Oldest kitchen?

still got original 60s kitchen, but want a new one. All I can say is thank heavens I've not got an 80s one I'm wanting to replace, at least it will only have been the one layout of money

my aunt can beat you all she lives at banstead surrey ,and her fridge runs on gas,she has one of those green cookers ,everything is 1940's ,not a bit of modern day fittings at all.nothing electric ,everythingworks by hand or by gas., her living room has a old fashiioned fire/with cooking stove .needs blacking every so often.you can boil water in the side bit...all her home is 1940's .everything is recycled.was amazed when we visited her for the first time. she is one of my mums birth family.

Wow! moggie57 that must have been amazing to see.

I am sure it is still possible to buy really good kitchen equipment but it isn't easy. I have a completely useless cake mixer from Lidl because I couldn't afford a Kenwood.

Your white Hygena with aluminium strips made me chuckle callgirl

You can get new doors and worktops fitted if the basic units are still in reasonable condition Lesley

moggie a National Heritage!

I wish I'd waited and paid extra for a Kenwood, Grammaretto, mine's OK and a known make but it's definitely not a Kenwood.

The lovely new kitchen we fitted in our new-to-us house in about 1974 was the light blue Hygena formica with the aluminium strips.

I even bought a Kenwood chef Callistemon at Oxfam (when they still sold electrical goods) but it got very hot on first use and smelled as though it was about to catch fire, so I returned it.

Does this take you back? It isn't mine but could have been. I found it on t'internet.

They still do those swing bins

I had a large Kenwood Chef years ago but gave it away when the DC left home, something I regret.

Moggie57 the National Trust might be interested in that kitchen! There’s a similar-sounding one in the Tenement House in Glasgow.
peoplemakeglasgow.com/things-to-do/museums-galleries/the-tenement-house

Our kitchen was refurbished in 1997, but, I do have a Kenwood Chefette (sp?). that is over 40 years old, and still going strong(ish).
It will probably take umbrage and fade away now.

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Grammaretto, that photo does ring a bell alright! This is the kitchen that I, thankfully, got rid of in 2017. The photos are from Christmas 2007.

I lived in a rental house when I moved to New Zealand for very much longer than I had ever intended. I have since moved to a far nicer house with a delightful modern kitchen, complete with a full-length lighted pantry, corner cupboards with a lazy Susan in one and a splendid mobile quadruple rack in the other, a dishwasher, a sizeable sink, double oven, separate hob, efficient over-hob extractor, attractive tiled floor with under-floor heating and loads of cupboard space.

The house where I spent six years before the move towards the end of last year had a very small kitchen that was probably constructed in the 1950s or 1960s. The cupboards were not proper kitchen units but simply wooden cupboards – without adjustable shelves – built to fit the space. The cooker was rusting and I did manage to persuade the landlord to replace it – with cheapest model on the market. The extractor was a great heavy fan in a hole in the wall with no cover that terrified the life out of me every time I cleaned it. The flooring was badly damaged vinyl that was almost impossible to keep clean.

Given that I have spent a very large part of my life writing cookbooks, this travesty was not really a comfortable place to be.