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Definitely 60's: Yellows were more pastel and fresh vegetables were unheard of in the 1950's...
...and nobody had ever heard of a Wok before the mid-60's.

The dishwasher, wok, linoleum floor, tiki-ish-head (on top of the cupboard) all say 60s to me.

Beige cupboards, Pre-Columbian-inspired head and terra cotta jugs, baskets for the veggies, that toaster ... I voted 60s as in late 60s but could be early 70s too.

This speaks of early to mid-70s to me, especially with that brown wall and wok on the stovetop.

Can anyone tell what that white framed thing is that's in the nook to the left of the cabinets? For some reason or other, I guessed 80s, but I realized my mistake, as anyone at that time probably would have torn out a gold kitchen as if they found out someone buried a million dollars back there and had an hour to claim it.

i'm going to say 80s because of the colour scheme and the brass items around the place. i was born in the 80s and i can remember kitchens like this when i was a bambini.

KTG, I think that white thing in the corner is a toaster oven.

KTG- I thought the "white framed thing" was a bread box with a slanted door front that opens up. I could be wrong.

The fridge was only available in the mid-late 50s. The frosted birch countertops also say late 50s - at the very most very, very early 60s. I'll say 1960. Yes, lets say /- 1960, since the aesthetic is late 50s blossoming into the flowery 1960s.

My first foray into design magazines was getting a pile of House Beautiful and House & Garden along with women's magazines from a friend of my mother's.

They were all circa 1971-1974, and I distinctly remember features on Chinese cooking using exactly the same sort of equipment as found in this kitchen; there was some famous Chinese female food writer/chef at the time who was popularizing it.

So I am tempted to go against group wisdom (which generally wins these things) and vote for the '70s (very early) as opposed to '60s. Hmmm....

early '60s, the ethnic touch moved to the kitchen

I say 70s. This looks like the home where I grew up in the 1980s, but we didn't have the money to refurbish.

I think the color palette is more '70s than '60s. The accessories, especially the wok and the Asian head seem more recently post-hippie than current hippie. The cabinetry also seems post-60s. Wasn't "health food" big in the '70s, while the '60s were about canned food? The fresh fruits seem more '70s.

Ill say 1960's like 64. and that white thing above the stove is a portable broiler/ rotisserie thing I think.

I went with 50's based on the metal cabinetry, but I think many folks made good points about the other items in the room! I was thinking Bohemian artist's 50's New York apt...

I'm guessing 1960s since my kitchen (built in the '60s and never remodeled) is that exact shade. My countertops and backsplash are the same yellow marbled formica as the cabinet fronts.

I guess I thought there was a small chance the white thing was a small tv but the other answers make more sense. I do emphatically NOT know the source, but some of this photo looks a little embellished by hand/drawn/rendered. It might just be the quality or the age, but I'll make an additional guess this is from an advertisement for an appliance.

I said '70s because this looks like magazines my mom has kept since then.

I have to say 70's too. The dishwasher wasn't a prevalent feature in most kitchens until the 1970's.

Regardless of when it's from, I feel sorry for the poor bugger who was forced to cook jammed into that little alcove with those shelves looming so close and just at the right height to konk your head on.

Hmmm...I'm thinking either late 60s or early 70s for this one.

Looks like the GE wallhung refrigerator manufactured in the mid-50s -- exactly like the one in the house I grew up in! We had a dumb babysitter once that we didn't like and we told her we didn't have a fridge -- she never figured it out (nor was she asked to babysit again)

70's.

The appliances look to date from the late '50s to early '60s. But the wok, fresh veggies, decorations and the color scheme all scream early '70s to me. I'm gonna say '70s, but I suppose this could have been the kitchen of some particularly cuisine-forward individual in the late '60s.

If it's not the 70s, I'm going to eat my entire collection of design books. This soooo reaks of my mother's kitchen. Garlic and onions in wire baskets - check. Wok - check. Brass mortar and pestle - yup. Beans in glass jars - aha. Lots o herbs n spices on display. Yep. Ethnic pots. Yaha. The toaster has that nice 70s square edge to it. The oven and bench look a little 60s to me coz of the curves but the brown feel of the lino is more 70s to me.

I think people are making too much of the presence of fresh vegetables. This is a design shot and anything goes in order to improve the look of the area. It doesn't matter what people actually ate.

The sink fixtures look like late 60's or 70's to me. The shapes of the cabinet handles and sink also make me think 70's so that's what I'm guessing.

OK, two people have mentioned the brief career of the fridge people, couldn't have been 70s (or even mid 60s) or later.

Are they going to reveal the answer? I still say it's from the 70's.

I'm thinking very late '60s. viewing the answer now...

defo 60's.

Its the first time I've guessed correctly. Horrible kitchen like a lot of '70s stuff.

1970's, like me.

I'm going bold with the thought that this might be a trick question, and guessing around 1949, so 40's. But I won't be surprised to learn that's wrong!

I'm not good at this so far but I base my guess on the fact that Harvest Gold was the color of appliances in the late 70's early 80's so that's my guess.

As far as I can recall, the color of appliances was pink or turquoise in the 50's, followed by avocado green in the 60's, then Harvest Gold in the 70's, Almond White in the 80's to 90's and then back to white for awhile and now stainless steel since around the turn of the century. Of course now you can buy appliances in any color Red, Blue, Orange, or Yellow but it seems to me that white has always been the standard throughout all the decades.