My Vintage Kitchen!

Here are some pictures of a few of the vintage treasures I've found for my kitchen in the last couple years. I didn't spend much on any of these items, proof that you can have the look you want without going broke. Many of these items are new but have that vintage "look" and others were found on ebay, in thrift stores, or antique stores. It just takes a little patience to find good prices!

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Osterizer Beehive Chrome blender, this was a wedding gift and came from Target, I believe about $50-$60

Acrylic Straw Dispenser, $10, Bed, Bath & Beyond

Hamilton Beach Classic Drink Mixer, $10, Antiques & More, Lawrence, KS (GREAT deal....these are about $60 new!)



















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Infinity Instruments Retro Metal Wall Clock, $30, Bed, Bath & Beyond

Chrome wall-mount foil/paper towel/wax paper dispenser, $9, ebay



















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Copper pot rack, $35, garage sale

Copper colander with brass handle, $7, Goodwill



















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Funky wine glasses made to look like vintage paper cups, $3 each on clearance from Urban Outfitters online

















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Kentucky Club tobacco tin, $5, found at an antique store in Omaha, NE that is no longer in business, unfortunately.

Premium Saltines cracker tin, $4, found at the Rivermarket Antique Mall in Kansas City, MO

Hamilton Beach chrome mixer, $25 on ebay (Works great! If you click on the picture and enlarge it, you can see the great atomic star detail on the nose of the mixer... fabulous!)

Vintage House & Home Advertisements

I spend a good amount of time scouring the internet for ads like these, so I thought this blog would be a good place to keep all my pictures together. My husband and I are about to move into a fabulous little ranch house that was built in 1956 and my goal is to restore it to its original glory. Luckily the house is a time capsule, with fantastic boomerang formica countertops, chrome and milk glass lighting, fold-up bamboo closet doors, a pink and gold medicine cabinet in the bathroom, a fully in-tact clothes line, and a backyard with a set of metal lounge chairs on a great little patio, complete with a tin roof. I can't wait to sit outside with a cocktail and listen to the rain on the metal roof. But I digress. These ads are meant to help me pick out paint colors and give me a heads up on what furniture and decorative items are must-haves.

Love these pinch-pleat drapes and the color scheme.


I'm not much for pink in the kitchen personally, but I love how imaginative they were in the 50's with their color choices.

The clean lines and modern look are what draw me to this time period.
"Simplify, simplify" --Henry David Thoreau

Love that red light.

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