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Comments (20)Thanks for that personal data, Deedles. I'm 65 in a few weeks. There was a real change in lifestyle in those roughly 15 yrs of our childhoods, wasn't there? My parents' house was built immediately after WWII in a new suburb of St. Paul; one grandmother lived in old 1880s house in decaying neighborhood of St. Paul and one in 1915 [new] house in town outside St. Paul. We all washed dishes but only the grandmother downtown did the scald routine. It was the rural grandma who had the big farm kitchen but the room was awful, much like the one that the kitchen planning film was trying to replace. Mostly because of lighting and lack of decorating taste. I was dating DH whose parents built a mod house by the U. of M. in 1963 with all the Midcentury Modern features that ecologists now hate. The house fascinated me. They had a skylight, a massive open fireplace, lots of glass windows, and a dishwasher! Two ovens! waterless cookware! A garbage grinder! but a dinky dining room and a one-cook kitchen. And vinyl floor even in dining area and countertops of white shiny Formica with flecks of gold. One thing that we don't see anymore and good riddance is the early plastic tablecloths that were literally tacky--they attracted things to stick to them yet the rural people loved them--cut down on laundry I suppose. We had to struggle to remove a plastic tablecloth from another family table in abt 1970 when we visited the bachelor uncle in Iowa--it adhered to the table....See MoreWho has (or is planning) a vintage kitchen?
Comments (34)We are pursueing an unusual route. We have what was a somewhat grandish 1882 home that is a mixture of Second Empire and Eastlake. Typical for the time, the back rooms (including the kitchen) were not finished to anywhere near the standard of the front (public) rooms. All the trim, moldings, floorings, hardware etc are/were several grades lower. Trying to recreate such a kitchen would seem fun for a museum, but not practical for the 21st century. And trying to create a muddle left us uninspired. Then we asked ourselves this question: What if, in 1882, they valued and utilized their kitchens as we do today? What if the kitchen was meant to be public and just as grand as the rest of the house? What would it have looked like? That question now forms our basis for design. We found the drawing below for a great ceiling and were able to order a replica, which we finally got installed about a month ago (lots of work!). We will do the floor in the Victorian style tiles from the Tile-Source. This week my wife is applying Venetian Plaster to the walls from Vasariplaster in BM August Morning, so that covers the large surfaces. The cabinets I am building and designing myself (thank God for Sketchup!), and they will be highly ornamental in the original Aesthetic Movement style, with no toe kicks and inset doors, ect. Crown Point has been an inspiration, but we are taking the design a lot further than they do in really trying to recreate period furniture/cabinet design. The idea is that upon viewing a person might reasonably think the cabinets are original to the house, with the exception that such cabinets were not built in kitchens at the time. It's all a bit risky, but it is exciting and we have our fingers crossed! Here is a link that might be useful: Tile Source...See MoreVintage Kitchen plan (partial cross post)
Comments (14)Fouram, As I mentioned, for reasons too complex to go into, this mock up understates the amount of space there will be between items. All of the items have a total dimension of 15 feet and the wall is approx 20 feet. Moreover, as the appliance guy reminded me, we hang dishtowel on ovens regularly. Bicycle, yes, that is a beautiful home, I agree. I already got some layout help; I used to have a fridge on this run until someone pointed out it would block the traffic to the butler's pantry! Thanks, Merman Mike. There is a built in hutch on the opposite wall of the kitchen, and a pantry closet next to it, and a Butler's Pantry with extensive storage between the K and the DR (and the DR has a built in china closet, too). So I am pretty well set for storage with what is there, just not shown. BTW, don't know if you recall, but I am using the Shaker Table you recommended for my kitchen dining table. Thanks!...See MoreUsing a mobile home floor plan to build a house
Comments (10)It's a good choice. Typically, mobile home floor plans are well designed and use space efficiently. Also, the framing is not complex, so if this is the first house you have built, the simple framing and layout will save you money and reduce the construction complexity. If you get a chance, go on a tour of a manufactured home factory. You will be surprised to see how similar modern manufactured home materials and construction techniques are to the materials and construction techniques used in "stick-built" homes. (That was not true years ago, when inferior materials were used in manufactured homes.) The big difference is in the roof trusses. Mobile home roofs are built with small scale lumber (often 2"x2" lumber). That's is why the roof is often the first thing to go on the manufactured home. The other thing that often goes bad on manufactured homes is the frame, because people don't appreciate the importance of a good foundation and adequately supporting the frame. I recommend that you go to a truss builder and have 2" x 4" trusses built for your ceiling and roof. I would also recommend that you consider having a crane on site to lift the trusses into place. It costs a little more, but it reduces the risk of injured workers, gets the trusses into place very quickly, and makes the job much quicker and easier. It sounds like you have an interest in learning about construction. I would suggest you watch some youtube videos. Here's a good one to start with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYqgdLB10pE (Standard Framing vs. Advanced Framing by Matt Risinger, an Austin TX builder)...See Moresweetmiserycottage
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