OT: kitchen update

Susan, what color of Zodiac did you get? We were looking at them as they aren't too bad in price.

Congrats on the lovely new vacation kitchen! haha

Nancy :0)

So glad it all worked out well and you love it. Vacationing ? In a kitchen ? lol

Actually, I went with 1" above standard counter height when we built in

1990, and still wish the designer hadn't talked us out of 2'. We went with the best cabinets we could (still love them) and made it easy to (eventually) upgrade to granite or soapstone.

Wish I could remember where I saw some great stepstools, the steps could fold under the seat.

Glad you love your new kitchen.

Cheryl

The step stool you're describing sounds like one I had when I was first married in 1958. It was a chrome stepstool with a covered in plastic padded seat and if I remember correctly 2 rubber covered steps that folded underneath. It was really kind of neat. You might want to look at someplace carrying retro stuff. I think I remember seeing such a thing in a catalog recently. I'll keep trying and maybe I'll remember who it was.

Lucille

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I had one just like it; it had a yellow plastic seat. I think I got it with S&H Green Stamps. The name, I believe, was something like Cosco.

Gillian

We got the smokey topaz color and it's gorgeous. I liked it because of the flecks of pink and golds and apricots that we picked up in the tile backsplash and wall paint. This was in the lower-cost Zodiaq line (level one) and apparently is a very popular choice right now. We had to wait an extra week because the distributor was "out".

Sue

Just for the fun of it I looked it up and guess what, it's still made by Cosco and Sears and several other places still carry it. Mine was blue and all I saw now was red and yellow, but it's still kind of neat.

Lucille

It is amazing that we have this terrific memory of brand names going back 40 plus years, but I go out and leave the shopping list on the kitchen counter!

Gillian

Tell me about it!

The stool I saw was in wood, quite elegant looking! Chrome would be nice too!

Cheryl

Was this what you saw?

here's another one: you can go looking for antiques and pay a fortune ;-) Best wishes, Ericka

And how!

Cheryl

I got a new Cosco stool for my mom's birthday (and sorta for me; eventually the kitchen is going to look like it was last remodelled in the '50s) because our real '50s wood stool is ..um.. on its last legs...

The style is identical to one our choir director sits on for rehearsals, which is ratty enough to be 50 years old or so, too, except that ours has bright red upholstery and plastic parts while the ancient one has cream-flecked-with-black seat and back and cream plastic bits. I Googled "Cosco stool" and found a really good deal on-line. "Some assembly required", but I know how to use a screwdriver, and that's all it took.

-- Emc^2

Are you my mother? We had the same one.

You'll still find it in mom's kitchen.

Us too, the seat and back were turquoise colored.