The Week Ahead: Balancing Acts and Riddles

by admin September 10, 2020

While this kitchen does have a vinyl floor the pattern is a vinyl rug, something that was very popular in the first decades of the 20th century. The date on this kitchen design is 1945. I'll give you this: they were long lasting and they did protect the floor underneath them to some extent. I recall that Big Mama had such rugs in her living room and dining area.

What I find interesting in this kitchen is the corner work station. It appears there's a wagon or something stored under there but it could also be a baking center or sewing area or desk. The dropped counter in the near left on the sink wall...Not sure about the purpose of that. I lived in a house that had a dropped counter like that at one side of the kitchen and I never did understand what it was for.

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