HouseSmarts "Retro Kitchens" Episode 148
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- Kitchens often top the list of major updates to a home. But what about taking your kitchen back in time? Here’s a look inside two homes with extraordinary retro-styled kitchens inspired by vintage appliances.
I was lucky enough to buy a house with an untouched 1950’s kitchen. I refuse to update it
But ... the asbestos in the linoleum?
JudgeJulieLit As far as I know there is none. Or it’s covered up. The Linoleum that’s in my kitchen is from the 70’s or 80’s
JudgeJulieLit asbestos in linoleum is ok to have unless you are planning to get rid of it. It’s only a problem once the asbestos is released into the air.
I’m not sure if there are asbestos tile or not. Looks like they updated the linoleum sometime in the early 70s. But the cabinets and counters are original.
does it have an old 50's garbage disposal?
I live in a School House built in 1864, All the tin punch is still good. The kitchen needed a touch of retro, so i made up my mind to do so, found a GM 1958 stove, and a farm sink and i love the look. Thank You for your video.
I love the old style colored appliances & furniture.
I like real vintage appliances better, because unlike these, they have no impossible-to-fix electronics. For me, simplicity is more important than efficiency.
I do to for the same reason and also because they have superior quality built to last Made In The USA unlike new ones today! These probably will break in 5-10 years due to poor quality and planned obsolescence! Real Vintage used to last 50 years!
@@kevintheenthusiast6095 yes but everyone says that they are fire hazard, and can electirfy you. Is it true, and if yes how can it be fixed??
I had to replace my 35 year old washer. Dang it cost me a LOT to buy the only mechanical washer still on the market. Looks, operates and feels (heavy!) like granny's.
Love the Fiesta in their kitchen!!! An essential in every kitchens.
In these days of kitchens that look like high-tech surgeries and worse yet, open kitchens (big fire hazard--ask any fireman) and unrestrained gut renos, this video is PURE JOY! Thanks so much
I agree with you on open kitchens. I much prefer the separate kitchen of the past.
I used to live in an old rented house that had red tiling in the bathroom .Landlord said it was vintage 1950s styling. It was the best looking house bathroom I ever had 👍
Very good idea that’s my dream kitchen I really like it
Love love love ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I looooooooooove your vintage kitchen!!!
the cutting board insert....genius. love it all.
My grandmother had a Chambers stove. Would love to have one!
OMG the first one is just like a 50s paradise!! I'm inlove! 😍🥰
We had the same aluminum pendaliers in the church from my childhood that was built in 1950.
In food (such as traditional baking powder), cooking utensil and foil surfaces that touch food, and most antiperspirants, aluminum is toxic, a cause of Alzheimers and other neuropathies. But in nonedible items such as pendaliers is safe, as metals do not "off gas."
Loved it! Those appliances! Loved them!!😁👍
Beautiful! Love mint green
Nice. I would love to see the rest of both houses.
Beautiful beautiful thanks for sharing this video
I like the mint green
Brilliant!!! I just love this!! OMG!! So perfect. Thank you for sharing this dreamy kitchen!! XOXOX
I love this
I love it! the colors!
This video made me drool....... Loved it!!
That stove in the second kitchen is exactly like the one we had when I was a kid. I remember that you had to light the oven with a match each time you wanted to use it, it had no pilot light. I think the stovetop had a built-in deep fryer (where the lid is on the right) but I'm not sure.
Both of these kitchens are way more tricked-out than a typical 1950s kitchen but the people seem to enjoy them.
I love it! 🤗🌹🥰
I love ❤️ how the first couple decorated their kitchen
Omg!! I Love it!!! My dream!!
Beautiful
Love it all
Very good
Very impressive
Loved it!
Wow im sooo inspired by both kitchens luv his collections in frst one an secnd one love that stove an i have those blue Saratoga water bottles (fresh direct) never thought to use as a designing element...hell frm brooklyn nyc
New kitchens seem to be on the top of the list for new home buyers, but they seldom improve on the old ones. Love both of these. The only thing I'm not too keen about is all that pegboard. I can see the usefulness of some--between the counter tops and the cupboards, for example, but that kitchen has all the walls of pegboard. Why?
Julia Child had a wall of pegboard in her personal kitchen. It’s definitely not my cup of tea.
I would give my left you know what for mint or seafoam green appliances.
Left nipple
They can be done. Place in Colorado even makes them. Do NOT go with SMEG. It's greatly overpriced cr*p. Bought a 140.00 flimsy toaster from them (pink) that never. Worked. ONCE.
the 20.00 one I got felt more stable!
I love this!
Somethings telling the old will be new once again
Love the floor
I have a kitchen with original metal cabinets. We've been trying to decide on what to do with them. I like them, but my husband hates the "retro" look. Now to figure out how to make something retro look more modern
Where did you get the floor tiles ?
its just vinyl flooring. you can buy it in any flooring store.
The 50s in America was the best time period, everything and everyone looked so cool and it's when men were men and women were women.
So, you haven't seen Green Book for the reality of things for black, gay men, then?
It was a movie about a black musician (doctorate) who hired an Italian to guard and drive him through the deep south.
Hey, if someone wants to set up a trust for their wives in the event of divorce. I know 60 women who'd quit their jobs to marry you. But not with 0 protection in case of divorce. Just saying.
Lucky! My husband wouldn’t let me do this. 🥺
Does anyone know the name of the tile used for the back splash in the first kitchen?
looks like pre-war fallout4
I LOVE all things vintage but this is a horrible hodge podge of crap!! Red counters and blue appliances and the tile on the floor..OMG...they need to go back and take a look at an ORIGINAL kitchen from that era! It would not have all those colors mixed!! What a tacky mess and they think it looks great!! As a serious collector of all things vintage particularly appliances, this is scary!!
Some 1950s (> 1940s?) home linoleum prints were hectic city-lights and traffic busy, tutti-color, Piet Mondrian rectilineat patterns that came to clash with later sensibilities.
Preach. All so true!
@@JudgeJulieLit I just remember ugly speckles, but that might have actually been 1960s.
What wood is used as a base material in retro style ??? And what counyer material ?? If u could help please
Whatever you have where you live. I'd think. Lots of oak here. Maple is nice, but not many stripes. It's also lightweight. It does damage easily, tho.
The laminate can be bought in sheets from Home Depot. Not real expensive. You DO need some tools to glue it onto your old stuff, tho.
They have up to 12 feet long. Or 4 x 8 I think it is.
I’d like to purchase the colorful kitchen flooring in the first vignette. Does anyone know who makes it, what it’s made of or where it can be purchased? Thanks so much
It’s linoleum. It’s very common and relatively cheap compared to other flooring
Kinda reminds me of Pee wees kitchen
Thank the Lord for Gay Men, they are the BEST designers and decorators in the world!
cost an arm and leg though..
Yeah but at least they grow back after a while.
Not too bad if you do it yourself...I'd have gone with metal cabinets, which would be 50s period. They're handmade online.
There's nothing truly retro there. It's basically a modern kitchen with a retro theme. Should of kept it orginal boys.
Most of which is full of asbestos or free hazards from extremely old appliances that were never touched.
If it's not completely intact, it has to be tested and then it has to go. It doesn't look like IG. believe me. I HAVE quite a bit here! Lol. It's kind of a catfish. What VGT studios shows you on real estate sites is very much photoshopped. It DOES NOT look that great (by a long shot) in person!
Then. You have the thrills and joys of completely untouched electrics and plumbing. Feel free to come by. I have to do math when using an induction cooking plate and a small heater. What fuse in on what line, again...? (Has to go look it up. No joke)
Plumbing in untouched houses is. A. Disaster. If you're lucky, it's just a minor leak under the sink leak. If not, it's mold (black mold, nasty and dangerous) and it drips into the walls. Great.
As people get older, they refuse to maintain stuff. Then, it turns into a nightmare. Trust me. I'm manager of a few newer places and live in a very old one.
It's neither fun, nor cheap, to live in an old house.
Please don't get me started on the lovely copper wiring shortage in 1965-1972...I've seen 465k houses with "aluminum wiring" marked on the fuse box. To me. That was cause for GREAT alarm. You can't put them together! If someone put some aluminum in (dunno WHY, copper WORKS! And is safe in general) you get to go through the ENTIRE HOUSE, at least a few times (!) To make damn sure you didn't miss a junction box or something covered up at some point by an unqualified homeowner...
I can tell you all about the nightmare of various holes. Rodents, things like silverfish and moths. Walls separating from the floor by all the radiators...leaks from the radiators. Um. Boilers that people are completely unqualified to be in the same room with, much less touch with tools...(boilers are for radiators. Steam heat is NOT for the inexperienced guy who tool a class on furnaces, not the same thing, at city colleges)
Let's see...um. TWO shorts that could have been fires. One in the wall, another in said furnace. Water leaking in the walls (roof repair isn't cheap), playing with sinks and toilets. Regularly. Lol.
It's not Instagram. Just trust me on this. Lol. Yes, if you get a good one, you'll have solid components. BUT, things get old or weren't done right. That is EXTREMELY common! Anything from badly painted/repaired walls (about $2,500-3000 to fix a 925 sf apt at the friend rate, btw) to all the above...and all those cracks WILL come back.
Oh, do you want to discuss crooked, leaking single-pane windows in 30f or a lot less? :) Windows are NOT cheap.
It's a very long list. Just trust me. You also have lead and probable asbestos (up to the 80s in flooring, paneling, popcorn ceilings and wallboard)
Compare to an old car. If you're used to going outside and just starting your Honda, please note, those days are gone.
Lol
Old vehicles are SIMPLER, yes, but you have 0 safety features. If you crash, you can be badly hurt by the pre-seat belt components in the glass and dashboard/doors slicing you to ribbons.
If it's minor, you'll probably be able to drive away, but you'll need to learn about many, many things: gapping spark plugs. There's often no A/C or it won't work. At all. Same with heat. Things rust. Do you know how to use a jump starter/overnight charger? Because you'll soon learn :) Generators, not alternators (yuck).
The disaster known as Torque-flite, push button transmission. Damned things didn't work well BACK THEN. lol.
Finding the right tires. Forget nice disc brakes that ACTUALLY work in a reasonable time frame. Snow and rain will NOT be your best buddies. Lol. They tend to slide a lot, because there's no independent rear suspension systems, they're heavy as hell, and they're back wheel drive. All are finicky on if/when they'll choose to start.
Once the hoses start to rot, that's a whole other pile of fun. Unexplained leaks. Including water...
Just saying, if you were buying a retro car, I'd say, go find a Dodge Challenger like, a late-model beetle or the other few thar are retro look.
Because old and untouched can be a LOT of problems.
Normally, when you REALLY need it to just GO. Rent one if you were dead set, but don't buy it.
Same with a house. Just trust the old person here! Lol. Look up Ask the Builder, he'll tell you all about it.
If you find an old lady (women live longer) with an untouched house, go lowball offer and DO NOT forgo the inspection! Because it WILL probably need a LOT of work.
Don't let old cabinets get your mind shut off to reality. You can have new, metal ones made, too.
For me, old flooring is a no-go (asbestos). Mold, I'm out. And anything like crooked floors or roofs. Or mention of aluminum wiring. Nope. Too much to fix.
There were no islands in the 50s. They're annoying. It should have been a table.
But if course. It works for some people. I'd have used different tile (this isn't period) and metal cabinets.
But if course. It works for some people. I'd have used different tile (this isn't period) and metal cabinets.
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04:14 Get your cat off the fuckin' bench top
So, arsenic green is the only way to go. Wow, you sure have a limited taste. This is also so cluttered and confusing. I would have to be in constant intensive care at my psychotherapist if I lived in this.
Yuck!
It's it's got an island, it's not retro.
Animals in the kitchen are gross, especially on the island.
Ewww, cat on the table...