56 — count ’em 56 — vintage St. Charles kitchen cabinets, spotted for sale where all the best stuff is. Are you a super fan? You know where that is. Oh so pretty vintage St. Charles kitchen cabinets: Dream Chiffon Yellow paint color… and pretty little decorative glass front cabinets up top. These musta cost a pretty penny back in the day. Mega thanks to reader Lisa for this tip!
Okay, so where’s all the Best Stuff?
All the Best Stuff’s in St. Louis, of course!
These were for sale for $5,600.
If you had it to scrape together, I think that’s a fabulous price.
$100 per cabinet.
From my story 18 colors for 1960s St. Charles kitchen cabinets
And remember: St. Charles is / was the creme de la creme.
Above: That’s the nubbly finish that we saw on steel kitchen cabinets after they’d been popularized a while. I am presuming: That’s embossing. Meaning, the steel is pressed into this design by a plate under high heat and high pressure.
I am also pretty sure, this embossed finish was created to address the problem of “fingerprints” on shiny flat steel.
Note, my original-finish vintage Genevas have plenty of fingerprints. But, I am quite adept at ignoring “the problem.”
Howdy hudee, what is THAT going on behind these cabinets? That wallpaper scene. J’taime!
I don’t quite understand the whole story. But these belong to Laura, a longtime reader, who took these out of her kitchen and replaced them with NEW St. Charles kitchen cabinets when they were available once again in the 2000s. I will see if I can get a story on her new kitchen. Meanwhile, she says that she is using some of these vintage cabinets in her weekend cabin and will send photos when that’s done.
Meanwhile, it seems all 56 of these mello yellow glories sold pretty darned fast. Who got them? Congrats! Are you a lurker? Declare thyself and we shall heap thee with praise and adoration!
Thanks, Laura, for permission to feature the photos — we are so happy that these found a happy home. And thanks again to Lisa for this tip! Keep ’em coming, dear readers!
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