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boomers like grandma's
growing up in a miltary family, we moved rather frequently, roughly every three years. coast to coast, class to class. in those early years, the concept of home was itself variable, but the concept of grandma was constant, permanent.
my paternal grandparents still live in the house that my then-young father moved out of. even today, it's a largely unaltered mid-century ranch: decades of resistance to change has created a time-capsule of cherished period ameneties.
personally, i have always adored her kitchen: polished copper splash plates to contrast bright turqouise formica counters that made everything my parents owned seem washed-out and boring. entire days of my youth were dedicated to a sublime form of counter-terrorism that involved tracing the boomerangs (boomers) in crayon.
i have always dreamt of having something just as flash. as atomic... as hip as grandma.
fortunately for me, formica has just announced that they have reissued the original boomer prints. i have no idea how much it will cost... but i can assure you, i am not above selling blood plasma to do it.
some example swatches from formica.com, and a snapshot of grannie's sink i took a year or two back:
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i'm voting for the grey with a stainless backsplash.
although the aqua with stainless is rockin too.
Posted by: k at January 10, 2006 01:42 PM