A Vintage Kitchen

Hello and welcome to our vintage kitchen nestled in a terraced house in West Yorkshire, UK. As you'll see, pretty much everything that we have in this kitchen is freestanding and has been sourced from eBay, charity shops and just found everywhere. So to start we've got the kitchen surface here where we keep all of the cutlery in an old pencil box which we usually would be in a classroom. That's a bowl of pesto, we've been making wild garlic pesto lately and then we keep a lot of the fruit and veg out in the winter. There's a lovely old cabinet that I found on the street when 15 years ago the blue cabinet and someone was just letting go of it so I rescued it and it's traveled to France and Spain and back. The old piano was one of our neighbors they let us have that all we had to do was pay for it to move four days four doors down because we couldn't actually do it and we had to get removals in to do it. And yeah, we've decorated everything really with pictures that I've inherited or sourced and kept and all of the linens, they were my grandmother's or my mother's or John's mum's. That cabinet on the left was sourced from a charity shop and then all the shelves were made out of scaffold boards with cast iron brackets. And then we've got all of our books. that are related to the kitchen and kind of reference books downstairs and the mantelpiece and then on the shelves and the rest of the books are upstairs so it's kind of like a living area and kitchen area a lot of living happens in this space but it's also somewhere like anywhere in the room that we really want to feel inspired by everything that's in it for example a lot of A lot of these pictures are either by my grandmother or by my mum. For example, that one of the man leaning on the piano, my mum did that article in the 1970s and the embroidered piece with animals that my grandmother found at a jumble sale in the 1950s or 60s, I think. Thank And as you can see, you come straight into the kitchen off the street. So you come in and then the piano's on the right-hand side and there are our kids' artwork there hanging as well. It's really important for them, I think, to see their own work upon the on the walls as important as everything else you. and then yeah this is kind of the main work area which is that that cabinet below we found on eBay for 100 pounds and it fitted perfectly between that wall beside the fireplace and that cooker and actually bang in the middle of where that cabinet is now there used to be a wall which we knocked down and That, there's the blue cabinet again. As you can see, we've got quite a small fridge and then we've got a freezer downstairs. Luckily, we don't live in a hot country, so a lot of food can be left outside of the fridge without perishing. And we've got a Belfast sink, which my mum was aghast about because she was worried we'd break it. And yeah, it's a Hotpoint, is it a Hotpoint cooker? I'm not sure. It's kind of like the style of an AGA, but it's not an AGA. And we use that for everything, for boiling the kettle and for making toast under the grill. All of the ceramics I've collected over the years from charity shops or have been handed down to me by my mum. I love a good mug. I love jars. It's one of my many joys is to take things out of packets. Where we used to live, there was a wholesale place so we could get large quantities and pop them in the jars and everything just feels ordered. And then, yeah, this is kind of our scrapbook cabinet With pictures and poems and little scribbles from... Days gone by to remind us and this mantelpiece is my pride and joy that wax has been cultivated over eight years and woe betide anybody who tries to pick it off of the mantelpiece. So yeah that's our this is our little kitchen we've lived here for about eight years it says turn of the century early 19th century no late 19th century early 20th century I think it was It was built and it would have been built for the mill workers. There you have it. Thank you for being here.