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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Retro Design Dilemma: Choosing colors for Michaela’s knotty pine kitchen

Reader Michaela needs no convincing when it comes to loving her knotty pine kitchen — yes, knotty is nice! However, she’s at a loss when..

Cullen’s vintage Dishmaster kitchen faucet — installed

In 2012, I anointed Cullen Meyer the “Crown Prince of Kitsch,” in amazement at his Brooklyn time capsule apartment, which he has decorated with all..

Decorating ideas to add light to a dark kitchen — Renee’s Retro Design Dilemma

Reader Renee loves her 1956 home because of its many mid-century design details such as the walls of windows and exposed brick. What Renee is..

Sarah’s “super economical” retro kitchen remodel featuring salvaged vintage wood cabinets

Sarah loved the vintage charm of the original kitchen in her 1950 mid century modest home, but after years of service it was looking tired..

Jessica decorates her rental kitchen, adding retro charm to the classic linen and white paint palette

It’s simple but true: Combining white with off-white — be it a soft beige, a yellowy linen, 1960s “bone” or a creamy vanilla — makes..

Jenny & Bob’s retro kitchen makeover — Formica Geo with metal edging & more

Readers Jenny & Bob have lived in their 60 year old home for 13 years. Since the day they moved in, the duo has been..

Vote for our 2013 “The Hard Way” Awards winner: Kitchen Remodel

Every year we choose a winner of our annual “The Hard Way Award” — given to a reader(s) for their project remodel that often, went..

Sarah’s round house designed by Gilbert Spindel — a tour of her Retro-Renovated interior

Be prepared to get your groove on, folks. When we took a look last year at Sarah’s creative front porch makeover on her vintage round..

Catherine & Jonathan revive their vintage Geneva cabinets in this retro fresh remodel

Reader Catherine and her husband Jonathan loved the original steel kitchen cabinets and tiled walls in their 1950 Cape Cod kitchen, but the room was..

Harmonizing midcentury modern paint colors — Ashley wants our help

Reader Ashley loves bright colors and retro style. Though her house was built in the 1930s and originally a country style, she wants her great..

Emily & Drew create a charming 1940s style kitchen — on a budget

Reader Emily and her husband Drew fell in love with their 110-year-old Victorian house immediately, even though it needed a lot of work. With a..

Mixing old & older: Kristen and Paul create an artsy, retro home on a shoestring budget

(h3>Only the third owners of this gently lived in 1899 house — which had some “modern” renovations in the 1930s and 1950s — this creative..

Doug’s retro modern kitchen — stunning effects using inexpensive mosaic porcelain tile from Home Depot

In a recent Retro Design Dilemma — Retro design ideas for Cathy’s yellow and maple St. Charles cabinets — the retro modern moodboard solution used..

Retro design ideas for Cathy’s yellow and maple St. Charles cabinets

Reader Cathy is working on remodeling her tiny 1949 kitchen using a set of vintage pale yellow and maple St. Charles steel kitchen cabinets that..

Melita uses steel laboratory cabinets to create her retro dream kitchen

One of the things that sold reader Melita on her 104-year-old Victorian farmhouse when she purchased it 25 years ago was the 1963 kitchen added..

$800 retro remodel for a 1980s kitchen

Reader Vegebrarian and her husband had to move into their 1980s split level home in a hurry, when their previous home was on a city..

Rebecca and Keith’s Mad Men kitchen remodel — and Mad Men ad designed for us!

Woah. This may be the bestest thing ever on the blog yet: Readers Rebecca and Keith not only did an amazing job remodeling their 1960s..

Retro decorating ideas for Angela’s 1956 kitchen

Angela’s 1956 kitchen is a charmer — and today she wants our help with paint, flooring and retro decorating ideas to make it the happiest..

Susan transforms her 1980s kitchen for $600

What do you do when life hands you perfectly functional 1980s kitchen cabinets — in a 1952 house? Susan turned to the thrifty remodeler’s #1..

Ann recreates the look of vintage steel kitchen cabinets — in wood

Do you love the sleek look of vintage steel kitchen cabinets — but don’t want to undertake the rocky journey to find a set to..

Mies van der Rohe apartment gets Retro Renovated with a “new” GE Wonder Kitchen

“…Finding replacement parts and coming up with ways to solve problems was way more exciting to me than just getting a new kitchen.” — ChrisWow,..

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