House Tour - Kitchen, Bathroom & Master Bedroom

Did you look into the kitchen in the last post? I told you to save that so-sweet-it's-sour eye candy for a dedicated post and here it is. Behold the kitchen in all it's pink glory!

The kitchen cabinets were a wedding gift to my grandma from her mother.

I'm not sure why the oven is open and the light is on...

Before these appliances, there were avocado green ones but I'm not sure what was there before that.

There was a stainless steel sink before this one. More Precious Moments on the shelves here. The door on the left leads to the back yard.

The lower cabinets have pull-out slider shelves. Very ahead of the times! The narrow cabinet on the right has a slide-out towel bar.

Grandma intentionally had the soffit made shorter than the cabinets. She definitely had a vision. She used an old wooden cream cheese box like the one below and covered it with wallpaper to use as a built-in planter.
This room was rewallpapered on 10/27/1978 with the paper you see here. Before this was a geometric 3D square patterned paper. 

She's a fan of Raggedy Ann and Andy and this is just where SOME of the collection lives.

This side of the kitchen next to the fridge has more slide out lower cabinets. The center cabinet has a shelf that swings out and up & locks at counter height which holds the mixer. I forgot to take a photo of the insides of the lower cabinets. 

She has an interesting way of storing her dishware. but she doesn't use it much so it's not inconvenient to keep it this way.

Some more Raggedy Ann stuff and her handpainted eggs. She did a lot of ceramic work and was very skilled with a paintbrush.

She had always wanted a range hood but grandpa installed this exhaust fan instead. She hates it. She kept the circular cutout from this fan which is what I scanned to to make the background of this blog so look to the left or right to see the countertop and backsplash detail. The door on the right of the fridge leads to the basement.

The floor is standard linoleum floor tiles and the star was custom inlaid from larger pieces of the same kind of tiles.

Now we can head back down the hallway and check out the bathroom.

While I'm not fond of the colors in here, I do love this bathroom. I think the tub is so cool and the room is large for a 50s bathroom. 

Two of the things I hate most about this room are the lighting and the mirror but the mirror is probably what makes the room feel so much more spacious. I hate fluorescent lighting with a passion along with the weird floating soffit that contains the light.  

The built in linen storage is great. The bottom cabinet has a laundry chute on one side.

Now the last room on this floor, the master bedroom.

SO...MUCH...PINK.

The Case between the door and the closet is Grandma's dollhouse. She made it in the 70s. I'll post pictures of that someday.

Hope you enjoyed the first floor phase of the house tour! I still have to take photos of the basement where grandma lives now and the second floor bedroom and attic space which is currently a mess.

House Tour - Foyer, Hallway, Living Room, & Dining Room

I jumped to the back bedroom first but now I'd like to go back to the porch so we can enter through the front door.

Welcome to the foyer.

About 10 years ago Grandma went through a Victorian phase. 

The diamonds in the door are routed out and Grandma hand painted them pink.

This is the second wallpaper in this room in my lifetime. I'll have to ask Grandma what was here before the flocked wallpaper prior to this one.

Coat closet in the foyer.

Stepping to the left from the foyer is the hallway leading to the 2 first floor bedrooms and the bathroom.

This is the view looking out of the master bedroom just to the left of the foyer. On the left is a narrow linen closet, then the bathroom, followed by a broom closet, and at the end of the hallway is the back bedroom on the left and the kitchen on the right. The pink carpet feels like it goes on forever.

She's a fan of Precious Moments.

I like this house picture frame. Maybe painted white.

View from the other end of the hallway looking past the bathroom and linen closet into the master bedroom. 

Making a left at the the end of the hallway above will lead back past the foyer into the living room which is where we're headed next.

The Cornices over the windows in the living and dining rooms were made by grandpa and reupholstered over the years as they redecorated. 

The stone on the fireplace matches the stone on the front of the house

This sectional couch is the first and only couch that has ever been in this room. Setting it up with the opposite ends connected makes it more like a traditional couch instead of L-shaped. I'ts been reupholstered 3 times!

This is the original newspaper ad for the couch that Grandma has saved all these years. She colored it lightly.

The stairs lead up to the upstairs bedroom.

This is where my father's room was once my aunt was born.

Opposite the living room is the dining room. Well, Grandma calls it the "Dinette" which I guess is appropriate since it's small and open to the living room.

The dining room chairs got the pink upholstery treatment when the couch and window cornices were recovered. 

Grandma had the upper portion of the china cabinet put on legs to give it a little extra height.

No peeking in that Kitchen! The bathroom and kitchen are getting a post all their own next.