You asked for it, you got it. Here’s your open thread for the day, where you are welcome to talk about anything you want. Let’s still try to keep it PG-13 and as polite as possible. This should be interesting!
You asked for it, you got it. Here’s your open thread for the day, where you are welcome to talk about anything you want. Let’s still try to keep it PG-13 and as polite as possible. This should be interesting!
Oh, the Jane Powell book is definitely worth getting. Tons of photos. Largely of the West Coast, however, which is different. But there’s a handful of pre-1920s kitchens with many photos and those are similar to what you describe.
I’ve never seen a hood in real life, only in the Powell book.
These kitchens sound very cool. The one we inspected today had a kind of weird wide shallow high fireplace. Turns out it was for a “range,” a wood burning stove that was halfway built into the wall. Too bad the range wasn’t still there.
Why would anyone rip out an original built-in and replace with crappy off the shelf non fitting particleboard cupboards? But apparently people do.
Mopar, I’ve seen similar hoods here in the ‘hood (couldn’t resist) – in a couple of houses in Bed Stuy. Both of them had the original cast iron wood/coal stoves under them, with the round galvanized pipe feeding into the chimney. My modern gas stove is sitting under the hood, but there is no exhaust system or anything, it’s purely decorative.
Cobblehiller, I have the same sink. When I first saw it, the guy who sold me the house told me I should tear it out and replace with a modern sink and countertop. NOT! He also told me to rip out the built in and replace with some cabinets and another countertop. No way.
My plans for the room include a tin ceiling, someday. I am familiar wih Jane Powell’s book, but I don’t have it, it’s on my very long Amazon wish list.
Both these kitchens sound wonderful. Sure, I’ll post photos if we get it. Maybe you can all come over for cookies. Montrose, that hood sounds rare. I take it the range is no longer under it? The kitchen we are inspecting is also “unfitted.” No counters. I hope a table works just as well.
Does everyone know “Bungalow Kitchens” by Jane Powell? Lots of photos of old kitchens.
If there’s a throwdown in any of the topic forums then you just say “yo jerk, meet me in the open forum after school” and it’s open season.
“what baby? haha”
Oh, you laugh now! : )
MM, my parents house over here had an original sink with legs, and one pantry closet and a walk-in dish closet. I think it must have had a door on it originally. I don’t know if my parents removed it or if it was gone already. The sink was great because it had the second really deep side which was great for hair washing and soaking/dyeing/bleaching things. The ceiling was low – garden level, but tin, too! [Love that!]. It’s all gone now – sadly.
That should read – Built in cupboard, not pantry. I would kill for a real, separate pantry. Someday, the house I live in will have one, if I have to build it in there.
no baby yet. could be another week yet. thanks for asking though. it is likely you will know its the time when you don’t see me for a little while. but until then, baby, what baby? haha
Mopar, I have an “original kitchen”. It’s like an English unfitted kitchen, no wall or undermount cabinets, original sink with front legs, built in pantry and original cast iron and brass range hood. I have 2 hutches for storage and an old oak kitchen table from my childhood home upstate smack in the center of the room. While that sounds really nice, no way I’m sending photos anytime soon, as the plaster is falling down, floor looks like the Titanic (now), I have a bare lightbulb hanging from the ceiling, and the range hood still needs to be stripped of 10 layers of paint on the inside. One leg of the sink is leaning against the wall, and my window can’t close all the way, and I’ve never had any counter space.
Other than that, I love it.