The Look of Love

This is the look! I'm going to do everything in my power to find the range hood. (Notice the classic vent beneath it!) It will be mine, OH YES, it will be mine!

Now We're Cookin' With Gas!

My two-year stove hunt is coming to a close. As previously mentioned, our beauty Philco is about to be put out to pasture. Actually, it's a great stove with double ovens. It just needs new burners, and East Coast Austin would be happy to do the job, but any Betty who's any Betty knows that gas is the only way to cook. We're already set up for it. Someone just capped it off ages ago when they switched over to the electric Philco in a kitchen-of-tomorrow move.

It took us a while, but we saved enough money to place a call to Christian Maupin at Dream Stoves. Austin confirms Christian's stellar reputation, and we are currently awaiting delivery of our Dream Stove, an O'Keefe and Merritt 900 series, which Christian will complete and ship this month!

Even my husband, who only tolerates my midcentury obsession, likes it. He said it looks so good he'd drive it to work! I must agree. Get a load of this!

UPDATE:
We had a horrible experience with dreamstoves.com. Instead of refunding our down payment of $3,500 like he said he would, Christian Maupin, president of dreamstoves.com, sold our stove to someone else and kept our money. Please see details here.

1950's Magic Chef Gas Stove: Double Oven

The Philco electric double oven is on her last leg, so I scored a vintage gas Magic Chef for $200. Everyone says it's in great condition. Even the gas man who came out and refused to install it because, "It ain't got no regulator." Talked to someone about updating it. He said he could do it for under $1,000. Said he could do it, but had never done it before. I don't want anyone reading about us in the news so I declined. Lesson learned. Trying to get off cheap actually set me back re: effort and cash. That's OK. I've got plans.











Pictures of the Magic Chef:

Midcentury Manor

You've seen our living room. And I know I posted on the kitchen before, but here are more pictures in honor of a new friend who decided to preserve history in her own midcentury kitchen:

Fabulous Fabric

Bam!

Oldies But Oldies

Things that do NOT get better with time...

1928 House Down the Street

This old home is just down the street. It's for sale so we got to look inside. I did a quick, sloppy photoshop of the kitchen in a more suitable color. Compare it to its current blue, and I think you will agree that older colors in older homes are just...better. It was fun to look at this house. The old blueprints hang in a frame on the wall, and it was formerly owned by a funeral director at one point! LOL!