Retro cool for the kitchen

I found the site, Vintage Stoves by Stevan Thomas after browsing through some Stylehive links. This company takes old stoves from the late 1940s-50s and fully restores them to beyond their original glory by not only making the appliance functional again, but also giving them a spiffy new paint job.

If we lived in a 1950s-era bungalow and drank martinis after work and had money to extravagantly spend on a stove, I'd be all over one of these. Currently available restored stoves run between $4200 US to almost $9000 US (not including shipping).

Check out their gallery of recently sold stoves here, and others in their new homes here. These are a few of my favourites:

Their limited edition Satsuma Orange 36" Wedgewood


A 1951 Western Holly Continental 37


A 1951 O'Keefe and Merritt 850-G:


These stoves just seem to have so much more of a presence than our 1990s era Kenmore. ;)