Battle of the Kitchens

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

Battle of the Blue kitchens.
One with a view and one with laundry.
Which would you choose and how would you alter it.

1.)1953 Congoleum Ad



2.)1954 LHJ.

Comments

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

#1 - airy, elegant, and fun all round!

[benji.livejournal.com]

The second one is well laid out and practical and seems like a decent place to get the job done. However that first one, hnnng that view! Looks like the perfect place for doing anything but work heh. Though I am not too sure about that oven with a round window. Looks like a washing machine. I would have to change that.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

I'll take the kitchen-laundry and replace the laundry with the view!

[shortsweetcynic.livejournal.com]

#1, although that oven with the round window is very strange-looking and I'm sure I'd burn countless dinners not paying attention to anything but the view. :)

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

I'd go with #2. It's well laid out and would be a lot nicer to cook in than #1. I'd prefer that there was a wall between the kitchen and laundry sides, though.

#1 has a great view for the dining area, but dang, there's just about zero counter space and storage. That window above the stove would probably need daily cleaning, too.

[memnet.livejournal.com]

Not crazy about either one but the view in #1 is so good I'd go with #1.

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

#1 because: location, location, location! (I bet that view would cost mega-bucks now. Sigh.) I'd also get rid of the metal thing with the round window (stove? washing machine?) because (a) creepy and (b) more of that gorgeous view!

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

It's a combo oven-front loading washing machine.

[corridor7f.livejournal.com]

#1 - Beachfront view, open and simple, love the floor and the starfish on the wall.

[kittymink.livejournal.com]

#1

I love the first one! It needs more counterspace and a new oven

The second one is cute, I would afraid I'd be getting food smells in my laundry though. Maybe put the laundry elsewhere in the house and have a bigger kitchen with an eating area.

[tamara-rose.livejournal.com]

#1, no question!

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

I don't care how lousy the kitchen is with the clothes washer-oven combo thingy, it's impossible to get past that view in #1.

[dandyads]

I like both of these, though I would change out the flooring to wood or tile or something. I guess I would give the edge to the top one because living by the water with all those windows... heaven. And am I seeing things or is that a gap between the cabinets and the floor? That just seems like a cleaning nightmare.

eta - also I think that's a space age oven, not a washing machine

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Kitchen number one, by far! I love the dinette set - it looks so comfortable and the teal blue with matching glasses is great. I love the pale pink zigzagging pattern on the floor and the view outside is spectacular and makes me feel like I'm in some wonderful place.

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

And I bet there's a great dining room just around the corner of that wall with a 180 degree view of the water!

[twillery.livejournal.com]

#1, absolutely--I love the floor, the happy chairs, and view, view, view!

[mellzie-1963.livejournal.com]

Number one, but like others have mentioned, I'd lose the oven.
(It has a face. Bug-eyed, mustachioed, and mouth agape. Creepy!)

[benbenberi.livejournal.com]

#1 - I'd update the appliances, keep everything else exactly the way it is!