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The breadmaker at least brings it into the 90's. I'm thinking some very OCD person lives here. But who am I to judge...I cook on a 1962 Frigidair Flair.

oh boo! I missed the now option... I need to pay more attention :P

A tough one. I'm going to guess sixties, just because I don't think someone who designed a kitchen this obsessively retro would line things up on the back of the stove like that. Also, no exhaust hood? So primitive.

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hum... I have to say 90's or now because of the espresso coffee maker! and bread machine.

Yeah, the appliances give it away. Has to be 90s or now. I'm going with the 90s.

The light bulbs seem very new.

OCD is right!

I think it's now, someone has a serious retro fetish! It's very cool and fun no matter when it is though. :)

Is that plastic fruit??

Hmm. The espresso maker is intriguing, I thought maybe 80's-90's, but didn't that design of espresso makers come out recently?

I'll guess now.

Trick Question? Lol, I got fooled at first... it's all in the details.

Now. Breadmaker.

Dishwasher front seems very now.

That table looks like a modern reproduction of a Saarinen and the recess lights also say "now".

number one thing I noticed was the photo quality. It doesn't have a washed out feel. the colors pop, and seem to glisten. Plus the whole feel is retro modern. Clean shades on the window, nice gadgets at the edges. Things lined up, and collected.

The turquoise is totally Miami Vice. I'm guessing late 80s/early 90s.

I saw this kitchen on flicker a while back. As I remember, the vintage cabinets came from some sort of an institutional kitchen and were in perfect, like new condition. The color is original.

I'm saying now because of the recessed lighting, bread-maker, espresso machine, photo quality, dishwasher front and the curved glass shelves over the sink.

now- the recessed lighting for me is the clincher. that and the photo quality.

now.

the imitation tulip tables were less clumsy in decades past than this one is.

I meant to say now -- the dishwasher gives it away.

To me, it looks like a 1950's kitchen that was modernized with a good sprucing up and a dose of technology (ala the espresso maker and bread machine). It's very cute and I love it, but its too kitsch for me to live in.

Definitely now...

1) breadmaker
2) coffeemaker
3) refrigerator and dishwasher with matching panels (matches cabinet)

Nice design if you like retro, which I do very much. BUT I would have chosen that wonderful 50ish pastel pink OR 70s avocado.

Recessed lighting: now.

i'm with art. the light fixtures appear to be new. especially the cans. apparently can lights have been around since the 1940s, but i think they used to be quite a bit bulkier.

Whoops, I missed the "now" option, too. Doh!

those are typical of metal cabinetry of 60th to 70th. With typical soft installation (closed space between top of the wall cabinets and ceiling). however it looks as it was recently redone, repainted and adapted to DW and more modern appliances. The toe-kick repainted black and what-not open shelves are dead give away for vintage cabinets made looks new or new cabinets build in vintage style.

oh, I missed the now option too! fun looking place though!

I guess 90s because of the pot lightings and size of the breadmaker - its too large compared to todays slimmer models.
I love the kettle.

Late 50's or very early 60's St. Charles kitchen. The black dishwasher panel is very 90's (early 90s and late 80s). A 90s take on the 80s take on the 50s.

Yep, ditton on the digital appliance far left, coffee maker on the far right. Things like the high-end looking metal blinds, the scale of the kitchen, and the re-invented color palette also make this look like a nouveau-retro kitchen.

I found the blog who's kitchen it is via a simple Google search... not going to spoil it by linking here though.

Fun! I was wrong and voted 60s :-)

My first house with my husband was an old farmhouse that had almost that exact kitchen. The cabinets are almost the same- and I had a turquoise countertop with glitter flakes in it! That was 5 years ago, and this picture really took me back. Boy, did I hate that kitchen.
I'm going to say this is someones idea of retro chic and go with now.

When I first saw this, I thought it was a modern photograph of an old kitchen, maintained by retro enthusiasts.

But, I just saw the dishwasher, with the custom blue panel on the front of it. And is that super tall cabinet on the far left the fridge? If it is, then the whole kitchen is definitely custom design now.

Otherwise, I stick with my original guess of 1960's, with slight upgrades and a few more modern touches (espresso machine, bread maker).

At first, I assumed now, but without any stainless steel appliances I voted for 1990's. Stainless steel is to this decade what harvest gold and avocado green were to the 1970's. Seems unlikely that a modern kitchen (even one playing retro) wouldn't have ANY stainless steel.

It looks very nicely done. I could never get used to that shade of blue first thing every morning, though.

If it was a 60s or 70s photo, the blinds would have been closed. The fact that they're open suggests that's it's Now.

here's a link to that bread machine....
http://shop.consumersearch.com/zojirushi_bbcc-x20_home_bakery_supreme_bread_maker/linkin_id-8028054/sf-1/pid-21318502/NM-30/ND-30/VA-5/OP-w15

....and that looks like the same Bosch dishwasher I have....not in turquoise though.


I guess now, but could very well be 90's.

Just for fun, here is a bad image of a 60s stainless kitchen.

http://www.usc-chi.com/images/06644385_K.jpg

That's so funny that you would post that steel kitchen, dn. I kept that same photo from wherever I first saw it, but for another reason than you probably did: I loved it.

As for the gleaming turquoise kitchen, I love that too. I suppose the breadmaker would be a pretty good clue,if one recognizes what it is in the the first place, which I didn't. I'm a little bit behind the curve, I guess. At any rate, at my place the toaster that toasts the bread on both sides at once (and pops it back up automatically) is my most modern appliance.

Anyway, I'd love to see this in the mornings.

Wha? It's Monday, already! 2:12pm! TELL US THE ANSWER!! I'm dyin' ovah heah.

LOL! I saw the breadmaker and thought 80's!!! Who uses a breadmaker anymore?

My parent's 1960's ranch house has the original yellow metal kitchen, with matching dishwasher and oven panels, and recessed lighting.

In my mind the hardware on the cabinets in this kitchen is what makes it seem more now, than anything else.

Now based on the espresso and the bread machine.
I like the color. Stainless steel appliances will soon become the avocado green of the 00's

Well our kitchen, which has not been re-done since the building was built in the 1960's, has those exact same cabinets, and the area that is supposed to be the dinning nook in our livingroom has one of those space-ship pull-down lamps. So I'm going with '60's.
(our kitchen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/13108435@N03/1356982494/in/set-72157601953721707/

That table is from CB2.

The light fixture and the ceiling vent over the stove are 60's, the appliance on the counter looks like a bread machine which would be 80's the can lights are the large incandesent variety which could have been 60's to 80's the stove is probably early 60's. The dishwaser looks 80's.With the table and chair from the 50's or 60's. I'd say it must the 80's because of the bread machine. Bob Stewart Columbia TN