40s kitchen

Want a checklist of key elements to create or recreate a 1940s style kitchen? Reader Carolyn recently wrote to us asking for ideas to help repair and decorate her 1947 kitchen. Long story short: I think that Carolyn has the need for a significant remodel on her hands. If she goes this route, to help I put together…

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20 photos of Lauryn and Dennis' 1939 kitchen makeover -- details about materials and methods they used to create the modest vintage kitchen of their dreams.

The kitchen in this otherwise beautifully intact 1926 home was updated in the 1950's, but lacked the visual charm of the rest of the house. A mid-1920s green and white Wedgewood stove provides the inspiration and colors for this fully modern upgrade with a late '20s to early '30's look. -- from the board "1920s Kitchen remodel with Wedgewood stove"

This was an image from a kitchen design article in Ladies Home Journal. The green and pink are complementary, and the cabbage roses are over the top, but I really like it. The dinnerware is Homer Laughlin's shell pink "Jubilee".

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Take a 1950s home tour of a 'junior five' near San Francisco - a small house with an entry stairway that starts at garage level and leads up to five rooms.

pink kitchen

If you have a 1940s house, it most likely falls into one of two categories: Pre-War or Post-War. The 1940s pre-War kitchen borrowed from the ’30s with its cheerful prints and focus on white, sanitary spaces. The post-War kitchen benefited from the huge influx of returning soldiers who got married and set up housekeeping . […]

Once derelict, a 1906 house in Portland is faithfully restored, then decorated with rich colors and a mix of vintage and revival furniture, textiles, and pottery.