OMG, what a totally amazing range!

Are you wanting to do a modern kitchen with just the one period piece, or a more generally 20s vibe?

I am wanting a vintage, electic, rustic, farmhouse look. This would be the only period piece but yet is practical for two people. I have a sideboard that I turned into an island and an upper from a hoosier cabinet with small possum belly drawers that I want to incorporate somehow into the scenario. May use it for a coffee bar and find or make a table or cabinet below it. I am leaning toward black countertops, maybe honed granite. The ceilings in this over 100 year house are at least 9 foot tall. Given that the sky's the limit for upper cabinets.

Love the stove! I have a non-functioning cream and green one between the kitchen and DR. I keep potatoes and onions in the drawers and grocery sacks in the oven.

I would do soapstone for the counter--for a vintage rustic vibe it is perfect! I don't have soapstone, but I used variegated black marble and vintage lab table tops for the perimeter counters.

Maybe match your cabinets to the beige, or go a few shades lighter, and use red accessories. If the sky's the limit, look at Big Chill refrigerators in the mint/aqua color.

Please come back and show us the finished kitchen, and any updates you want to share!

Vintage? Yes. Rustic? No. That was a sophisticated stove for its time. Perhaps you'll add a hoosier cabinet. I would Google "vintage kitchen 1920s" you'll see that the sinks tended to be very large. The sinks often had a stool so that you could sit at it for hours preparing the meals… And they also had the old truly icebox refrigerators (I like the idea of the big chill fridge rather than try to replicate all old appliances...) And behind some cupboard I would still put a dishwasher or dish drawer. I would expect the cabinets to be painted but here you would want the colors of the stove to really shine and not have the cabinet diminish the stove. The floors may be painted, but they would be painted/stencilled with some type of repeating pattern. Functioning hoods were not common back then. More likely you had some kind of a large catch area and a hole in the ceiling and I would absolutely want a hood. Good luck with us it will be a lot of fun.

Great post, practicgal.

Functioning hoods were not common back then. More likely you had some kind of a large catch area and a hole in the ceiling

It's true that opening a window often was it for ventilation, but they did use hoods over the big ranges in large homes. Here are two examples of hoods from the 20s, although I'm kind of agnostic about the second one, but it works well. First one was obviously meant for a range like the one in the second pic:

I've also seen big barrel hoods in photos from the 20s.

FWIW, here's Ladies' Home Journal's ideal kitchen for 1924:

Love it, look forward to seeing your progress.

This story on modern/rustic farmhouses just came up on my houzz feed, not sure if everyone gets the same feed so I'll link it. The second photo is a minty-ish kitchen.

[https://www.houzz.com/magazine/15-modern-rustic-farmhouses-celebrate-simple-pleasures-stsetivw-vs~69344790[(https://www.houzz.com/magazine/15-modern-rustic-farmhouses-celebrate-simple-pleasures-stsetivw-vs~69344790)

Yeap, mama goose is right, go 1 to 2 shades lighter for cabinets than the cream of the stove, but consider wood counters. My girlfriend had a time warp 20's kitchen and it had wood counters. Also, no toe kick.

Ooo, Ooooo maybe you can do real linoleum for the floor a cream on cream check would be very authentic, with a pencil of black to outline the room. Our original check was a green and cream check, one of many floors.

Don't forget the wall mount sink! Can't wait to see what you do!

Have fun, it's a wonderful ride!

I know this is not the same stove but feel it is the same vibe. This is one of my all time favorite unfitted kitchens. Maybe you can get some ideas or inspiration?

Thanks everyone! I would love a Console sink with drain boards but that won't be feasible... 1. the window above existing sink does not have the clearance for the back of those sinks and the exterior is brick and not really wanting to raise the windows to allow for it and fix the brick. 2. Those are very large I am thinking 4 - 5 foot? That takes a lot of area where I really don't plan to pull up a chair and do dishes all day. Ha Ha rather try and downside to a farm sink with drain board on one side and a DISHWASHER. :)

Agreed this is mine. I couldn't afford the space either! Often you can find them without the tall wall mount also to eliminate any problems with the brick.

I have talked to various people about the venting of this stove. It is not like a typically gas stove. In those days, they did not have the insulation of the exterior. It is meant to vent in the back. In the winter the heat would not be a problem but in the other months, I would want a ventilation system. That could be a hood that vent the heat outdoors or a duct up the back wall and out. The way I cook...thinking a hood would serve dual purposes. Unless I take the batteries out of the smoke detectors. :). I found the pictures from aktillery9aktillery9 very interesting. I love the look but I am not that creative but the last picture showed how they vented the stove horizontal across the room. I would not have thought to do that.

heatheron40 how beautiful! love the windows! and view! I will have to research more for lower back rise.

Actually, they did have insulation, but by now in most of those old ovens it has slipped and packed down. It's not a big deal to replace it.

Thought I'd share this picture I came across yesterday. This is my dad's house when he was a boy. The house was built in the early 20s, though this picture was taken in about 1940. The stove must be new, because they moved to the country (now suburb) several years later, and I remember a cool gas range in the basement that I heard was from "the old house". Anyway, the house is the picture is not a farmhouse but a suburban house, but I just love the cabinets.

Ack, it's sideways. Hmm. That might explain a family trait...

By the way, see the stool in the corner? I have it, as well as an enamel-topped table that is just out of camera range.

I suggest looking at Modern Aire for a vent hood. They can be totally customized and they work really well with a vintage stove.

Modern Aire with vintage stove.

As others have suggested, look at 1920's kitchens and butlers pantry's to get inspiration. 1920's kitchens were were eclectic and almost all had a Hoosier or Hoosier type cabinet in the kitchen. In the late 20's and early 30's, cabinets began changing from Hoosier and free standing cabinets to standardized cabinets with toe kicks. Many kitchens became modernized with newer cabinets but kept older appliances.It was the beginning of the kitchen triangle.

Also look at Hoosier style cabinets for color inspiration. They were painting Hoosiers in cream with painted trim especially Sellers and Napanee in the 1920's. Generally, they were a cream or white main color with another color for trim.

That era also used marble, slate, wood and soapstone for counters. However counters were not normally very wide unless they had a wall of counters, The kitchen table in the center of the kitchen and the Hoosier was where most prep work was done. However, towards the end of the 1920's and early 30's linoleum was being brought to the kitchen but they were mostly black for the counter. Floors were wood or tiled. Linoleum on floors is more 30's.

Antique homes is a great place to start. The other site is Archive.org

At Archive.org you can look up old ad's for kitchen's, builders books, Hoosier's and hardware to see what was being sold in the 1920's. It's a bit of a frustrating site to find what you want but once you get the hang of using the search, it's got a huge repository of information. Sears catalogs, Curtis cabinets and Hoosier style companies should be your first search.

Incorporating your Hoosier sounds lovely with that wonderful old stove.

Hannah's Treasures Vintage wallpaper

This is another site for inspiration. She also sells on Ebay and Etsy. Those are two other sites to get inspiration.

I just did a quick search on archive.org

Upton Catalog 1929

That is from that catalog.

For hoosier color schemes, if you're on facebook look for The Hoosier Cabinet Guy. He has many, many photos of interesting original hoosiers.

Have you turned the stove/oven on high settings and checked for exterior hot spots? I burned the palm of my hand badly as a young child when I leaned against my grandma's stove...my palm was one great blister.

As I said earlier in this thread, it's almost certain that the insulation needs replacing (unless it's been done in the past 20 years or so, which is unlikely), but that is fairly straightforward to do.

It will also make the range smell a lot better. Here's one place that sells it:

http://www.antiquestoves.com/toac/InsulationStovesRanges.html

The stove had been used up to two years until the 90 some year old lady passed away. I have not hooked it up yet and am not sure if it is adapted to propane or natural gas yet either. As far as insulation, there are two warming ovens on both sides of the oven and broiler that will feed from the heat coming from oven. The back where the duct work would have been will be where must of the heat will come from when the oven is on. I had a modern gas stove and it vented across front of cook top. It got pretty hot. I hated using it in the summer. Because of that my prior kitchen had electric oven with gas cook top. I had talked to retailers who sell refurbished vintage and antique stoves and got their input. I probably won't use the oven much in the summer and if I do, I will have an exhaust above it to vent the heat outside just like my 5 burner cook top I had prior. These days unlike in the 20's there are other smaller appliances that will help reduce the need for using the oven. People comment when they see it about how small the oven is. I guess they didn't have Butterball turkeys and extra large pizza's to bake. In reality, they probably didn't eat like we do now! They looked pretty thin back in the day. LOL.

Love that range!

Our house was built in 1926. The kitchen was more or less original when we bought the place--still had an ice box with a delivery hatch in the exterior wall of the house for ice.

And still had a Hoosier style built in cabinet, which had been painted white but which my GC says was most likely finished wood originally. We sacrificed the ice box to get a dishwasher, but kept the Hoosier style cabinet and painted it blue.

Our counter was tile, which we opted to change to marble.

Yesterday, I watched Practical Magic with Sandra Bullock. I pretty much just stared at all the details in the Kitchen of the beautiful Victorian home. The kitchen had everything I loved! The focal point for the stove and the plate racks. There was not a modern appliance to be seen.