I’ve yielded to all the commenters who said I should go ahead and paint my old 1950s kitchen cabinets rather than labor to strip them to bare veneer and varnish them. (See, now if I don’t like the result, it’s your<\/i> fault.) <\/p>\n
As I contemplate what colors might go interestingly with pink sparkly formica countertops and faux copper, it occurs to me that the 1950s simply weren’t about good taste. In fact, the whole era was all the more tasteless because it envisioned itself as being so very, very tasteful. Young householders who’d trudged their way through the drear of the Depression and the deprivations of World War II were ready so see the world through pink — or aqua — colored glasses, and all around them, in their optimism, they envisioned, and created, the sleek, clean, flawless lines and pure, glowing colors of the “space age.”<\/p>\n
Everybody was scared sh*tless the Russkies were going to blow them to vapor. But other than that, they had a lot to look forward to. They were all The Jetsons.<\/p>\n
I think angst makes for better decor.<\/p>\n
In any case, yielding to tasteless exuberance, I’ve tentatively decided on a kitchen color scheme of two tones of pink (which together make the formerly screaming countertops look subtle and subdued), white, black and (ulp) chartreuse.<\/p>\n
But don’t worry. I have a girlfriend coming over tomorrow morning to try to talk me out of it. <\/p>\n
Maybe I’ll give up the chartreuse and go with ecru instead. But damnit, the pinks stay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve yielded to all the commenters who said I should go ahead and paint my old 1950s kitchen cabinets rather than labor to strip them to bare veneer and varnish them. (See, now if I don’t like the result, it’s your fault.) As I contemplate what colors might go interestingly with pink sparkly formica countertops and faux copper, it occurs to me that the 1950s simply weren’t about good taste. In fact, the whole era was all the more tasteless because it envisioned itself as being so very, very tasteful. Young householders who’d trudged their way through the drear of…<\/p>\n