"Janet Baraclough" > wrote in message
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>> >You r.f.c-ers got kitchen color coordinated "STUFF"???
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> Of course I do, doesn't everyone?
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> I still have a few leftovers from my 1960's pale blue, orange and
> stainless steel phase. For you younger posters, you have to understand
> orange and stainless steel were uber-trendy then.

I'm working on getting my kitchen stainless steel and orange Everything
old is new again

I also (still) have
> some purple and lime green stuff from the same era, donated by my mother
> who said they co-ordinated well with orange. But I knew she was just
> trying to offload some lime green china that came with her second
> husband from his first wife.
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> In the 70's it was hard to get orange stuff any more but blue was
> easy. Kept going on the blue . Course we've broken most of the various
> blue china sets now but I've still got one piece from nearly all of
> them.
>
> In 1982 we moved to a house with red kitchen worktops and I made a
> half-hearted attempt at a red stuff phase. Then I made some blue kitchen
> curtains and reverted. Our new nextdoor neighbour owned the biggest
> china/kitchen/tableware shop in town and used to ring me up when he had
> an oddment, end of range sale with blue stuff in it then give me a
> special rate. Never whole sets of anything. We needed lots, because in
> the 60's and 70's I cooked for large numbers of people all at once. And
> I'm proud to say, they all ate off a (different) blue plate.
>
> 6 years ago we moved here and made a new kitchen; stainless steel and
> oak. Initially I painted the walls and ceiling violet purple to
> co-ordinate with the mountain view through the window but that was not a
> good look indoors. Now it's cream and black; with a big red rug from
> the last house. I had just given the new kitchen some deep blue bargain
> stoneware when it occurred to me that red went much better with the new
> kitchen colours and the rug. Luckily I had a start on red from 1982
> including old red aprons made from the red nursery curtains from the
> 70's. I lined the pantry shelves with some red strawberry pattern
> plastic and made some red checked tablecloths and I buy red teatowels
> and napkins and placemats. To go with all the blue ones.
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> Now I'm in a kind of red, cream and blue phase, with (minor) black
> and (extensive) stainless steel....plus those last remnants of purple
> and lime, one very longlasting pair of orange-handled scissors. . I tell
> you, every last bit of it is co-ordinated to something or other. Or it
> did once.
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> Janet.
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