Kitchen Memories

When things get quiet around here (usually by midnight if no one in the family is in crisis at the moment), I enjoy checking out my favorite home decorating blogs and message boards. Tonight on the HGTV Decorating Message Boards there was a great discussion of everyone's memories of "Mom's kitchen". I had to share some of these photos - hope they'll bring back happy memories for you too.

Does this pink and turquoise 50's kitchen look familiar? The lady even looks a little like Mom! That could be me "taking charge" with the cookbook, Andi ("the worker bee") frosting the cake, and Nancy being Nancy - yanking on Mom's apron. Check out the red Stride Rite shoes, the Pyrex bowl and the Osterizer blender!

Here's another one. Remember the copper-bottom pans that we had to scour with brillo or "Old Dutch Cleanser" until they shined? (Not sure if this guy has two wives or what but at least they all look happy!)

This lady clearly has too much time on her hands...she made an apron to match her walls!

This one made me think of Mom's kitchen in Newington. We didn't have blue walls but I remember red and white curtains and a table and chair set similar to this.





Jumping to the 60's here..check out the knotty pine, the attractive maternity top (with pots and pans on it!) and the shirtwaist dress:-)

A swell new stainless steel integral cooktop, a little beer & hey, even Velveeta-on-Triscuits - starts looking like a party! Just don't get too close to those bricks in your nylons.
(The black and white outfit on the hostess looks like the one Mom made me for the "King Bruin Dance" in 1961!)

Here's to good memories of a simpler time...