Light gray walls, medium gray cabinets, dark gray counters, white trim. The table is a '50s chrome number with a gray and red design in formica (scalloped edges and a coffee pot at either end). The clock is an Elvis design with the legs swiveling back and forth as the pendulum.
Same decor (white walls and cabinets, grey tiles and counter) as when we moved in. Except more grime.
White tiled walls with occasional black diamond tiles for accent.
Ash veneer cupboarding with “moss granite” Melamine counter tops.
All appliances white.
Ah a completed kitchen, only took close to 2 yrs!
We started with the floor, a Perigo laminate, wide plank amber oak. Add white “Euro” style cabinets, several have glass fronts and there are pantry cabninets too, we have tons of storage, can hide the toaster, coffeemaker, crockpot, blender the works! The glass is slubbed (?) it looks like raindrops are streaming down the glass. Granite counters and full backsplash, called Verde Butterfly, Its a large grain stone, looks black/green w/ pearlized 'feathers" with flecks/veins of gold and red when viewed up close. From a distance the counter looks almost black. On the walls we have a Heather Sage with white wood trim. The handles for the doors finally came in, we have from Hafele a somewhat retro silver matte c shaped handle with texture bumps where the fingers grasp. All white appliances. Oh and funky curtains fromNYpillowsanddrapes
SOmeone mentioned a Hoosier Cabinet. I have a Seller’s, in original condition, but it’s in my LR, as it doesn’t fit in this kitchen. BUt it holds our CD’s and kids board games.
My kitchen is done in ugly. The cabinets are yellow, and of course, they show everything. The countertops are barf-gold, the floor is white, and there is a fruit-intensive border that isn’t too bad, but it doesn’t do much to enhance the look.
Robin
Our kitchen is done in early poverty with hints of 10-years-of-neglect with a charming single-mother-of-five-children splash around the windows. The floors are thick black rubber-like “tiles”, sort of a linoleum but cheaper, the cabinets (and I use the word advisedly) are white coated plasterboard and “oak” wallpaper on the facing. The one appealing feature of the kitchen, a brick bread oven in the wall separating the kitchen from the dining room, was covered in one inch thick plaster, presumably in order to turn the chimney into a squirrel, mouse and fly sanctuary. There are interesting touches, such as the “it doesn’t get cold here in CANADA so let’s not actually insulate the outside while” motif (you may have read about this in Architectural Digest) and the “nobody cooks here so no need to vent the stove” touch, mention by, I believe, Martha Stewart. The ceiling is done in grease-fire yellow (well, we’ve cleaned the actual grease off, so its just the stain, which is similar to nicotine-yellow, but uglier); the walls are a similar color, with accents of “let’s mix latex and acrylic paint over each other”.
Thankfully, the oak to make the cabinets is sitting in the basement, so this sad state of affairs may change one day, as long as the house doesn’t get listed on the national ugly register.