Wow. That looks just like the stove I had in my first apartment as a junior in college. The whole kitchen was turguoise. Just, wow.

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Are those super jumbo Oreo-type cookies in the container on your counter? Did you make them?

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Marisa, you're right, electric ranges are a pain when it comes to burners, but great for baking. They now make them with gas burners and electric ovens - for a premium, of course. However, I once lived with one that had the most incredible looooooow setting. I could do the MFK Fisher scrambled eggs on it. Butter the pan (I used a small Corning Ware skillet), beat the eggs and season them, put them in the pan and put it on the burner set to what I think was called WARM, and then I would proceed to do something else for 10 minutes or so. Return, give the pan a stir, and go off for another 10 minutes, and the eggs would be done. Large, incredibly tender pieces of egg, like eating a savory custard rather than the plastic curds so often found in restaurants.

BTW, the ancient and deeply fancy Hotel Negresco in Nice has at least one bathroom with turquoise fixtures - although it's turquoise glitter. That range is probably worth something.

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Though I can see why that stovetop might be frustrating (inability to reach the back burners easily), I have to say that the vintage color is phenomenal!

My favorite thing in my kitchen is easily the stove. In fact, when we looked at the house for the first time, I knew we had to make an offer on the place based on the stove and the stove alone. It is old, yes, but the gas is perfect for any dish you might cook and the oven temperatures, surprisingly, are right on. The salamander is a dream come true. Seriously, I never thought I would own a salamander. I don't know how we got so lucky! (Although, in retrospect, the seller's real estate agent did say that if the stove was a problem, they could negotiate. Which leads me to believe that other people who looked at the house didn't think as highly of the appliance as we did.)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dk10/102614419/in/set-72157604016400272/

Now, as for what I hate, that's easy: the hideous pink "marble" wallpaper!

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Well, I love the color of that stove! I have a brand-new ceramic-top stove and while it's easy to clean and the oven is good, I still can't wait to replace it with a gas cooktop with electric oven. There's no control with electric burners; there's no "high" or "low," just "on" and "off" ("low" just means it's on less). Hate it.

Best part of the kitchen: a big bookcase for my cookbooks, and lots of counter space!

Here's a photo of the shelves:

http://kittbo.blogspot.com/2008/01/kitchen-shelves-completed.html

Kitt
http://www.kittalog.com

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Oh, Marisa! My kitchen has a turquoise electric cooktop AND wall oven! The formica is yellow, with tan and turquoise squiggy lines. The cabinets were hand made. There are some kinda neat drawers in two of the cabinets. but, all in all, it needs to be seriously updated!

Did I mention the yellow and tan floor? The yellow and turquoise tiles?

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This may be a dumb question, but why don't you replace the stove? A brand new basic electric stove can be had rather cheaply (as low as $200, maybe $500 for one with decently reliable temperature and a timer and window oven). Is that turquoise one just a strange size or something?

I hate a great many things about my kitchen, and it's very new in comparison--the house was built in 2000. The cabinets are cheap cheap cheap and the shelves actually sag under the weight of my dishes. Eight years old and they're starting to fall apart in other ways, as well. Gotta love "builder's grade"!

It's a sort of L-shaped kitchen and in the corner of the L, there are filler-strips where there ought to be a cabinet. There's not a lazy susan, not even a hard-to-reach blind corner cabinet (oh, what I would give for one of those!). Just several cubic feet of completely unreachable void that occaisionally emits ants.

I'm not thrilled with the layout--there is an island, but it's placement sort of traps you at the stove with the narrow side of the island next to you, so you really have no room to spread out.

I've been dreaming of the day I could renovate this kitchen from about 2 days after we moved in. At the rate of deterioration of our cabinets, we're not far off!

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Kristi, I have one of those "secret chamber" cabinets, too. It irks me as wasted space, but I can live with it for now. If ever I redo the cabinets, though, there will definitely be a lazy susan or something similar going in there.

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Oh my god! This is the perfect question for me. Let me explain my tiny, attic kitchen. Image a room with about 4x3 feet of floor space, with countertops under fully slanted ceiling on each side. One counter has the sink smack in the middle. To do dishes, you either have to lean in and hunch over to avoid hitting your head, or stand way far out with your arms stretched all the way out. On the other side is a tiny counter and the stove. As far as I can tell, there is no ventilation whatsoever. When I boil water, the entire ceiling is covered in a foot of steam, and condensation runs down the ceiling onto the counters.

But, wait, you ask, where is the fridge? Turn around, leave the kitchen, walk down the hallway, past the bathroom, past the bedroom, into a a sort of nook. There it is! Yup, I have to carry everything I'm going to cook across the apartment.

I was assured by the landlords that the last tenants had no problems with the kitchen set-up. All I can say is, they must have lived off take-out!

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I have a built-in gen-air unit form the early 80's. Now normally, an electric stainless steel range sounds good, right? Not when it's been scorched so many times that anything that falls to the metal sticks and stays stuck till' the steel wool comes out... it's impossible to keep clean. And, the previous owners decided a grell unit for the left bank was better than a second set of eyes, so I only have two.

I also keep a thermostat in the oven to verify it's at the temperature I've loosely turned it to.

I long for the day when I scratch the money together to completely rip out my lovely pressed-board and oak cabinets, the wine red laminate countertops, and the sunflower yellow walls...

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your stove/oven combo is gorgeous!

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It reminds me of my Grand Mothers kitchen, except that hers was PINK. I loved that!

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