Tasteful friends, please rate this russian kitchen

Struggling to hold on to a tiny glimmer of beauty with those tattered counter covers.

I think those are onions, but I'm not sure. Anyway, 2 ptomains out of 10.

You mean that Russian kitchen from 1930?

Modern Russian homes do not look like this, people.

The Kremlin pic on the white cabinet door ties it all together.

[quote] Modern Russian homes do not look like this, people.

Yes, they do. The staging bowl of onions are fresh so I doubt the pic was from 1930.

I don't mind it. It looks functional and authentic. I could easily work with it.

It is tidy, looks functional, and is beautiful in its own way.

Oh my God I would slit my wrists if that was my kitchen!

The trash can above the stove looks difficult to reach.

I think that's a kerosene or propane tank for the stove.

There’s a Brezhnev poster so it’s 1970s.

Just six families had to share!

Cute! IKEA?

That's a poster for the rock group "Brezhnev", R11

So it’s even more recent.

[quote]Modern Russian homes do not look like this, people.

Are you kidding? There are American kitchens that look like that, “people.”

Meanwhile yes it’s shabby but it’s clearly heavily used. I’ll bet a lot of delicious food has been cooked there. Sorry OP.

Christ, the way they lived for the so-called Greater Good. Meanwhile all the top Communist party members lived almost as if they were well-off in the West.

Same in China.

It's not an accident that they eat all kinds of animals, including dogs and cats, under communism. The sweetest and friendliest of those dogs and cats were the first to go because they were easy slaughter.

Communism creates barbarians.

Many potatoes.

It's hideous, just like teh nasty Russian food that likely comes from it!

R19 thinks cooking is clicking on the Uber Eats tile.

Krokodil lab? What a sty.

It can't be Russian if there's no wallpaper.

Russians carry Hep C and TB, just say no to that food.

@r13, That IKEA kitchen is 14,090 Rubles, so about 150 bucks American? Not bad ;-)

If Trump stays in power ALL AMERICAN KITCHENS WILL LOOK LIKE THIS .

It lacks vodka

Communism creates filth. Just like the ones who hacked our election last time, and doubtless, this time.

Communism is fucking disgusting.

Most Russian kitchens TODAY look very Ikea-like. Believe it or not, Russians have Ikea, as well as stores like Home Depot, too.

Little-known secret: half the shit Ikea sells is a Soviet design, just with modern color scheme. Flat-pack furniture was the norm in the SU, because it let them outsource its assembly to the buyers, and was easier to carry up 9 flights of stairs in a building with no (working) elevator. Look at old photos of 1970s East German homes... change the color scheme, and it's basically 21st-century Ikea.

Is this the kitchen of a dacha?

Poverty is so funny!

Russians are not known for their cleanliness.

Nice high ceilings

Loving the open plan layout with the gorgeous island. Would make it so easy to keep an eye on the kiddos in the snug on their PlayStation while I whip up a batch of my famous extra-yummers borscht!

IT'S NOT OPEN CONCEPT!!!! WE LIKE TO ENTERTAIN!!!

Is that owned by a lazy Russian troll who gets paid by the word?

It's the breakroom at an internet troll farm. Max capacity is 50 people.

Mama!

Whoever distressed the paint on the kitchen island did an amazing job. It’s totally convincing. To complete our shabby chic look, I’m just going to replace the knobs with something that sparkles and we’ll be all set.

Symbolic of the state of most of Russia.--biggest country in the world by landmass but contributes to less than 2% of the world economy. 2%!!!!!!

What a sucky country

A new coat of paint and a dishwasher would do wonders.

I actually love the blue wall color because I've painted my own kitchen in a very similar color. But I wouldn't eat or even touch anything at all in that filthy kitchen. NOPE. Even not with a tall glass of wodka to disinfect everything...

Looks much better than all the plastic shit kitchens people have nowadays that they barely use because they either eat out or have food delivered.

What is "tastefully rustic?"

Ohmigosh, ohmigosh, it’s shabby chic!

Poverty? Like your mother had her own kitchen!

I could live with it, but it needs a massive cleaning as well as fresh paint. I've traveled extensively throughout France and I've stayed in small village houses, as well as rustic homes in hamlets with similar kitchens.

All the invisible issues such as asbestos filled pipes, and uncontrollable mold from rotting wood pipes - a perfect food supply for more mold and fungus spreading and infecting everyone - is the most disturbing aspect of this photo. Combined with stubborn filth, germs such as Bacillus, Micrococcus, Pseudomonas, and Staphylococcus makes this little culinary nook a health hazard. Since the average floor has about 764 bacteria per square inch, I'd guess the floor in OP's pic has around 854,000 bacteria per square inch. Makes Rikers Island jail look positively homey.

Someone has a thing for oven paddles, amirite?

Looks like my first studio apartment in the tenderloin, San Francisco circa 1968. There was one electrical outlet in the kitchen area. To iron, I had to unplug the frig to use the pull down ironing board. as well as to use the hot plate. The counters had 20 years of contact paper.

And yet, I can still remember how deliriously happy I was to be young and gay and on my own in SF.

My friend Vlad told me to say I love this kitchen. I LOVE THIS KITCHEN.

Just from a visual sense I love it - it looks like the set for a film. "Commie-Block of the Damned" or "Attack of the Killer Babushka" or something.

Gosh, DL people, it's a photograph of a kitchen where poor people live.

Should we faint, die, or throw up?

[quote]Capitalism creates barbarians.

Fixed that for ya.

J'adore r53.

Here's another and this is current. One can identify a common design style.

I rate it "Condemned."

The distressed look is very trendy!

Rate it filthy.

I always thought the hot water heater hung on the wall was so charming. If it has an open flame, so much the better. I am less partial to my washables drip drying over the borscht.

Funniest thread in a long time!!

[quote] A new coat of paint and a dishwasher would do wonders.

There is a dishwasher. She’s just not in the picture.

I wish my kitchen was that clean.

Google'ing around a bit, this looks like a fairly middle of the road late-1980s (in 2020) Russian kitchen with original cabinets. Nothing special, but nothing particularly shocking, either. The sink is definitely on the small side & it really needs a dishwasher... but then again, you could say the same thing about most of the kitchens in New York City. At least Russians don't have showers and bath tubs in the middle of their kitchens (Google it, it's actually a real thing in New York).

Interestingly, Russians seem to overwhelmingly prefer (and have) big refrigerators, just like Americans (and unlike many Europeans, who seem to be perfectly content to make do with refrigerators only slightly larger than American college students regard as barely large enough to use in their dorm rooms.

I'm not sure what to make of this one... the door style screams "expensive 1960s-1970s US", but I can't even imagine someone putting in brand new cabinets like that NOW, so I'm guessing whomever had that kitchen done was probably a fairly high-ranking government official, back when having a kitchen like this MEANT you were a fairly high-ranking government official.

And, finally, a somewhat recently-remodeled khruschyovka kitchen that clearly came straight from Ikea. I'm not personally a fan of lime green, but I'd say she pulled it off well and did a nice job. Well, except for the curtain, which kind of messes up the whole sleek minimalist Ikea vibe by virtue of just being too busy and folksy.

Scabby chic.

Russtic.

Like Mama's Place - in the Mausoleum.

The floor has much more fond than any pot there ever did.

The tea made from the samovar and the plain water from the spigot are the same color. Pale brown.

There are 1,000 more just like it. In Chernobyl. (Yeah, it's in Ukraine, but the furnishings are from 1962 when Chernobyl was USSRish.)

When I lived in Japan, I had a kitchen that looked like this (and it was typical). My fridge was probably even smaller than the one in the photo. The kitchen in the photo looks like it has 4 burners; my apartment only had 2 burners. I had a drying rack over the sink. No oven.

Somehow, it was fine.

WHERE is the dishwasher/

I like that they all have high ceilings. Ceilings in American houses were typically 8 ft high until the recent american style of having random jagged peaked ceilings here & there, and impractical 2 story foyers.

I grew up poor & we had a tiny galley kitchen and I don’t think we had any matching plates or silverware. Our two sharp knives came from the gas station. The dishes were probably hand me downs from movie theaters or detergent boxes. I know that makes no sense to anyone under 60.

No range hood -- sorry, I can't.

The hanging dish towel pulleys probably streamline cleaning up after the meal.

I love the sight of the laptop with the DL front page and a newly started thread on Hunter Biden.

Whomever says that doesn't look like a current Russian kitchen has never been in the country outside Moscow. That's is exactly what the average peasant kitchen looks like...the same with Romania, or most any former eastern bloc country. The poverty is astounding.

"WHERE is the dishwasher?"

She was outside beating the laundry on a rock.

[quote] I love the sight of the laptop with the DL front page and a newly started thread on Hunter Biden.

R73 = 🤣🤣🤣

Needs more leftover borscht.

I like this one.

I'll take this one. It comes with a babushka.

What apple recipes were being made in that kitchen?

Polonium Infused Apple Surprise

[quote] Oh my God I would slit my wrists if that was my kitchen!

You'd have to stand up while you did it, R8.

It's demo day!

My old Aunt Sal always said she never baked a cake as good as the ones she would bake in her wood stove in the cabin.

They had well water and no running water. She had to heat water for doing dishes, washing, bathing, cleaning and laundry. People still talked about how great it was when they finally got electricity, but it was unreliable so people kept their kerosene lamps and candles. No telephones, of course.

Ozarks.

No, not the Clampetts. Although squirrel, raccoon and possum were on the menu at times. Sal would also keep her chicks and hens under the kitchen table, if the hunting dogs indicated a fox, weasel or raccoon was around. But her place was clean.

I can smell the cabbage cooking!!!!

Is paint hard to come by? They need a Хоум Депо, amiright Boris?

Big Sally sounds lovely, r85, but how could her place be clean with all that chicken shit under the table?

Not to mention the squirrels, possums, and raccoons.

Oilcloth is making a comeback I see!

I wish loincloths would.

“What a dump.”

How revolting.

It's nothing a bolt of felt and a sconce from a flea market can't fix. Total cost to spruce up the place: 1470.69 rubles.

There's no oven range hood. This kitchen doesn't seem up to code.