Chocolate Cake in a Vintage Kitchen
We recently moved into an old farmhouse and we thought it would be fun to go retro with the kitchen decor. We inherited a 1940's kitchen cabinet from Mr. D-oh's Grandma May when she passed a few years back. We love it and it reminds us of Grandma, so why not decorate the kitchen around it?
Craig’s List has been good to us thus far. I found an old chrome and Formica table and chairs (in yellow and green Moonglo) as well as a remarkable old stove. I’m still hunting for a refrigerator, but I’m in no hurry.
Anyhoo, I made a chocolate cake for a family get-together. Mint chocolate frosting with roses.
Added some blue because I read somewhere a long time ago that you should use at least three colors when decorating. So red, blue, and green for this one. I don’t know if that’s really a thing, but it stuck with me.
And here’s a bit of the kitchen with the amazing stove. It’s purported to be a 1948 Western Holly. Works like a champ and kind of looks like we have a laundromat in the kitchen. I'd never seen a stove with porthole windows or a yellow top before, and it matched the table so we had to get it.
Not pictured is the neon flamingo on top of Grandma May’s green cabinet (you can see a bit of the cabinet in the first photo above). Trust me, it’s fabulous. Ups the kitsch factor just the right amount.
Well, that’s all for now. Hope you enjoyed the mini-tour.
Enjoy!
CookieD-oh
Craig’s List has been good to us thus far. I found an old chrome and Formica table and chairs (in yellow and green Moonglo) as well as a remarkable old stove. I’m still hunting for a refrigerator, but I’m in no hurry.
Anyhoo, I made a chocolate cake for a family get-together. Mint chocolate frosting with roses.
Added some blue because I read somewhere a long time ago that you should use at least three colors when decorating. So red, blue, and green for this one. I don’t know if that’s really a thing, but it stuck with me.
And here’s a bit of the kitchen with the amazing stove. It’s purported to be a 1948 Western Holly. Works like a champ and kind of looks like we have a laundromat in the kitchen. I'd never seen a stove with porthole windows or a yellow top before, and it matched the table so we had to get it.
Not pictured is the neon flamingo on top of Grandma May’s green cabinet (you can see a bit of the cabinet in the first photo above). Trust me, it’s fabulous. Ups the kitsch factor just the right amount.
Well, that’s all for now. Hope you enjoyed the mini-tour.
Enjoy!
CookieD-oh
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