new curtains for the kitchen

11 years ago

Found a pretty pair of vintage kitchen curtains yesterday at my friend's antique shop. I posted already on "Kitchens", but thought I'd share this pic here too. The curtains are clean, pressed, and no stains; someone took good care of them.

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YogaLady1948
11 years ago
WOW! That was a lucky find, they look beautiful. Seems like the kitty likes them also;)
lydia1959
11 years ago
Love the colors and the graphics! Great find!
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In the photo of the walls, curtains and chair the chair seems more mauve than orange as in the picture of the chair by itself. Could you take another photo please where the colors are truer if they weren't in the first mentioned photo? If the chairs are more orange then I'm not so sure you couldn't add other elements to bring these colors together to make it all work. The print in the fabric and the style of chairs fit in my brain. I have the same shopping style as you do. I buy what I like, which includes many different styles, and find a way to make it all work. And it can work as long as you are brave. It doesn't have to look how you think others will like it. If you like it and think it works and your family isn't giving you an evil eye, than it's right! I'm not into following trends as you might guess by my nickname. I've always been different and always loved being that way even when others have tried to change me. Luckily I'm pretty strong willed in that respect and didn't let them. Well other than the one time when I was ten and wanted a pair of eye glasses in black with a tortoise shell ring around the lense. The clerk hated them and thought they were all wrong for me. I let him talk my Mom into agreeing. Something sooo unlike my Mom. We were from that same mold when it came to having our own styles. Me nor my Mom ever let that happen again. I wound up with the ugliest pair of glasses in a style that was as old as I was, clear frames with silvery blue etched metal accents. YUCK FIFTIES FRAMES.... Similar Yummy sixties style. Mine were all black accept for the a bit of the tortoise around the lense. So the moral of this story is, If you like the chairs, curtains you'll find a way to make them work. The chairs would be easy to slipcover too.
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glenda_al
11 years ago
Kitty seems to be enjoying!
bengardening
11 years ago
I think my DM had those same curtains at one time.
hounds_x_two
11 years ago
You posted more pics on the "kitchens" forum. Cute curtains, great kitchen, and I do love your beadboard!
susanjf_gw
11 years ago
really nice...my friend just took hers down to wash and they fell apart...they were antique aprons! so now is looking for some...she looked at somwe of the vintage yardage sites but wow, they're really expensive...
jannie
11 years ago
Love the kitty! You did good getting those curtains.
Granlan_TX
11 years ago
Great Find!! I remember your pretty kitchen and what a beautiful cat and picture!
schoolhouse_gw
Original Author
11 years ago
Thanks all.

susan - you might mention Etsy's website to your friend. Just click on "Vintage" then type in "vintage kitchen curtains". I'd been browsing them for awhile but didn't find anything that I really liked and felt comfortable ordering online without seeing them first. Some were pricey with shipp/hand added. It's fun to look at them all though. I paid $16 for mine at the antique shop.
jel48
11 years ago
Pretty!
juellie1962
11 years ago
Love those! What year do you suppose they're from? They seem somewhat familiar; I grew up in the 60's and 70's....are they older than that?
Marilyn Sue McClintock
11 years ago
Your curtains look really nice in your kitchen. In the late '50's I bought some similar fabric and made curtains for the kitchen where we lived and they were such tall windows. So I would say your curtains are from around there or early '60's.

I like your kitty cat too.

Sue
schoolhouse_gw
Original Author
11 years ago
Not sure about the year the curtains were made, but whoever did so had a steady hand at the sewing machine. Such nice stitches. Yes, the graphics are fun. What first caught my eye was the splash of orange here and there, just what my kitchen needed. This morning I was studying the graphics and one is a little cottage with a porch, some tall shrubbery near it and a flower garden of some sort in front. Among the others, what appears to be a Christmas ornament? They will make washing dishes fun from now on.

This is funny. I got an email from my friend who owns the antique shop, she said "So YOU are the lady who took two hours to pick out a pair of curtains!" Evidently the guy who was working that day mentioned it. Well, there were two pair, I had to make sure. lol

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