I have been saving this photo on my desktop for ages and I have no idea where I found it. Later today I'll search for the photo source. Isn't this a wonderful country kitchen? Don't you want to pull up a chair and have a cup of coffee? The drop-leaf table is all set up for that and acts as a kitchen island as well. I am calling the blue and white checked table covering oil cloth. Can you still buy that? It lasted forever and was so much easier to wipe down than to launder and iron a tablecloth. I grew up in the era when nothing was used rough dried but had to be starched and ironed. That was the only household task my mother despised. xo
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Inherited, ca. 1982, a similarly scaled CABINET:door/shelves/height, handmade during WWII, from my grandmother.
Two were made, both for storing canning, found in her earth floored basement. One was too rotted, the other in my office, placed atop a table, for books/files.
On a door, in pencil, a list of canned items and quantity.
Have a similar dropleaf table, original dark stain, will look much better painted this color, nice find, thank you. It's my table, "To Ruin", on purpose, plants overwintered on it every year.
Great find, this kitchen. Glad you shared.
Garden & Be Well, Tara
I haven't seen oil cloth in years but I have used flannel backed plastic cloths that held up well.
This is a great kitchen. I have a small kitchen with a drop-leaf table that I sometimes use for extra workspace. You can still buy oil cloth at oilcloth.com. I have purchased quite a lot of it for an annual get-together I host in the summer.
Kathy, Thank you SO much. I'm sure you've made many of us very happy. I can't wait to check out oilcloth.com I hope your annual get-together is a huge success. xo, Rosemary
Linda Sand -- Thanks for that tip. Kathy commented we can go to oilcloth.com and be transported way back. xo, Rosemary
Tara Dillard -- When I first started in real estate over 30 years ago I saw many basements with dirt floors and canning cupboards. I'm glad you salvaged one from your grandmother. Have fun painting your drop-leaf table. I'm so glad you like this kitchen I found. Thanks from stopping by the cottage.
xo, Rosemary
This is a wonderful kitchen. It bears the marks of much use, and I like that. I have fond memories of my grandmothers large oil-cloth-covered kitchen table. We sat together at the table when I was a little girl, and she'd do her prep work for meals. I, too, am happy to hear that it's still available. My mother used it to line shelves--it was so easy to wipe down and lasted forever.
Pam -- Having some oil cloth in your home now will bring back your fond memories with your grandmother every day. I need to line a few shelves and the area under my kitchen sink. I had a hose leak recently and the staining bothers. I am glad there is a place to order oil cloth too. xo, Rosemary
I love this post! I Tuesday was always ironing day. I collect antique and vintage tablecloths and the checked ones are my favorites.
It is a wonderful kitchen. I love the fact that it feels so open without feeling cavernous, as if you were in an airplane hangar, like so many of these kitchens-on-steroids one sees today. I realize those are designed for people who hire caterers, so they make sense from that perspective. The bigger the kitchen, the more steps the cook has to make. I love how the large window and the view brings the outdoors inside.
I have seen oilcloth for sale, Rosemary, but for the life of me, I cannot remember where. It may have been on a British website.
I have an old pine cabinet in my front hallway that my late mother rescued from my uncle's uncle's house in Sacramento, California. He used it to store jars of vegetables from his garden that he pickled. She had it restored in the 1970's, and the wood has a lovely, warm patina.
I'm not too fond of ironing either. I really have to be in the mood. Rosemary, I have ton of old and antique linens that need to be sorted through, organized and ironed - a daunting task. I so love the look of clean, starched and ironed linens.
My favorite type of kitchen.I could move right in! Thanks,as always ,Rosemary. You find the best rooms.xp
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