“Bungalow Kitchens”, by Jane Powell

Powell, Jane. Bungalow Kitchens. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 2000. Print.

I might have been giving a ‘meh’ impression about the last couple of books I’ve posted about, but not this one – I loved it!  I’m more and more impressed with Jane Powell and her books, dreadful puns notwithstanding.  This is the book that I hoped The New Bungalow Kitchen would be, not that I don’t enjoy that book a lot too.

Anyway, Jane Powell has done her usual thorough research and included lots of pictures of original or restored kitchens, along with her trademark “obsessive restoration” and “compromise” sidebars.  She makes a compelling argument for keeping or restoring an original kitchen when it is found in an old house.

The pictures, as usual, are the real selling point, showing how a vintage or retro kitchen can be perfectly usable.  I have to include one here, taken from the Amazon “look inside” feature: