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04/07/08, 12:57 PM
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Old Fashioned Kitchen
My new Country Living Grainmill arrived last week!:banana02: It is beautiful and works even better than it looks. Anyway, it's the latest addition to my old fashioned kitchen. My house has a modern country style kitchen. It is open to a small combination dining/sitting area. Over the last several years, we have been turning the dining area into an old fashioned kitchen. The dining and sitting areas each have a bay window. Between those bay windows is my Flameview cookstove. This stove is amazing, it heats our 2000sq ft easily and is wonderful to cook on and bake in. Across from the cookstove is my Hoosier cabinet and grainmill. We "beefed up" an old log style nightstand for the grainmill. It has a big drawer for the extra parts for the mill and underneath is a space big enough for a bucket of grain. The walls and ceiling in those rooms are tongue and groove aspen, so the log cabinet fits right in. Next I want a sink with a pitcher pump, but haven't talked dh into that yet.
I love to see others' kitchens, so thought I'd share a few pics.
Here's the new mill next to the Hoosier. You can see the flour bin and sifter in it. My butter churns are stored on top when not being used.
Here's the Flameview.
On the right you can see the far side of one of the bay windows.
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04/07/08, 01:03 PM
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Gorgeous!!
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04/07/08, 01:04 PM
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Okay - now I'm green with envy.. 
You should be very proud, that's nice stuff you have there.
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04/07/08, 01:19 PM
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04/07/08, 01:41 PM
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Thanks, everyone. Angie, it has been a long process. I saved and saved, sold a bunch of stuff, and saved some more to be able to afford the Flameview last year. The Hoosier came from an auction about 3 years ago and needed some restoration. Been saving quite a while for the grainmill, but it wasn't near as costly as that stove was. It'll be another year or so (or longer, depending on the economy) before we add the next thing. It's so much fun, though. I spend more time in the old fashioned kitchen than the other one.
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04/07/08, 01:44 PM
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Why can I not see the pictures? I want to see the cookstove!!!
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04/07/08, 03:01 PM
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Absolutely gorgeous! I'm jealous Will your stove hold a fire all night like the Pioneer Maid?
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04/07/08, 03:13 PM
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I also love old fashioned kitchens. I have a hoosier cabinet in the middle of restoration but I don't have a wood stove. If and when I can afford one it will be a Waterford Stanley in green. I just love it. I love your walls and if the price of lumber would come down I would have some similar to yours.
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04/07/08, 03:20 PM
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Oh my, that's beautiful! We're tearing out our kitchen to build a new one sometime in the future and I so want to include a Hoosier cabinet. That stove is beyond sweet!
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04/07/08, 03:21 PM
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ok now I'm drooling over the keyboard. I LOVE your kitchen! I have the hoosier cabinet for one day but not the cookstove. I want a big old farm sink too.
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04/07/08, 03:21 PM
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Fae, we built the house in '91-92, but still doing finish work. Want to finish part of the upstairs with the aspen. Priced it and wow! it's going to be a while. I love the Stanley stoves, too, and really considered one. What sold us on the Flameview is the size of the firebox. We can put nice big logs in it, it's so nice after years of constantly splitting wood for our old Wherle cookstove.
NEOhiosmiths, don't know why you can't see the pics, the others seem to be able to. If you still can't see them, let me know and I can post the links to photobucket or email them.
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04/07/08, 03:29 PM
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All I can say is WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats on your new Kitchen
Debbie
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04/07/08, 03:53 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Morning Owl
Absolutely gorgeous! I'm jealous Will your stove hold a fire all night like the Pioneer Maid? |
We can bank the fire overnight and have live coals in the morning. But, to keep a good fire going all night, I get up and stoke it once or twice (have to get up for those nighttime necessities anyway). I stoked it 3 times a night when it was bitter cold this past winter, just because I'm a thermostat scrooge and don't like to let the furnace run. It was 30 below zero on many nights and the stove kept us toasty warm. 
The stove has a built in fan with adjustable speed that runs on a thermostat. There is a metal lip just above the stovetop and the fan pushes the air over the hot top of the stove. Also blows hot air out from around the firebox, etc. It blows warm air down our hallway to a back bedroom, bathroom and laundry room, which we've never been able to do with our old cookstove and box fans. Also, I've never had a cookstove that was so easy to keep an even temp in the oven for baking. Just love it!!
Our master bed and bath is upstairs and we put a Magic heat in the pipe. Upstairs stays very cozy, too.
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04/07/08, 04:00 PM
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Absolutely Beautiful!
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04/07/08, 04:05 PM
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Now that's what I call a kitchen.
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04/07/08, 04:17 PM
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Oh I love that hoosier. Do you use that flour bin? Is it messy or do you find it helpful? I've always wanted one of those but wondered if they're worth the money...
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04/07/08, 04:23 PM
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Your kitchen is beautiful!
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04/07/08, 05:18 PM
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Beautiful pictures. I'm curious about the stove. We've been looking at the Pioneer aid for some time now. I've never seen the Flame View. We have an old meal master wood cook stove that has seen better days and now we are shopping for a new one. I'm going to Google and see what I come up with.
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04/07/08, 05:39 PM
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I have a CL mill and just love it. I wanted one I could have for the rest of my life. It's a real workhorse.
LOVE your cookstove, BTW.
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04/07/08, 08:15 PM
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Oh, that's just beautiful!
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