Need photos of hoods for vintage stove
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melissastar
12 years agogregincal
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DIY Vintage Stove advice needed
Comments (3)You can find lots of support and information at the Old Appliance Club, they have manuals etc, although you really just need a good screwdriver and common sense. :-) To get the doors off, unscrew the inside corner screws and then lift them off, they kind of hook over the top. On the porcelain, there are a number of ways to refresh it, from using readily available stove paint to having the pieces sandblasted and re-glazed. Do you have any pictures? I have a 1949 OKM that I rehabbed by myself, it's really not terribly difficult. The good news is that everything breakable can be repaired, one way or another. Here is a link that might be useful: How-To manuals at The Olde Appliance Club...See MoreSilly hood question for those with (or who like!) vintage ranges
Comments (28)Yup, I think we're tiling at least part of that wall (it wraps around in an L from the sink wall, so I can't figure out where to stop the backsplash otherwise---right now there's a chimney and it stops at the chimney). I had the same issue with many of the Victorian or 50s hoods looking, well, too Victorian or 50s...and we're not even going for true "period" per se. I'm hoping a simple modern hood will do the trick if I can find one that looks right---we're also not hiding the dishwasher, etc. so I figure throwing in some modern trappings isn't such a bad thing at that point. The Vent-a-Hood website, while mostly filled with lots of hoods that are out of our budget, did have some nice photos of canopy style hoods used as freestanding hoods with no cabinets, though (and I actually think those look great with cabinets to the sides, so maybe something that could work for yours?) The funny part is that we have the ceiling fan with the pull-switch right now (not that we use it as it shorts the kitchen out with the new GFCI outlets...) I went through a very brief little period of wondering if we could add a modern blower up in the attic and still use the old fan, since it looks really cool (probably c. 1950, all chrome-y) but got vetoed incredibly quickly on that one! We're trying to think of creative places to use the vent cover and an iron cover that's part of our built-on ironing cabinet that sadly is coming out with a wall removal, and has sparks cut out all over it---also very cool, and can't wait to see it when the paint is stripped!...See MoreKeeping Vintage Cabinets:Farrow & Ball Paint? Need Frig & Hood
Comments (1)It's pretty common for older homes not to have range hoods, but happily looks like it should be relatively easy to add, from your photo. You can cook without it till you get to it, though. (We've been cooking without one for three years, and previous owners cooked without it for 90-odd years before then!) We don't have our fridge yet so I can't comment on performance, but it does meet your height requirement---the Fisher & Paykel single door bottom freezer. I really like the interior and freezer designs, though again, we haven't used it yet. Needs 69" of height for venting and 33" of width (can't tell how much space you have there?), comes in stainless (and also white), and is pretty reasonably priced. We're buying ours locally, which also ended up being the cheapest option, for whatever that's worth. Good luck---and I love your stainless countertops!...See MoreMatching a range hood to vintage stove
Comments (5)Vent-a Hood is as good as any other brand at any given price level. How noisy are they? The ventilation industry uses sones as a way of measuring how loud a fan is in range hoods. As a unit of reference 6 sones is the level that we typically speak at when seated around a conference table. Keep in mind that noise is a subjective thing which varies depending upon a person's tolerance to such. The sones are always listed for all hoods so you can compare to make a decision....See Moremarcolo
12 years agoOh god no. Not that hood.
The "classic" hood to pair with a vintage stove is the Vent-A-Hood "Classic."
Or the VAH Model A.
{{!gwi}}Here is a link that might be useful: Vent a Hood
dianalo
12 years agozeebee
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Circus Peanut
12 years agoLove your yellow! My 1949 OKM is white with yellow knobs, but I love the reverse too. You'll love the stove.
I went the budget route and made my own hood out of tiled plywood -- I had originally used a more modern wall hood that didn't really match well at all. This one seems to fit just right and the insert is higher quality than what we could afford as a "finished" hood package.
farmgirlinky
12 years agojeanneart93003
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12 years agofarmhousebound
12 years agoWhen I first saw the barrel hood by Modernaire, I knew it was the only one to go over "Baby", our Chambers stove :)
hosenemesis
12 years agoI didn't use a hood with my O'Keefe and Merritt- I used a microwave. Not as pretty as some hoods, but I like it there.
Renee
farmgirlinky
12 years agotomuch2chus
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12 years agoOh. my.
These stoves in this thread are so gorgeous ! Circus! Is that your kitchen? I thought I'd seen pics of your kitchen and I don't remember it looking like that! That hood is awesome. Farmhouse... CHAMBERS IMPERIAL. ! What a beauty.
The AGA, the... oh.
Well, OP your lovely O'keefe certainly needs something beautiful up there. I have a mint green Chambers and I've kinda given up on the vintage-y range hood for both space and cost reasons (and because I like to change my mind about 40 times a day) but here is a pic of something similar to what I'm going to do but with an insert fan...
Here is another one that I thought was nifty... is that an Ok&M stove?
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