Saturday, May 22, 2010

Consumer Escapes - Retro Decorating

We've been talking about renovating our kitchen for years. One element in our plan is to install a double oven. I find the planning itself to be an escape. The actual remodeling is painful. It takes longer than expected and costs more than planned.

Inspiration often comes from flipping through remodeling magazines. Although everything starts to look the same. Maybe if the appliance advertising was more like this classic from the 70's our kitchen would be done by now.

Come to think of it, my parent's house had a Thermodor oven when I was a kid. Hmm, wonder who was reading remodeling magazines back then?

2 comments:

  1. Half-baked pun no doubt heated feminist anger to the boiling point.

    They were right to be steamed, of course. Copywriter trying that now would be in hot water.

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  2. Or you could say, if you can't handle the heat stay out of the kitchen.

    The guy in the ad I recall as a character actor in tons of television shows and commercials.

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