The Buttered Porch Bring the porch home, wherever you are.

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The Kitchen Gets the Good Light

A farmhouse kitchen on a wet October afternoon. Everything in it you can bring home is below.

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A green farmhouse kitchen in autumn light: a maple turning outside the windows, two cat tea towels on the rail, a yellow toaster on the counter, a stovetop coffee maker steaming on the range, a red bacon grease tin beside it and green glass shakers on the table.

The Kitchen Gets the Good Light

Looks like it came off your grandmother’s table

Pressed depression glass in that green, with SALT and PEPPER molded right into the sides. The estate-sale find, without the estate sale.

Shakers Depression-glass shakers, green Shop on Amazon

The color does half the decorating

Butter yellow with a chrome lever and a rounded shell, back when toasters were built to be looked at. Two slices, one dial, nothing to set up.

Toaster Retro two-slice toaster Shop on Amazon

Coffee worth standing at the stove for

Four minutes on a burner and you get small, black, espresso-strong cups, no filters and no pods anywhere in it. It gurgles when it is ready, which is the best sound in the kitchen.

Coffee maker Primula stovetop espresso maker Shop on Amazon

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