I am not crazy about all those different colors.
It is funny to look at it from a 2010 perspective.
I was just discussing those stoves over the past weekend with another realtor and how we almost never see them any more. I used to see them some in the early '90s, but most have been renovated out by now. I think that is where DeLorean got his ideas for the car in the '80s, lol...

Friends just got rid of that stove, plus another set of friends still have a similar design. They are workhorses. My aunts kitchen (1967) has turquoise appliances and today's version of a glass mosaic backsplash.

I loved Bewitched, when I was little. The kitchen was great...and I thought it would be so cool to be able to clean it in fast motion! LOL

The living room (the mid-60s version) was wonderful, the first Darrin was the best IMHO, and Aunt Clara was my favorite visiting relative :)

I think it also shows how kitchens were more functional/acceptable than a pretty showpiece. I think of that all the time, BEFORE HGTV started messing with our minds on how things are supposed to look. My house growing up wasn't matchy-matchy, it was functional. TV placed on an endtable in the corner with a doily on top. The fat recliner that was comfy and huge (and pink, but .... ). Our fridge in our kitchen was around the corner... left more room for a small kitchen table. I never noticed how hard that was... it just was. The same house that had only one bathroom for family and guests alike. I am not sure I see a style in the Bewitched pictures as much as I see things just put together to create storage, clean dishes and cook food. I kinda miss that, in this world of searching for outlet covers to match backsplash tile.

Annettacm- I am so glad you said that! I sometimes think I'm the only one who dreams of a kitchen with a vinyl floor and new white appliances :)

I have a limited budget and function has to come first. I live in the country, where everyone is constantly tracking in dirt, mud or snow and not everyone takes their shoes off before coming into the kitchen. I love wood floors, but they're just not practical. A beautiful vinyl that looks like wood is functional and pretty.

As for less bathrooms (although two is nice) and non-matching furniture, I think you also have a point. There's a certain charm from flea market/estate sale pieces that you just don't get with matching sets of furniture. While I like there to be some overall design theme (eclectic, but not mishmash) I do miss the cozy rooms of the past.

While I'd love a bigger kitchen, which would include the baquette dining table and a couple of upholstered chairs by a woodstove, I want a separate living room. That's where the fireplace, TV and overstuffed couch and chairs will be. A living room for living...which includes family, friends and pets :)

My rich aunt had a range and oven like that.

I loved the lift-up oven doors. The pull-out range on the other hand, was a hip-bone mangling safety hazard.

Thanks for posting those. They are great. I see a tray storage cabinet that I could use and I like the nice big window! I think I will keep my fridge though.

Is that a grill on top of a brick fireplace? I see the hood in one of the shots on the website. That is really interesting.

So the electric cooktop slides out?

And...is that polished black granite I see on the pass-through counter b/w the kitchen & DR?

My "not rich" aunt had a range like that!! Her house was the only one I ever saw with one. Her house was very traditional but she had that range and heavily shellaced wide plank pine floors in her kitchen when everyone else seemed to have linoleum on their kitchen floors.

Biochem- Thanks for the link. The "Practical Magic" kitchen is lovely and has so many charming details. Their herb garden was one of the first potager style gardens, that I remember seeing in a movie. I haven't seen "It's Complicated" yet. Thanks again :)

I love it!

We watch "The Middle" on ABC Wed night's with Patricia Heaton, and they have avocado green appliances. On the former HBO series "Six Feet Under" the family Victorian house has all green appliances, including the DW.

Thank you for sharing biochem!

I was just thinking about the days when appliances lasted more than 4 to 6 years. Did you all happen to notice that harvest Gold Refrigerators seemed to never die? Long long after all the sixties & seventies stoves bit the dust and long after all the avocado refrigerators went to their graveâ¦the ole harvest gold refrigerators could still be found. I mean there are probably a few still out there. Those things seemed to hold up for at least twenty five years or more. What was it about the harvest gold refrigerator?
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One thing to remember is that this house set has been dressed and redressed and redressed again, and it has been in many, many productions. It's not at all inconceivable that part of it was installed for one thing, and part for another, and no one really cared if the two sides matched. I'm pretty sure that the tile and cooktop/grill on the fireplace were put there to disguise it, not to be "logical". Sets often pull apart like a dollhouse so that they can set up shots at different angles. I'd be surprised if the counter were granite, just because they rarely used "luxury" materials, plus because it looks movable and they wouldn't want to make it heavy. It could easily be enamel painted to look like granite.

In L.A. in the '60's there were plenty of the things Biochem was commenting on: Snazzy, space age appliances, bottom freezers (they've been around longer than that!), etc. Open shelves, yes. The mismatched cabinets and wallpaper that dosen't match the tile would have been fixed with a coat of paint at the very least, however. A single, tight design scheme was de rigeur, especially for the up and coming executive's home. That's why I think the decor is more about how the color temperature looks to the camera in each angle, more than anything it was trying to say about the characters' home.

I grew up with a "Harvest Gold" fridge and I think the reason they lasted longer than the avocado color in the avocado appliances was just plain ugly. The hgs blended in better.

I don't think that is a grill over the brick. It could be just a tray... In the other pic, there is a toaster oven or so it seems.

I went to the site and it said some of these pictures are colorized, so that may make a difference in how it looks, too.

Yes, I remember those ranges. The cooktop recesses back into the body of the range so that it is out of the way when not in use. I remember the metallic squeal of the cooktop being extended out on my M-in-law's range - it hurt your teeth to hear it!

I cannot imagine that the brick fireplace with the toaster oven and grill on top is really supposed to be a fireplace. Has anyone seen anything like this in a kitchen? I agree that it probably was just something they had lying around that fit the spot.

Or a camera location. :)

Glad you all enjoyed it! :)

Interesting that many of you remember those ranges, and I have never seen one.
I must have visited the wrong houses, LOL!

Julia did say it was colorized, that might be the 2-color wallpaper problem. I couldn't figure out that fireplace either.

And Buehl, I too took a long hard look at that black counter! It looks SO much like stone, yet it can't be. Plastic???

Any good set design crew can make plywood look like whatever the set needs. I've seen them turn MDF into rusted steel and gunite into natural rocks.

Good point, Plllog, but the fact that they appear to by trying to imitate black granite is what's interesting...

Some people have been opining that granite is a fad and/or is no longer "in style"....but here we see it in a kitchen from the '60s....just like the bottom freezers, open shelves, and multicolored cabinets! They've all been around for a long time!

Buehl, I don't really know what was happening in other parts of the country, but in the design spheres of L.A. in the '60's there was a lot of marble going in for master bathroom counters, and a lot of granite, especially black granite, being used for fireplaces/hearths and bars. Kitchen counters were still more likely to be (really nice) tile as it was considered more functional. Stone slabs were smaller then, and a lot of the high end houses still had live-in maids, and the kitchen was considered a functional area. Kitchens were pretty small, and just beginning to be opened up to adjoining rooms, especially family rooms, which were usually additions. Often, a pass through with a counter would be the first step. The counter could be granite, Formica or wood. A lot of serving counters at the time were made of back painted glass, as well, but marble was rare. That was for antiques and bathrooms. But, yeah, it might wall have been meant to look like black granite. A young couple anywhere in the country probably wouldn't have put the money for granite counters into a kitchen, but they could easily have had that one piece between the two rooms. Especially since the set decorators were in L.A. That serving counter is in the dining room as much as in the kitchen,