Oldest kitchen?

I'm surprised the antiques roadshow haven't been round to view mine.
I think it was probably done in the late 60s or early 70s by the council.

Its had various bodge jobs done on it over the years, and I'm considering a new one (bodge job, not kitchen!)

Get off with you morethan2
I remember in our first house changing the kitchen to light blue formica and wood effect worktops.

It was very smart. DH did it all himself.

My kitchen was put in by the previous house owners in 1986. I moved here 29 years ago tomorrow, 31 January 1991. I replaced the ceramic hob with a second hand one about 10 years ago, and have just replaced the built-in oven when the original finally needed too many repairs to be worthwhile. The boiler is still going, with a yearly service, 34 years on!

I’m so happy to join this thread because I didn’t want to start one that made me sound rather smug........my new kitchen is being fitted as we speak. Our old one was fitted in the early 80 before we bought the house. At our last consultation with wren I remembered that I used to work for hygena back In the late sixties. All the kitchens were the same as the new ones on display. Lots of midnight blue, yellow and white. Then came the pine/wood affect like our old kitchen. Just goes to show how fashionable and design just come and go in a big circle. Ps fingers crossed ? all goes smoothly for our new kitchen. This time next week we should be home and dry. YEHA

Gt auntie's range wasn't quite like the one in the picture. I don't think the house had ever been changed but although it would have been interesting as a museum, when she died, her DD just got a clearance company in and sold the house. She must have hated it.
We have one of the 1950s pantries which we inherited in our previous house. We use it as a tool cupboard but I imagine that back in the 1950s it would have been the smart kitchen unit.

Gram, not quite that range but they did have an open fire in the living room that had an oven at the side. Never saw it used but probably Nan had at some point. The house was originally her fathers, my Gramph bought it off him after he and Nan had been married about ten years.

In these days of increasing anti-waste, anti-consumerism, maybe we should feel rather pleased with ourselves.

yes I think so too. I felt very satisfied that I was able to have the broken cupboard and drawer repaired. The door fronts are solid wood and fine. They are so much better quality than the ones you see now in the shops, You can spend a fortune of course. My friend's son builds kitchens for rich people and for their yachts etc. He talks in telephone number figures - really. The very rich don't even ask him what it will cost!

In these days of increasing anti-waste, anti-consumerism, maybe we should feel rather pleased with ourselves.

I honestly do think so, Witzend. I hate waste of any kind. And DH, being a true Yorkshireman, is never going to complain about that.

Your husband sounds like mine aprilrose Anything I want to update he tells me has a “good ten or fifteen years left”. What I want to know is how he makes these calculations as the amount of time he calculates is always the same. Supposedly I’m the one with dyslexia but something doesn’t add up

Mine is about 40 years old. Getting rather tatty but OH thinks we should never get rid of anything until it falls apart. I Know its age because of the style and colour and make. The company ( all be it a good one) went out of business over 20 years ago.

We did up our kitchen in 1990, just before my first son was born, and I’ve redid bits and pieces but it does look rather dated. I went for fuscia pink with everything, as MR D showed no interest so I went with my favourite colour at the time. my son’s as a consequence hate the kitchen.

I forgot to mention, last year my dh was invited to look round his grandparents old home. He was astonished to see that the current occupiers still had the same Aga that his GP’s had had, shortly after WW2!

We have just replaced our kitchen which was 23years old, but the best of the old units have been given a face lift and refitted into our utility room to provide extra storage space for all the cleaning utensils and wash powder, with the best bits of the old worktop used to make a couple of shelves and a surface for folding up laundry out of the tumble dryer.

The new kitchen took 5weeks to fit in total, when the old kitchen wall tiles were removed they left the plasterwork in a bit of a mess, and it took a week for our local builder to arrive and re-skim the surface, then a few days more for it to dry out before any cabinets could be fitted. The final finishing touch of having new blinds fitted to the kitchen window took place yesterday, so we can now say that it’s totally finished for good!

Witzend I think we should pat ourselves on the back and tell ourselves we're saving the planet.

I was tempted to paint ours Bossyrossy, it's lighter than oak but I do like the grain of the wood.

Mind you, on Saturday, when I win loadsa money on the Premium bonds, I may order a new kitchen.

Oh goodness, Grammaretto that takes me back to when I was a little girl. My mum got so fed up of 'blackleading' the range that she had it taken out and bought a nice Canon gas stove.

justnoneed I think your nan must be my gt aunt.
Her house was like a museum. Built in 1912 and she moved in when she married and nothing had been changed.
The back parlour had an upright range, like the picture, - probably very modern at the time - and behind that the kitchen with state of the art gas cooker plus an original Belfast sink. It was always freezing. Admittedly I don't think she cooked much. She was thin like a stick insect but was almost 100 when she died. A healthy life.

Our oak kitchen is about thirty years old. It was top quality when we had it done and about five years ago we had a granite worktop and new sink and taps installed. My dilemma is, should we have it painted to bring it up to date? However the oak is very attractive with nice graining and I worry that if I had it painted, wood would soon be back in fashion.

My units have been in two kitchens, they moved with us from previous house. Firstly fitted in council house (which when we moved in had one cupboard and a bit of worktop. We bought some cheap cupboards to start with and then replaced them in about 1986. We moved to this house in 1990 and brought the whole lot with us to replace the one few bits here. It is still going strong, although various bits are looking a bit worn. Have freestanding fridge, freezer and cooker so all have been replaced as and when needed and the cupboards have been rearranged once. Bought originally from MFI.
My Nan's kitchen was one of the oldest I'd ever used. No sink, that was in separate scullery area, a large thick stone work area (with space under which was always cool. The old larder cupboards, with the pull down flap - she had three of those in various places. Larder with a stone shelf to keep stuff cool.

Some even older than mine, then!
In these days of increasing anti-waste, anti-consumerism, maybe we should feel rather pleased with ourselves.

Not my kitchen but kitchen of the 'other grandma' was installed around 1966, when she and her late DH bought the house from the builder.

Oh, and the floor is about the same age. We took up the Cushionfloor many years ago, sanded down and varnished the floorboards. They’d been replaced in the kitchen in the 1960s due to woodworm, but the front room and hall floorboards are the originals from 1850.

We converted an industrial building into a family home in 1980. We planned our own kitchen and still have it. It was and still is rather basic. I looked at getting new cupboards recently but balked at the price so a joiner has repaired some innards which were collapsing.
All the appliances have been replaced apart from the cooker and the tumble drier.

We moved into this house 38 years ago and the kitchen units would have been about 20 years old then. They’re plain, sturdy and joiner built, all we’ve done is paint them a few times and changed the knobs and we’re regularly asked if it’s a new kitchen.

The white goods have all been updated several times, of course, but the sink and taps are original. In fact the taps appeared in a book DGS3 was reading about plumbing this week, right at the bottom of the illustrations of types of taps, and captioned “old-fashioned taps”. So old-fashioned, in fact, that hipsters covet them!

The cupboards 1985 but everything else, worktops, tiles, floor, appliances etc have been updated.
The cupboards are in better condition than some of the newer things.