Thread Number: 51041
Entire Ktichen " Antique, vintage kitchen cabinets, stove and dishwasher - $3000 (OBO)" |
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Post# 733705   2/8/2014 at 12:22 (3,700 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia )   |   | |
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Post# 733752 , Reply# 1   2/8/2014 at 14:17 (3,700 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )   |   | |
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Georgeous!!! |
Post# 733796 , Reply# 2   2/8/2014 at 16:31 (3,700 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Those are exactly the Youngstown cabinets my mother had in her house for so many years, and I can tell you, they weren't such a much.
Rust was a problem, and so was disintegrating hardware. The latter problem was particularly problematic, inasmuch as the hinges and catches were proprietary, with no spares available after Youngstown went belly-up. The T-edging on the cabinet doors kept working loose into the bargain. The dishwasher was retired almost immediately after my parents bought the place; its performance was not acceptable. My mother was accustomed to the performance of her existing Lady Kenmore, which I had bought her, and that went in place of the YK dishwasher. If you are a careful person, a meticulous housekeeper, have repair skills and don't live in the Southeast's humidity, this kitchen might be okay. In Atlanta, GA, and on The Appliance Killer's watch, it was a disaster. For part of the time my mother owned her YK kitchen, I had St. Charles, and there was no comparison. The paint jobs alone were so different you couldn't believe it. |
Post# 733811 , Reply# 3   2/8/2014 at 18:11 (3,700 days old) by robinsondm (Upstate NY)   |   | |
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Post# 733816 , Reply# 4   2/8/2014 at 18:50 (3,700 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia )   |   | |
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Post# 733830 , Reply# 5   2/8/2014 at 19:28 (3,700 days old) by cuffs054 (MONTICELLO, GA)   |   | |
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Is that the 30 inch DW? |
Post# 733832 , Reply# 6   2/8/2014 at 19:39 (3,700 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Post# 734264 , Reply# 8   2/10/2014 at 16:02 (3,698 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR)   |   | |
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Every time I see one of the Frigidaire flair stoves (or equivalent) with a stainless steel oven I wonder what they are like to clean. Some seem as shiny as they were new and others seem a little discolored. What are these like to clean? Do they have removable panels that make clean up easier?
I had a friend years ago who had one but she didn't cook much so hers were always shiny. |
Post# 734318 , Reply# 9   2/10/2014 at 19:05 (3,698 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Mom's Youngstown Kitchen dated from 1962, some years before she and Dad bought the house. Her cabinets were laminate-front; the bodies were steel.
The T-edging was used on Youngstown cabinets with laminate doors. The doors were not metal; they were MDF faced with laminate, and the T-edging trimmed the edges. It was an arrangement doomed to failure, and fail it did. My St. Charles cabinets were "C"-Line cabinets in all-metal, but St. Charles did make cabinets faced in both wood and laminate. When they did, they always self-edged the doors and drawer fronts, meaning that a strip of veneer or laminate trimmed the edge; St. Charles did not use T-edging. |