Most girls jump at the chance to have a new kitchen, don't they? So when my dear DH said that I could have one... PLUS all the accessories that I wanted, I couldn't refuse such an offer. 
It was about time that I had a new ironing board ... wood is so easy to mend, should it break...and I am rather heavy handed with the old ironing.To be truthful, I hate it and tend to slam the old iron down a bit hard! My iron's been playing up lately too, which is hardly surprising. There was quite a choice, so I went for one of these 'state of the art' very heavy cordless ones, (far right).
The new slimline oven appealed to me as it sits neatly in the corner of my kitchen and what's more it came with a set of free pans. And I did so need a new kettle!
I love these new pan racks.
I decided to do a bit of recycling and stick with the old Belfast sink from my old kitchen .
But hey look at my new draining board!
Anyone for a cuppa? Imagine my delight when I found this wireless. I asked if it could count as a kitchen accessory! I'll listen to the 'Light Programme', whilst I breakfast.
A new kitchen..every girls dream! I think I am one lucky girl...mod cons, you can't beat 'em, eh?! ;-)
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Now then, before you all get incredibly green eyed and want to rush out and get the same kitchen as me, I'll just admit to telling a few fibs there!
Through the yew tree arch is Topsham Museum.
It's a wonderful little museum with a bit of nautical history... and a little bit more...like the dream kitchen! It's so well worth a visit...and it is free admission. Plus at the end you can sit and have tea and home made cakes!!
More about my Saturday Topsham trip, next time!
Finally, thank you to April for my award! Two awards in one week is enough to make me grin from ear to ear! ;-) (Just like my new kitchen did!! LOL)
That kitchen looks quite cosy but where is the automatic washing machine? Seriously - the museum looks like a worthwhile visit and maybe I'll keep some of those design ideas in mind when I choose my new kitchen.
ReplyDeleteLOL---you silly! I love the kitchen...a step back in time to be sure! Can you imagine having to do laundry old style--and then iron just about everything with one of those old heavy iron irons?! Makes one glad to be living in the new age!
ReplyDeleteSmiles, Karen
Looks like a very new-fangled kitchen!Such luxuries & labour saving devices.
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Jayne
this post made me laugh Sal.
ReplyDeletei love the kitchen... and to think it really was all 'mod cons' in those days. we are very spoilt now aren't we?
I think the kitchen looks very 'now'! The only real giveaway was the heavy old iron. I love the jelly molds. I love jelly out of a mold but cannot stand blancmange or food in aspic!
ReplyDeleteI love it! what a great time you must have had there! I really love looking at these old style kitchens...so facinating.
ReplyDeleteI have visited one where they were cooking using the methods that would have been used in the 1700's amazing.
Really did enjoy that tour!
Carol x
Great kitchen, but my word - it shows how much more work there was back then, doesn't it? x
ReplyDeleteThis museum looks just the sort of place I'd enjoy, love the kitchen - and I wish I could still listen to the Light Programme - Housewives Choice, Music While You Work, The Navy Lark - all kinds of good programmes. Sighs of nostalgia!
ReplyDeleteWhat a delightful home-spun kitchen that is! My goodness, my mother would've thought it the essence of modernity when she was a young married woman in the 1940s and 1950s! And some of those things are sooooo collectable now!
ReplyDeleteAnother wonderful museum is Bygones in St Marychurch, Torquay. I have written a short piece about this for BBC History Magazine (the next issue, I think). It's certainly worth a visit for all those who live close enough to Torquay to make this possible.
Margaret Powling
You rascal :) Give me my mod cons any day although it does look very pretty
ReplyDeleteTwiggy
Just think, this kitchen would have been every girl's dream back then. I still love all these old bits 'n bobs and they don't look out of place in a modern kitchen. Thanks for the great tour, may even get to visit one day? x
ReplyDeleteSo when did you visit my house and not tell me? I just hope you didn't take pictures of the bedrooms. They are such a mess at the moment. At least the kitchen was tidy. :o)
ReplyDeleteOk, Ive booked a date in my diary next week for a visit there, I HAVE to see that kitchen for myself.. how wonderful! Are you still ok for tomorrow? I have a certain someone sitting on a shelf waiting to come home with you!! x
ReplyDeleteOh what a shame! I thought you'd got yourself the perfect kitchen there! Lucy x
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! I must admit to believing you at first.
ReplyDeleteThe style of that kitchen really does look like ours - yikes! We've kept all the old tongue and groove that was here. We do have rather more labour-saving devices though (and I don't make very many jellies in moulds like that). Just showed it to Mr P and he said I should post about our kitchen now!
ReplyDeleteHave lurked for a while on your blog and not commented. Really enjoying it
Emma
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For a moment there I thought it really was your kitchen - thinking perhaps you truly go for the post-vintage look!!!
ReplyDeleteOf course some people would probably enjoy living like that - remember those TV programs where families had to live in another time?
As for me, I have to say I enjoy things a little more modern and labor-saving - that teeny draining board would have to go!
Great post Sal.
OOH I really love that kitchen!!! It's fabulous!
ReplyDeleteIsn't it funny Sal how many of us strive for this vintage look and yet our mod con kitchens would have been so envied in those days..
ReplyDeleteIt does remind me of a friends kitchen and she has one of those very early gas cookers that still works!!
Michele X