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We had the cherry cabinets with stone countertops, travertine back splash. When our kitchen was rebuilt after the fire, we put in white cabinets, with quartz countertops, LED lighting, the microwave in the drawer, we added more cabinets in the kitchen where the desk use to be. We put in a deeper kitchen sink, added a built in trash compactor for recyclables.
We used brushed nickel for handles, lighting, we had oil rubbed bronze previously. There is a big difference in the kitchen. It’s a large kitchen but it feels even bigger.
20 years is a long time.
20 years separates the 1970s from the 1990s.
20 year old kitchens in the 1990s looked very dated.
1970s yellows, oranges, and greens were replaced granite and stainless.
Yet, today it feels like a 20 year old kitchen still looks current.
This may be the effects of getting old and out of touch with the world.
Are 20 year old granite countertops woefully outdated? Or still perfectly fashionable?
Do 15-20 year old Stainless Steel appliances look laughably dated or are they still current?
If so, I have never seen a design trend last thing long.
What about light oak cabinets and white appliances?
Specifically, how outdated is this style that was common 20 years ago?
Light oak colored floors and cabinets
White appliances
(Laminate) granite countertops
20 years ago my parents had a VERY nice, VERY upscale home built, it was exactly 20 years ago. Counters are laminate. Trim is all white. NO oak at all. Appliances were white though the fridge is now stainless, as is the MW. The cabinets are all white - and they look beautiful, still.
Brazilian Cherry floors that they put in about 13 years ago (which apparently EVERYONE did - I am over them myself).
Personally, I have never liked granite counters - I just find the composition to be, well, ugly. I do love quartz though, and solid surface as well. (Quartzite can be beautiful but is fraught with staining issues). There ARE some much nicer looking granite options today, thank goodness. And granite is STILL very popular. It's just the old speckled busy granite that is out of favor now.
Not sure why you would think that stainless appliances look dated. They are extremely popular.
Too many different pieces in all of that to call it a single "design trend". Some is outdated, some is definitely not.
Dunno. When I see stainless appliances, I just think "Titanic" or "iPod" or "OJ Trial"
Being in and out of houses of wildly varying price points is part of my job. Nearly all of them have stainless kitchen appliances regardless of price point and age of the kitchen.
My former spouse was a custom kitchen designer and the vast majority of the appliances that were chosen by his clients were stainless. We first met back in the late nineties when kitchen design was making the switch from being the pleasant utilitarian spaces of his grandfather's era (grandfather worked from Youngstown Kitchens until he started his own company in the early seventies) to The Most Important Room in the House. Up until the early aughts, black appliances were more of a thing with stainless coming up close behind; by the mid-aughts on it was pretty much all stainless with the occasional choice of a homeowner choosing to have the appliances save the range blend in with the cabinetry with panels (usually in a historic house). My ex's kitchen in the luxury townhouse that he had when we first met had black appliances and granite countertops, the latter being a major upgrade in the mid-nineties when he designed that space. The custom house that he built in 2005 after he sold the townhouse had all stainless high-end appliances.
Getting back to the kitchens that I'm seeing "out in the wild"....The ones that don't have stainless appliances are either on the far low end such as rentals, are homes that belong to those are in the fifty-plus age group and/or not interested in the latest and greatest in kitchen styles, are vintage/hip revival (think brightly colored refrigerators), or are super high end, with the latter having one of the newer finishes or enameled AGA or La Cornue-type ranges.
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High quality materials, tasteful design, impeccable craftsmanship never go out of style.
The reality is that most of us are not able to afford such luxuries. Hence we settle for "in style" and then have to go into debt every generation to replace what was really contemporary when it was installed.
Remember dark green 20 years ago? Tiles, granite, walls......
20 years is a long time.
20 years separates the 1970s from the 1990s.
20 year old kitchens in the 1990s looked very dated.
1970s yellows, oranges, and greens were replaced granite and stainless.
Yet, today it feels like a 20 year old kitchen still looks current.
This may be the effects of getting old and out of touch with the world.
Yep, you are correct in this statement: "This may be the effects of getting old and out of touch with the world."
Yep, you are correct in this statement: "This may be the effects of getting old and out of touch with the world."
Not really. Apparently, stainless steel and granite are still considered current, unlike avocado green kitchens in 1995.
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They are extremely popular.
