1950's kitchen sources

[1930artdeco]

I would like some sources/ideas for some things that I would like to add to my kitchen. I have a kitchen that has metal cabinets and a 1953 Gaffers and Sttler stove. I was thinking of putting some of the stainless steel sheets behind the stove to give the diner look. But where does one get them, I know they make the stuff. Also, I have the hole in the wall for the vent pipe for the original 1940's stove. Is there a way to install a range hood? A period hood (or at least looking) would be great to suck out the heat and fumes.

Thanks,

Mike

 

[dhermann1]

My first, second and third recommendations would all be www.retrorenovation.com . She's the best.

 

[tonyb]

This magazine's advertisers (see the "resources" tab on the website) might be of some help.

http://www.atomic-ranch.com/

It almost makes me nauseous to think of all the metal cabinets that got torn out and dumped into landfills or melted down and turned into Toyotas.

Back in the mid-1960s an uncle who did body-and-fender work painted our metal kitchen cabinets, which had been white, a tannish color. That was considered quite daring back then. A couple of years after that you would have had to paint 'em some Day-Glo color to turn a head.