mid nineties: bathtubs, showers, bathroom styles, and kitchen furniture, appliances, and styles

[smallbrownfrog]

I'm writing a scene set in a mid-nineties neighborhood similar to the ones the Dursley's lived in

Comments

[sushidog]

There's likely to be a shower over the bath, which is likely to be fitted rather than a free-standing claw-footed tub

[starry_diadem]

Stand mixers have been around for years and years, though. I still have my mothers Kenwood Chef, which is a glory of 1970s "harvest gold and brown". It's cast metal and weighs a ton.

[sollersuk]

In the 1970s I looked at the stand mixers at the Ideal Home Exhibition sitting around waiting to be washed, shuddered and got a Bamix, which is washed by giving it a whir in a mug of water. It was reconditioned (actually upgraded - they sent us back a new model) in the 1980s and it's still going strong.

[starry_diadem]

I love mine, but it's a heavy brute and cleaning it can be a pain.

[lothy]

My mother still has her Kenwood Chef which is probably from around the same era, though it's white plastic rather than metal.

I like it so much I've been looking at modern Kenwood Chefs on Amazon - which seem to have not changed all that much over the decades. I'll probably get myself one at some point.

[starry_diadem]

I wouldn't be without mine. Mum's was their top of the range one, I think, and it's in perfect condition. I hate the colour, but I have a handy cover for it when it's not being used, so I don't have to look at it much.

If anything happened to it I'd get another. Although I'll admit to being seduced by how pretty KitchenAids are!

[persevero]

I've had my Kenwood Chef since 1979; it's made bread at least once a week and umpteen cakes, and (apart from a new gearbox after a disastrous period of making my own peanut butter) has never had a problem. White metal with a white plastic bowl.

[mrs_redboots]

They would also have had a microwave oven.

Stand mixers have been around for years - they were rendered obsolete by the food processor!

[sushidog]

I hadn't realised they were common in the UK, I guess I'm the magimix generation!

[rikibeth]

Your food processors must be very different from the ones I know. I wouldn't use mine to mix cookie dough or cake batter, and while some people think they can use them to knead bread, I don't think they're well suited, and I'd still rather use a mixer for whipping cream or egg whites.

Food processors are for chopping and shredding and rendering things into crumbs. Mixers... mix. How do yours do the same thing?

[mrs_redboots]

They have different attachments for different things; mine also has a juicer attachment as well as a citrus juicer and a blender.