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Kitchen Rehab

After selling my boyfriend’s Victorian 4-story home in the Tower Grove area of St. Louis, we purchased a 1950’s ranch in Crestwood. I was 8 months pregnant and living in a hotel while looking for our dream ranch. We found our house the day it came on the market and offered full price and in “as-is” condition including all the contents. In total desperation to have the house complete before my due date, we had an estate sale a week later to remove everything from the previous hoarder-owner. Once everything was sold, donated and cleaned-out, rehab began. The kitchen was one of my favorite projects.

We left the original yellow color on the inside. I love how it turned out.

Close up of the original counter we left in. Great Formica Boomerang pattern

Yup, that’s a trash can on the left. My boyfriend insists on keeping it even though it takes up a ridiculous amount of space and is directly in front of the pantry. Pretty neat-o though, I must say.

Tags: boomerang, formica, genva, Kitchen, moderne, momoderne, retro

6 Comments to Kitchen Rehab

1. 

   Looks like they left some cool stuff behind!~
jenn ski on September 24th, 2008
2. 

   you did a wonderful rehab! you’re so talented
mod*mom on September 25th, 2008
3. 

   Hi Anna,

   Your home is wonderful, very well done. I saw a picture of your kitchen on retro renovation and noticed that you have a vintage tappan wall oven, which we have in one of our homes that matches. Anyhow my wife and I are restoring a small 50s bungalow in Oregon and also have a blog, so check it out. Illinois has some great homes, my brother lives in Chicago and we have been talking about moving there in a few years. Cheers, and thanks for blogging!

   http://bungalowranch.blogspot.com/
Loren Petersen on September 26th, 2008
4. 

   Had to stop in and compliment you on your lovely home! One of the things I was most impressed with was that you left original is the steel casement windows. They are just so much a part of the original fabric of 1950’s homes, and I hate seeing them ripped out and replaced by those thick, ugly vinyl beasts. The thin frames and wide open expanses of glass just make everything so much brighter and brings the outdoors, indoors. People can say what they like about the energy inefficiency, you can pay for the higher fuel bills for a LONG time before you can equate the cost of new windows, not to mention that for a reat retro look, you just can’t beat the original style windows. GOOD FOR YOU!
Robyn on September 26th, 2008
5. 

   Hello. I would appreciate any tips on renovating bedroom windows to make them safer. The original Pella (1959) windows have beautiful three piece mahogany frames, but the opening is too small for even a child to exit. We have placed smoke detectors in each of the bedrooms as an interim measure, but eventually would like to replace the glass with a more energy efficient and safer alternative. The large picture windows did fog up and these were replaced without ruining the view or trim. It was relatively expensive, however, and there was no change to the opening (same width, taller) because there is less need to exit/enter from the view windows because they are second story windows and there are close by, same level door exits to ground level.

   Thanks for your help, everyone.
MA Thomson on January 25th, 2009
6. 

   It has long been looking for this information, Thank you for your work.
Jimmy Prazov on January 26th, 2009

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