White

Sue

It's so weird to me that what was once considered beautiful is now thought of as hideous....to me, that makes absolutely zero sense! But it is what it is. I wasn't old enough to have my own home in the 70's, still in school. I think my mom had just plain old white because her counters were a very pale pink so none of the fashionable colors of the day would have matched pink very well. I prefer just white or off white myself. You can never go wrong with white IMHO.

I bought my first house at 22 and single. The appliances left behind
were copper tone, washer and dryer were white. Two years later I married
and we built a house together with white appliances which were replaced
20 years later with stainless appliances. In preparation for
retirement, we built a smaller, ranch level house and relocated. Our
kitchen appliances are stainless and laundry appliances are white.

Daughter's appliances are black and son's appliances are white.

1974, Harvest Gold!

We had coppertone back in the day. As a teen, I thought it was great. I too dislike stainless appliances. Too cold and industrial looking. I have black.

Arkansas, I’m the same with my hair. It was really happening in the 60’s but now when I look back I laugh.

Elizabeth I agree with you on stainless. My objection is fingerprints & and kitty nose prints. I know that now they make stainless that is supposed to be resistant to fingerprints & animal nose prints.

We kept the appliances in the house we moved into after we were married for quite awhile. They were coppertone.

My mom's were Harvest Gold. Now she and I both have stainless. I hate stainless. It should be called stainfull

Mom's kitchen was Avocado Green refrigerator and vinyl floor. Cabinets were dark wood, countertops were formica, white with speckles. Cooktop and sink were stainless steel. I know there was a dishwasher but can't remember what it looked like. It was even smaller than my current kitchen, although the overall house was much bigger.

Washer and dryer were white, I think.

We built our house in 1977 and I chose harvest gold appliances. In the 90's we switched to black, but when we had major problems with our range we replaced it with our current dual fuel, in stainless/black. In 2010 (?) we switched the other appliances to stainless. Washer and dryer have always been white.

In 1969 thru the 70's....avocado green. After that, white, although later on I had a stainless refrigerator, mainly because my husband bought it for $100 because a guy found out his wife was a crack head and sold everything in their house for almost nothing and left. Washer and dryer have always been white.

In the early 70’s ex DH and I bought a new house and proudly had harvest gold appliances in the kitchen. Washer and dryer have always been white. Later I had a house in the 80’s with black appliances. Now stainless.

Once you thoroughly clean (quality) stainless, apply a generous coat of sealant on it. Then it only needs a light buffing from time to time.

White since the 50s. No trendy colors for me.

All appliances, sinks, toilets, bathtub, carpet were avocado. We have had all white appliances ever since. I do not like the look of stainless appliances.

Buff my appliances? No way. They're utilitarian and should be a part of the background.

;)

I was a little kid. I think the stove was avocado green because it came with the place. The other appliances were white. My parents bought a new house and everything was white.

My appliances were all white until the last house. We bought black because we did not want stainless. This house was stainless because it was the only choice we were given. I hate it. The washer and dryer are still white because I prefer the more basic top loader and dryer.

I vaguely remember white. But my mother for the bicentennial did the decor of the kitchen in red white and blue.

Parents had copper tone. My first house was in the 80s. Inherited a vintage white O'Keefe & Merritt stove. Fridge was almond then black. When we remodeled ten years ago I bought all stainless. Love it!

In 1991 we purchased a house with a side x side copper colored frig. It had crushed or cubed ice on the door. I immediately took it to a local auction house to sell & was told it was non-working they wouldn't take it. I pointed out the almost new manufacturer date on the back. The previous owner had SPECIAL ordered it! lol and it did work....

Brushworks, can you recommend a sealer? (Please excuse the hijack!)

Have stainless that came with the house and like the look. Growing up I think stove and fridge was almond and washer/dryer always white.

The appliances in the first house I owned were copper, the cabinets pink and the counter tops and flooring had quite a bit of pink, some sort of flecked formica and linoleum in that 1920's house. The washer and dryer (on a back porch laundry room) were avocado. I was working for an appliance store then and changed the kitchen appliances to avocado, painted the cabinets pale celery green. The next appliances I bought were almond.

All are white now, I'm just fine with that. My cabinets in this house are also white.

Back in the 70's I had coppertone kitchen appliances, washer and dryer were white. I loved the coppertone then and would probably still have it today if it were available when I replaced my appliances. But I went from that to white, which I didn't really like. So as they needed replacing, I went to the stainless steel, and I love it! True, they have fingerprints more often than they do not, but I'm not a perfectionist when it comes to things like that. In fact, I much prefer the 'lived in' look to the 'House Beautiful' look. Yeah, I know, I'm weird.

Brushworks, what is this sealant you mentioned? Is there a certain kind for stainless?

Rusty

Wow! I can’t believe how many of us chose harvest gold & avacado!!

Brush, I think you hit the nail on the head “quality stainless”.

My Mom and Dad built a new house shortly before I was born....all appliances

were Coppertone. Today, I have brushed stainless and love them....no finger

printing...and easy to keep clean. I know they won't last half as long as the

ones back then though.

Harvest Gold fridge and stove, and bathroom had Harvest Gold tub, etc. The height of fashion lol! All white in kitchen and bath now.

Oh wow Socks, I would like to have appliances in that color now. Back in the day I had Harvest Gold and Coppertone. Honestly I had to google coppertone, because I just called it brown. I have white now and have had for years.

Harvest gold in the 70’s. Now white appliances. But still have avocado green tub and sink! Redoing bath this summer.

Avocado kitchen appliances, Now they're wooden built-ins, except for a black stove. Washer and dryer have always been white since they're in a closet and no one sees them.

Both our first house in 1973. It came with Harvest Gold appliances and an orangey formica counter called "spice". The stove was a slide in with a stainless steel top. Washer and dryer were Harvest Gold also.

Three years later we moved to a bigger house. Still Harvest Gold but the counter tops were white tile with brown grout.

Since then I have always bought white appliances other than a washer dryer set in almond back in the early 80's. I don't care for stainless at all. don't mind it for small appliances but have no desire to have my kitchen look like a machine shop or a lab. Even my over sized range is white although its top is stainless with open burners. I don't baby it. I can't imagine having to fuss with keeping stainless polished etc. It's an industrial material to my way of thinking.

Avocado green refrigerator when we bought our first house in 1970, white stove, later, avocado green front on the DW. When refrigerator died, got white. When we moved to KY, had the hood, the refrigerator and the DW front all painted in the same "Scarab Green" that the kitchen cabinets were painted - vintage stove was white. When that refrigerator died, got a white one. When it died and the kitchen cabinets painted a new color, got a stainless DW, a stainless refrigerator, and a new stainless hood. Love my stainless! Vintage stove is still white.

Years ago, all avocado, last house had stainless, and I dont like stainless, so took them all out and replaced with white. This house I have all black, except for the stove top, which is white, (going to be replaced), and the built in oven which is avocado green. Since the whole cabinet would have to be remodeled to put in a new oven, I am looking for a used one, with a black door, so I can swap out the door. The oven itself, works better than any ovenI have had in the last 20 yrs, and those were brand new ovens. I love it.

We lived in so many apartments that had harvest gold or avocado appliances and usually carpeting that matched. I was so happy when we finally started to see apartments with white appliances and some neutral carpeting. I don’t remember the year that we finally had white, but it had to be in the late 1980’s.

I want to say Harvest Gold because the shag carpeting (which sadly I do remember) was also gold-ish.

Oh I forgot about shag carpet.

i had two new houses in the 70' s both had white appliances/fixtures both had stained cabinets first and second homes had white cabinets and white appliances beginning in 1980 i've had white cabinets and stainless appliances in 3 different homes

My mother once had a Pink Kitchen -- floor, painted cabinets, laminate countertops, *refrigerator*. Probably 1960.

I never want to have to *polish* my kitchen appliances. Heck, we don't even *wax* our cars anymore. I have white in our 2001 home and white at the condo. Actually, the fridge/freezer is paneled at home, as was the dishwasher before it had to be replaced. I will never 'panel' anything like that again. The replacement never fits the existing panels.

White until 2012 and I am pleased with my stainless steel.

I remember green shag carpeting and green paneling in the living room. I remember the microwave in the kitchen from Montgomery Wards having a faux wood side and top. And a dial

My parents had avocado, fridge stove, beige washer and dryer in the 70' 80's, All Beige in the 80-90's. The dishwasher had two options beige on one side of the panel green on the other. I inherited the beige fridge and stove they were near 25 -30 years old when the fridge died, after moving 3 different times. The stove still worked ok 5 years later when I switched to a gas stove, all white appliances currently. The parents current stove needed servicing less then 5 years old. SS. If I had my dream set they would be coloured like the picture above.

Gold color...glad that is out now.

Sorry for the delay. I was at piano lessons with grandson.

I have cabinets full of auto detailing supplies, but my favorite clean and seal products come from one company, Collinite.

Here's my maintenance program for stainless steel appliances. This method is for quality stainless found on Samsung, Kenmore Elite, Bosch, LG, and Miele.

Use a microfiber cloth for all steps.

1. Wash with warm soapy water, rinse and dry.

2. Apply an even coat of Collinite 840 Pre-Wax Cleaner. Work in small sections. Remove when dry.

3. Apply and even coat of Collinite Super Double Coat Paste Wax. Allow to haze and remove. Apply a second coat just like the first.

4. After 24 hours, the Super Double Coat will have cured.

Put on your shades.

To remove fingerprints, smudges, etc., wipe down the appliance with a damp microfiber cloth once a week, followed by a dry microfiber cloth.

Takes some effort to achieve protection, but once a treatment will keep your appliance clean and shiny.

I didn't own my own house until the 1990s. My mom's kitchen (60s and 70s) was copper tone, now it's stainless (she's dead, so it's really my dad's kitchen now).

My first kitchen, all my appliances were almond. Now I'm all-white, and I actually prefer it to stainless and black.

I've only ever had almond or bisque since I married in 1978, but I remember an avocado green stove in my parents' kitchen. They always had white refrigerators and freezers, though, and never a dishwasher.

You just reminded me, Mama, in the same house where we had the blue stove, we also had a top loading dishwasher.

Mom always had all white. Our first washer and dryer were avocado and so was the stove. We had one of the dishwashers you had to hook to the sink faucet, it was green too. Then everything went white. Then stainless. The new house has a mix of white, black, stainless, and the washer is a Samsung front loader in a beautiful blue the dryer is a top load white whirlpool. As long as it works for now we can deal with it.