inside The Rexford — a quintessential midcentury modern Las Vegas apartment complex

Okay, I’ll just spit it out: This was MY #1 FAVORITE spot on Nevada Preservation Foundation‘s 2016 Vintage Las Vegas Home & History Tour. The..

A fun Desert Modern midcentury modest house in Las Vegas

Day #2 of my coverage of the Nevada Preservation Foundation’s 2016 Vintage Vegas Home & History tour and oh happy day, let’s take a look..

Inside “Uncle Jack” LeVine’s delightful vintage Las Vegas home

I had the best time at the Nevada Preservation Foundation’s Home & History tour on May 8. My speech went really well — and I..

Retro Renovation featured on “Chronicle”

If you weren’t able to come to my presentation in Las Vegas yesterday, well, here’s a short peek into my life (including Astro!) that ran..

Decorating ideas for a brown, brown and more brown kitchen

Reader Paige needs our help — she and her husband Dustin recently bought a 1960 ranch house, and they are struggling to decide what paint..

Eames in a Box: A 1959 Spartan Carousel trailer with a fantastic circular kitchen

Prepare your eyeballs for this gem -- a rare 1959 'Spartan Carousel' trailer that, as its name suggests, includes a fabulous circular kitchen.

58 years in the same 1958 kitchen: Judy’s mom Doreen’s kitchen, Calgary

I love old houses because they come ready-filled with a history of love. Today: Judy’s lovely story about the 1958 kitchen that her mother Doreen still uses..

Sneak peek: Kristen’s kitchen renovation using Wilsonart ‘Daisy’ laminate in ‘Envy’

2015 was a great year for new laminate patterns — both retro inspired and retro revivals — and we’ve been so excited to see these colorful, cheery prints..

Kara Vallow’s Bicentennial Chic kitchen remodel — winner of The Hard Way Award – Kitchens for 2015

Okay, so this has got me to chuckling to no end. Howdy hudee, the votes are in (thank you, readers) and the winner of our..

The Hard Way — Kitchen nominees

2015 was a good year for kitchens! Kate and I looked back and found eight great retro renovators who chose to take the path less traveled and..

Mary and John remodel their 1980s kitchen with a fresh white retro modern vibe

Mary and John built their house in 1983 and after 32 years of cooking in the same shades-of-brown kitchen — and inspired by a fabulous vintage Daystrom dinette..

Mary’s retro kitchen renovation starts with simple white slab door cabinets — then she amps things up with color

Mary put a lot of love into the complete renovation of her kitchen 10 years ago — those vintage-looking cabinets are all built from scratch —..