Comments on: FOs: Freddy’s Felted Box + OYTAOL Kitchen!

By: KC Frye

KC Frye — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:07:05 +0000

I thought I was the only one to use a file cabinet for my kitchen. Acutally, it is in my laundry room, right off my kitchen. It is a two drawer very deep cabinet and I use the top shelf for canned goods and the botton shelf for boxed packages. Works great. Just got to remember not to open the top drawer if the bottom drawer is pulled out. Yikes!!

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:05:15 +0000

Wow!!! How on earth did you get such a wonderfully, awesome kitchen??? Oh to have such a kitchen… I rarely envy others – but I’m going to spend the rest of the day being jealous of your kitchen! LOL… And great job organizing!! I, too, am a lable nut… I even have labels inside my cupboards of what is inside each cupboard… and I’m not that organized… really. Thanks for sharing!!

By: Ruthie

Ruthie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:53:31 +0000

Great organizing! Love the phrase “precarious towers of crap”. This just about sums up every cabinet I have from the kitchen, my sewing studio, my craft studio to all the storage in the garage!

Would also love to have a copy of that grocery list! Got a link?

By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:55:06 +0000

I am so jealous of how much space you have, and how organized you are. I love it! It is inspiring me to tackle my own kitchen with a vengeance.

Any chance you might share a downloadable version of that grocery list? It looks like my holy grail of grocery lists, and I have tried to find one similar with no luck.

By: cory

cory — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:49:18 +0000

Oh, and on the subject of Tupperware…the old pieces are soo cool…like the mint green lettuce keeper and the little white popsicle makers. We had a Tupperware lunch box, the mini Tupperware cups, and the Tupperware jello mold…just to name a few.
My mom stores all of her dried goods in Tupperware much like you do, and although I scoffed at this when I was younger…now I hope that they’re part of my inheritance! ;))

By: cory

cory — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:25:29 +0000

I’m afraid that my countertops are not the high point of my kitchen–you have far better, and I love your steel shelving and appliances. What might look like debris or stains in the corner of the kitchen are actually where there is no real surface left on the counter, just bare wood.
We are renting this place from dear friend, and he has offered to redo the kitchen with oak veneers, and we have asked him to forego this until we move out. We’ve even asked if we might have the cabinets if he ever tears them out. And yes, they could use a new paint job,(rust really can get to these type of cabinets) but I love thinking of all the ladies who have cooked here, and that hides the flaws for me..
It’s interesting that our realtor, who really loves old houses, immediately exclaimed over these cabinets when she came over. She even knew the company that made them. The other day I noticed a “Sears” sticker on the inside door. Imagine getting your complete kitchen mail order, back in the day!

By: Regina Leeds

Regina Leeds — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:12:04 +0000

What beauty you have created! Congratulations!

Blessings,
Regina

By: Nikol

Nikol — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:26:45 +0000

Cory, the cabinets are definitely staying! I adore them. I’ll bet they’re from the same company as yours. Ours have been painted (sloppily, but I’m into the way it’s worn, so decided to forgo refinishing them), but the were originally white, like yours They came from the Home Ec room of our other school building, which was built in 1921, I think. The counter tops were amazing, too, but too impractical to keep–the edges and back splashes were beautiful cast aluminum that was way too much of a crud-catcher for a semi-commercial kitchen. I can’t tell–do yours have those?

I did sand and repaint the interiors which were rusted, and I will probably paint the footings with some fresh enamel one of these days, because they’re a mess–flooding in the old school basement, where the home ec room was, and our basement as well.

Honestly, this is the one wee oasis of non-chaos in my home at the moment, but I’m slouching slowly towards order.

And you don’t know the half of it about the Tupperware. That’s just a little fraction of the new stuff, from when I was briefly a Tupperware Lady a decade ago. I also have a big collection of dreamy vintage Tupperware that I’ll hopefully one day display.

By: cory

cory — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:57:57 +0000

And the Tupperware fetish is nice too! Reminds me of my mom…

By: cory

cory — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:55:08 +0000

Hey Nikol,
I am totally in awe of your kitchen!! And you say you’re not organized! HA! Woman, that’s amazing…
I think that we have the same exact style of kitchen cupboards and drawers, although mine are not in a school, of course. Our little house was built back in the 30s, and the cupboards are metal and all attached together. Same exact handles, etc. I love this look, and have found it in many old advertisements…
Sounds like you’re redoing your counter-tops–I just hope you keep those loverly cabinets!
My kitchen is posted in my blog above if you’d care to check it out. Keep those pics of the Harveyville school coming–I am an artist and am hoping to bring my artist friends there for a retreat sometime.