Now, for those who are groaning that you can’t afford new cabinets or update your dated kitchen, here’s a good post that gives some good ideas about making it more timeless without spending a fortune. In that case, there’s a very good possibility that it will not be a classic, timeless kitchen. However, suppose you have a kitchen designer who presents a design she’s done 500 times before, and it’s the same kitchen that your closest 600 friends have. That is unless I’m trying to show what I think you shouldn’t do, like in another favorite post about so-called French kitchens. Frankly, I strive with most kitchens I post to put up those that I feel are timeless. In addition, because of time constraints, this is not the definitive list of timeless kitchens. Therefore, please know, this is only my opinion which you don’t have to agree with. So, if you LOVE oak cabinets lining threes sides of your kitchen, that is YOUR timeless kitchen. That’s because, above all ELSE, a timeless kitchen is personal. It’s not enough to just look at a bunch of pretty pics and say, here it is.īut, please know that no bible states, “THIS is the only way to do a timeless kitchen.” That, to me, is one way a kitchen can be timeless.īefore we look at the rest of the timeless kitchens, we must first discuss what goes into a timeless kitchen. It’s not a fancy kitchen, but it’s unpretentiously dramatic and beautiful. But, over time, they developed their sense of timelessness.īut, if you look at the masters of interior design who specialize in a timeless look and timeless kitchens, I think you’ll find that what they did 30 years ago is pretty much what they’re doing now.Ī 128-year-old Furlow Gatewood will be doing the same thing in 30 years.įurlow Gatewood’s timeless kitchen (unkitchen) with blue and white Chinoiserie transferware. Perhaps like Marie, they just didn’t know what they didn’t know. However, the moral of the story is: it depends where someone is starting from. Okay, haha! I hope you enjoyed that little story. So, she’s going to need to build an extra-large pantry. Only now, she has 22 grandchildren, including six sets of twins. Thus, Marie reads all the Unkitchen posts on Laurel’s blog she had bookmarked for the last 15 years.Īnd, guess what? She loves each of those timeless kitchens the SAME as she did 15 years ago. But, it has a kitchen that looks like the one above, which won’t do. Marie’s second husband bought her the house of her dreams for an anniversary present. However, Mary soon met a handsome, well-off man who genuinely adores her, and as soon as the quints graduated college, they got married and were very happy. Eighteen years of working three jobs caught up with the poor guy. Unfortunately, Marie’s husband passed away suddenly one evening the following summer. Mary swooned and sighed over the timeless kitchens of her dreams, as they appeared one after another, after another on Laurel’s blog. What the hell is an unkitchen, she wonders?Īnd then Mary sees something that speaks to her like nothing ever has before, except when she nearly choked on a ring in her mashed potatoes, while her then-boyfriend proposed marriage was swearing his undying love to her. Then, Mary happens upon an interesting word she’s never heard before. Surfing the Internet, Marie stumbles upon, gets sucked into Laurel Bern’s decorating blog.īefore she knows it, she’s so immersed that she fails to notice three of the quints sneaking in the back door because they lost their shoes (and one, her dress) at some point. Well, she certainly hasn’t had a moment to keep up with what’s going on in the outside world of classic kitchen design.įrankly, the last thought on her mind is decorating– anything.īut, one evening balmy evening while the quints, now in their final year of high school, are out on a five-hour drunken prom night joy-ride, Marie took the opportunity to sit down and wait up for them. I would call it the generic late 20th-century kitchen.Īnd, since Mary’s been busy taking care of her quintuplets for nearly 18 years, spending most of her free-time purchasing sucking-up gifts for 438 teachers for 13 years of five concurrent teachers’ conferences, etc. However, this is not one of the timeless kitchens. Marie’s kitchen looks like this because that’s how her mother’s kitchen looks.Īnd, Marie’s mother-in-law’s kitchen, her four aunt’s kitchens, 11 cousins, two sisters, 18 BFFs, and Marie’s husband’s three ex-wives’ kitchens.Īll of them have THIS kitchen. For instance, a reader, we’ll call her “Marie,” might have a kitchen that looks like this. Well, they might, but I think that it depends on where one’s taste started. Nothing like going out on a long limb to say that a room that could very well cost you 10s of thousands, if not 100s of thousands of dollars, will be to your liking for the rest of your life.
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