I think it's the gingham. Totally not my style either, but it is charming!

I love it but it wouldn't look right in my house. So charming!

I love it, too! Especially the tile. And that simple range hood. Very cottage chic.

Love it. So crisp and somehow Anne of Green Gables-ish, picnic-basket-y (gingham!). Clearly the runner is for the staging...and look! A dish rack!

Raee_gw, I didn't even notice how awkward the table is until you pointed it out. It would be impossible to get around in there. Things like that and Lavender Lass' post with the branch chandelier goes to show you how much staging goes on in these pics. Most of these things are not practical in working kitchens or houses. That is something I have to remind myself of all the time while looking through these photos. So pretty to look at but a nightmare in real life!

Very cute and cozy looking but that table would have to go in about 3 seconds. Looks like a well-loved grandmother's kitchen where you could sit and talk for hours.

I love the look, except for that pot hanger which would have to go. The table looks good, but there's no room for it and there aren't even chairs which would further crowd the center. Yay for a visible dish rack!!

mrspete, those clocks are easy to find. I've been eyeing that kind for a while but haven't yet committed. They can be found by searching hanging clocks, station clocks and two-sided clocks.

It's fun to find a photo of a kitchen you love even though it's not your style or what you are planning to do in your own kitchen. Usually I find a photo of a kitchen with some sort of great architectural feature that I could never have or recreate in my kitchen. Here's something that I bookmarked the other day that I thought was adorable, that reminds me of the photo you posted:

Vintage-Inspired Inglewood Cottage · More Info

I love the vintage stove, the windows and the accessories. But I would hate to try to keep that top shelf dusted.

I love it! It's friendly and cheerful. Gingham is so cute...and at least the table is round, so you won't be hurting yourself, when you bump into it! LOL

Isn't it Fern Michaels, who always says you should have red in a kitchen?

There are so many great kitchens in the world! Looking at these gets me thinking about how the style of the home has such an influence on what will look great. While I would have LOVED a modern kitchen, our vintage refresh fits with our home much better and I really do love it. Kind of funny how we adapt to our homes and that its not always us making our homes adapt to us!

I agree, huruta. And your kitchen is a lovely example. There are many ways to say it like "listen to the house" and "follow the bones of the house". I think if we do that, we end up with kitchens that aesthetically fit into our homes better and that this can take us in directions we didn't anticipate when we started.

If you took out the table, the pot rack, the curtain valance and the scalloped wood valance over the open shelves, I might like it!

Like it! I could even work around the table, but the pot rack would have to go.

I love the way the open shelves step back the lower they go.

The kitchens - both of them - are cute, not to my taste but cute. If you could turn the pot rack into a lighting fixture I'd be good.

edible, that's also an adorable kitchen. I would love to have a stove exactly like that. Overall, the kitchen probably wouldn't work in my house, but it really strikes a nostalgic chord for me, reminiscent of kitchens in summer cottages at the beach. Stuff wasn't purposely styled as "beach cottage" but so many were built in the 20s and 30s and looked so much like this. My cats would love that upper shelf.

I love the personality shown in both of the posted kitchens! There is a part of me that is looking for something a little kitschy to add to our remodel, but I haven't found the right item, yet.

It's pleasant enough to look at but I wouldn't want to cook in it. I'd go crazy having to roll up the picnic blanket and herd the chickens out of the way every time I wanted to slice something.

Google "train station clock" and you'll find lots of them for sale.