How amazing, what a time capsule! You have to wonder how and why the house has been sitting there for 50+ years. Never used appliances! That has to be unheard of.

I love the "side by side" fridge & freezer, and those star shaped backs on the cabinet knobs. The shade of pink is actually quite pretty!

Oh, my. It's so, pink? Down to the clock sitting on the counter . . .

My favorites are the wall oven and the cooktop with remote control panel. They also sold cooktop/range hood pairs with the cooktop controls located on the range hood. Those pushbutton controls would never be allowed on an appliance today because they only require one action to turn on the burners.

It does boggle the mind how the kitchen could stand unused for so long -- even the current owner bought the home in 2010. The fridge is cool (no pun intended) --- no bending down.

There was a house several door down from my father-in-law's that had a beautiful vintage wall oven from the 50s. The house got flipped and I'm fairly sure the oven didn't make the cut.

I so want the light fixture.

Hah! A friend posted this on Facebook the other day & I thought of you all.

LOL - sure is pinko!

OK, as a MCM nut who loves vintage and doesn't even understand what the term "dated" means, I really want to see this. No photo. :( Dagnabit.

Funkycamper, click on the green "this" at the end of the orginal post. It's a link to a bunch of photos.

I'm "vintage" enough to remember when our second DW looked a whole lot like the one featured in that kitchen. (I was the first DW after Mom)

The original avocado green stove in my house had push button controls on the front. I think some of my neighbors haven't replaced theirs yet. I have had two new stoves since that one. The pink kitchen has many cool features.

PLEASE, Houzz, do something about the print on this site! I also could not find how to access the photos on this thread. The green is almost gray and the black so light they just blend together. I read a lot of forums and this is the most difficult to read I have ever encountered, for all the reasons posted on other threads.

It's great. This is a great shade of pink, I don't know why so many people hate it.

Curl, thanks for the instructions...I was wondering where the picture was, too!

Swizzle, lol!

My mom's 1956 kitchen had that GE control panel, but it was on the wall behind the cooktop. I do want that refrigerator!

Why did the guy replace just the dishwasher?

Look! The SOFFIT is tiled!

Wow! It doesn't even need to be dusted! I would love to know the story on it. Pam at retrorenovation would be all over that. I've sent her a link.

My parents redid their kitchen in 1957 -- not as high-end as this one (no dishwasher), and with a yellow scheme (yellow patterned counters, tile, and paint). Same pulls! Clear maple beefy ply cabs that my father built -- including some drawers. The stainless Westinghouse oven still worked like a champ 50 years later; the cooktop not so much, even with new electric elements,
Thanks for posting!

Pam at retrorenovation actually first published this story, back in 2010. The kitchen is so amazing it keeps popping up anew everywhere, and I am happy to see it again.

From this link, it looks like parts of it were still for sale in 2013, but it has all since been sold.
1962 GE time capsule kitchen

Our stove had the same push buttons! I can't get "There's a great big beautiful tomorrow, shining at the end of every day, there's a great big beautiful tomorrow, and tomorrow is just a dream away" out of my head!

I am in lust for that whole kitchen, especially that amazing fridge. I'd love to know the backstory on why nobody has ever lived in it. It's cute. I feel sorry for that unloved house.

Thanks for cluing me in on the link. I've been one saying there's nothing wrong with the current website's colors but, gosh, I may be wrong as I really couldn't see the link. Had a hard time finding it even when I was told to look for it. I wonder how many other links I've missed?

I am not sure why the story is recirculating again, was not everything sold years ago?

funkycamper,

Those refrigerators unfortunately did not work very well. I knew two people who had them and both had other refrigerators: one family used the wall fridge, but had given up on the freezer years before, the other family gave up on the fridge entirely and used it as kitchen cabinets.

My handyman father-in-law, the one with just enough knowledge and tools to be dangerous, had an undermount sink in a tile top very similar to this in his guest bath:

There was a bit of rust on the bottom of the sink near the drain. I told him how to remove the bowl and provided the tools, but the next time I visited, the tile top and bowl were curbside. We visited Habitat and for $150.00 and about 5 hours of my time I was able to make this Glacier White Corian top and ceramic bowl work:

Sad, but you do the best you can do with 82-year-olds going on 17.

@palimpsest - Oh, that's too bad. Well, wish another company who knows how to make a good, working fridge would make something similar.

@Joseph - Good save but sad to see the vintage sink/tile go.

I too would love to know the story of why the house sat unlived in for so long, but I'm sure it is a sad story. Perhaps a spouse that passed away right before moving in and the other could not bear to live in or sell the house. I have seen things like that happen but usually the house is abandoned somewhat, with no maintenance as the living spouse can't bear to look at or even think about the house. This house, based on the kitchen appears to have been maintained. Would love to see what Nathan did to the house.

I'm taking a Creative Nonfiction writing class and my father-in-law was my first subject. You can read my first assignment here. Adult themes and language.

mudhouse: Thanks so much. Not only do I not mind, I live for comments like that.

@Joseph, if you publish, I'd buy. I was laughing out loud and nodding my head because we all know someone with a little bit of Ned in him. I don't know how you intertwined humor with poignancy; I think that's a rare gift.

funkycamper:

Thanks, that's very flattering. You can read more of my technical and business stuff for free at www.countertopiq.com.

Joseph, to me, flattery is often something untrue and meant to manipulate someone. so, instead, it was a sincere compliment. :)