Kitchen Collection

Decorating With Vintage Kitchen Collection

If you want to add color and personality to your kitchen and to your table there are many vintage kitchen collection that will fulfill your design vision. Open shelving or glass fronted cabinets are great places to display collectibles in your kitchen. Even a builder's kitchen can be inexpensively transformed with collectibles.

Maybe a sweet 1930s vintage kitchen warms your heart. Blue Willow dishes have been produced for more than 200 years. Blue Willow dishes have been popular for generations in homes, restaurants and diners. Cobalt blue glassware, also highly collectible, complements Blue Willow well.

Luray dishes will add beautiful pastels to your kitchen's color scheme. Yellow ware bowls, with their substantial heft and earthy colors, are the perfect accessory for a Colonial period kitchen.

Figural cookie jars are a popular collectible and what could be better in the kitchen? Vintage utensils can add visual interest when displayed in your kitchen. Brightly colored vintage dish towels and tablecloths can create a rotating display in your kitchen. Finish off your kitchen with a vintage scatter rug or two. A painted floorcloth or small linoleum rug will work in a 1930s or 1940s style kitchen. Antique shops and online sites are good places to hunt for vintage kitchen collection.
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Vintage Kitchen Collectibles Help Warm Up Today's Commercial Style Kitchens

Even though folks are spending less time in the kitchen, interestingly enough, there is a renewed interest in acquiring vintage cookware, baking dishes, range sets and other kitchen items. It seems that people are falling in love with kitchen treasures of the past. And surprisingly though "stay at home" moms rarely identify with homemaker's of yesterday, they still like to be surrounded by some of grandma's kitchen accessories. In fact women (and men) who work outside the home , also enjoy having some of nana's kitchenwares sitting atop granite counters or alongside stainless steel appliances, computers, T.V.'s. and microwaves.

So what's all the fuss about buying kitchen collectibles that will hardly be used? The casual buyer may buy a few vintage kitchen wares for decoration. While homeowners buy kitchen collectibles for show, professional chefs are also buying these items. Seasoned cooks who know their way around restaurant kitchens are actually using these items.

Are kitchen collection going to be a thing of the past? There still is plenty of quality vintage housewares fortunately still in circulation. C. Dianne Zweig is the author of Hot Kitchen & Home Collectibles of the 30s, 40s, 50s and Hot Cottage Collectibles for Vintage Style Homes. You can find Dianne’s fabulous retro and vintage kitchen, home and cottage collectibles at The Collinsville Antiques Company of New Hartford, CT, a 22,000 feet antique emporium with an in-house retro café. By C. Dianne Zweig - EzineArticles.com