White kitchen in prewar question

Aael921: Can you be more specific about the period? There's a difference in style between pre-WWI Beaux Arts or Edwardian and 1933 Deco.

It's 1928. Looks like I asked the right place! Thanks.

Paint the existing cabinets white if you want classic. Anything else will simply be 2013's idea of "classic prewar". In ten years, you'll see all the 2013 and none of the classic.

It's like all these suburbanites who ruin prewar apartments with inappropriate mouldings (crowns, I'm talking about you) and think they're somehow restoring the place. Or stain the floors horrible tacky suburban brown colors, instead of the natural wood tones (with ambering over time) that they were originally.

If you must rip out the cupboards, go modern, and at least in ten years' time you'll have the less embarrassing result of a 2013 modern look. In twenty years it'll be retro-chic.

>It's like all these suburbanites who ruin prewar apartments

Which suburbs have these prewar apartments?

Aael921

I think a lot depends on what type of cabinet. If the doors are flush doors it will look very modern of they are painted. If you go with a shaker style I think it depends on what type of moldings ate used within the doors.

Or, better yet: Go for the "eternal" look - no worries about outdatedness here, & will save your heirs a shopping step down the road. Ya can't lose!

http://www.coffinitup.com/kitchen/kitchen.htm

There was indeed a feature called the "flying coffin" in the kitchens of some California modernist houses (tract houses, even, I believe) with vaulted ceilings, circa late 1950s or early 1960s.

Because the ceiling flew too high over the open side of the open kitchen, rods extended down from it to support the upper cabinets. The result allowed the functionality of having more cabinets at a practical height, while still allowing the lofty "big sky" feel of the big sloping ceiling.

I want. (Although I don't much care for vaulted ceilings.)

Walpurgis - that is morbid. I'm dying to know how the client reacted.

Thanks Primer05.

Client thought it was bury nice.

That actually made me LOL. Thanks. I need some more humor in my life apparently.