You got a gem. Growing up, we had a Hoosier in our kitchen. Because we were poor, ours was made of some sort of cheaper wood and was white with decals on the doors. We had the flour bin/sifter on one side of the top part and cabinets on the other. When my mother could no longer take care of our home, she gave the Hoosier to me. I took it to a restoration shop and they did a wonderful job. I still had the flour bin/sifter and my porcelain top still pulled out for doing things on it. Making cookies and rolling pie dough was so easy on it because the porcelain tended to keep a cool temp. I am 76 now so my son has had the Hoosier for about 12 years now and he has it sitting in their dining room. Mine was white as it always was white. I even had the little porcelain pans with the glass lids that were for storing things in. Enjoy it, you did such a nice job fixing it up and it is worth some money. Good job.
I loved your story of your family Hoosier! My maternal grandmother had one also and I remember that piece so well! They just don’t make things like they used to. So nice that you gave your Hoosier to your son I’m sure they treasure it!💕
I was saying over and over “omg do not paint it, please please please do not paint that!” And I paint a lot of old furniture, but I also restore a lot too.
We have one of those cabinets that still has the flour sifter, found at Goodwill for $100. If you want to refinish the enamel top, use tractor paint for a like-new surface,
For the grinder add some felt pads to the two parts that touch the worktop to prevent damage. A cocktail cabinet come sideboard for the dining table is a great idea. Pull out bottle shelves added to the bottom cupboard (modern kitchen fitting) would maximise accessibility. My best friends mum had a mid century hoosier in the 60s. Gave her all the essential storage and workspace she needed to cook from scratch. Modern kitchens make us walk and clean a lot more than we need to.
🏵️Bless you! That's brilliant. Feel kinda stupid for not thinking of that myself😲. I inherited two meat grinders from my ♦️Grandma Ruby. One had never been used. They're so cool & industrial, but I'm a long time 🥑vegetarian. 💚 Bridget from Cali ☘️ (using my pal's YT acct)
@@teresacarle294 In Mexico we use it to make the dough (Masa) for tortilla but you can use it for any seed, my grandpa used to soak the seeds all night and they where ready in the morning 😊 I wish I have one 🇲🇽❤️👋
My grandmother had a hooshier. Your so lucky your mom found it. And i so remember the meat grinder from thanksgiving dinner prep. Love that you have such an old soul.
I lost one of these in the 70s. A guy told me he was going to restore it for me and he disappeared with it. Broke my heart. I had had it on layaway for months.😭😭😭
Yes, the metal piece is for the bottom drawer and was used as a bread keeper. I love my hoosier and keep all my baking/bread making products in ours. You did a great job!
If you didn't already know, the metal drawer with metal cover was designed to be mouse-proof. Mice were a problem in older homes back then, and the smell of fresh bread lured them to the Hoosier.
That metal tray looks like what they used to proof dough for bread before baking ...what an awesome find for sure....sooo much history and character 😊❣️👍
Yes, you're right, the bottom drawer is for the bread. It should be lined with tin, too, and have sliders for that top piece. The bottom cabinet part, usually, had a shelf with wire baskets in it to hold root vegetables...and there was, typically, a rack on the back of that cabinet door for jars, etc. I have one that still has the flour sifter in it. I have my big mixing bowl sitting right under it. It's very handy if you bake your own bread, which they did in those days. Well, you've seen images of those Hoosier Cabinets. So, you know exactly how they were set up and understand how they were used. I'm so glad you restored it and kept it in original condition. It's not only a valuable piece of history, it's beautiful, as well. Lovely. 💕
When I saw the video pop up in my notifications, a bar cart was literally the first thing to pop into my brain with what you could use it for. You could literally put a coffee maker, teas, hot chocolate, syrups, creamers, and everything else in there.
It looks like "Mado" cabinet used in France - Belgium, or similar cabinets used in the 50's in Europe. Greetings from Brussels from an Italian lady :-)
That looks wonderful! The wallpaper really adds a pop to it. I'm glad you kept it natural. It's beautiful!! All your vintage pieces look perfect on it. Well done!!
Yes, that metal piece with the holes is for the breadbox in bottom drawer/ BFF's mom had a Hoosier kitchen growing up & that is where they kept their bread for sure!
I can’t believe you found this for free! I paid $120 for mine in 2005. I repainted mine cream on the outside & pale green within. The bottom right side drawer was usually lined with tin for raising loaves of bread. I have considered having my porcelain top powder-coated to restore it. Have used in my apartment kitchen years ago and in my art studio (it’s favorite spot). Now in storage and I miss it!
If you look at the old advertisements, that metal drawer was always shown as a bread drawer. The Hoosier was a baking center so potatoes were never kept there.
Actually those cast iron meat grinders had multitude of interchangeable parts and attachments, they were like the Kitchen aid of their time. My mum inherited one from her grandmother and is still in full working order. She not only uses it to make sausages and mince, but also to process vegetables and fruit for jams and various preserves. Additionally it has attachments to make variety of pressed biscuits desighns. 🥰 the large sifter on the wall is actually moilin and is used to process fruit and soft vegetables in to puree and paste.
What a lucky find!!! Hoosiers were usually made with assorted woods of varying hues, so they were usually painted to make uniformity. To find one which was never painted is sort of rare, so I'm really glad you didn't alter it. I also have one which was never painted. It was in pretty sad shape, but my son restored it. The flourbin/sifter is missing, however, as is the lid for the bread keeper. As my kitchen is very small, I use it for necessary storage.
I got one that was painted white, so I spent a summer stripping it (later I saw several 1920's ads where the Hoosier was white, so maybe it was white originally). Also, I added legs and wheels to the bottom, as mine were missing. There are good supply companies online for Hoosiers. Now it's in my 1910 house kitchen, and a microwave fits into the open niche where you have the dishes displayed, a great way to 'hide' that essential kitchen appliance!
I'm so glad you kept it natural because you would probably regret painting it eventually and it would really make an amazing bar cart. Btw that meat grinder also works for nuts, I still have one of those in my kitched from my great grandma, it's in a really good shape and it still works amazing.
I’m drooling over your Hoosier cabinet. Can’t believe someone just put it out to the side of the road. You definitely found a beautiful antique. I’ve always wanted one but they are costly. It’s to bad that the flour canister wasn’t attached but your idea of putting shelves in is good idea. Yes, the bottom drawer was for the bread. I’m thrilled that you didn’t paint it. If you had you would of lost a lot of money in the future if you do decide to sell it. I haven’t seen one with the glass up top so that’s kinda special. You did a beautiful job at decorating it n that wall paper is so pretty on it, good choice n good it’s a peel n stick too. Enjoy it tremendously. You’ve a true treasure. ♥️😊👍👍👍
Another great makeover!! When I saw the opening where you have bowls, it might be a perfect spot to hide a mini fridge, especially if you turn it into a bar cart. We use a mini fridge to keep adult drinks separate from main fridge. Again, great makeover and thank you for sharing it.
I had a similar Hoosier for many decades and left it natural like you did. It's so wonderful to see these pieces of history being cared for and used. I just loved this whole video! And FREE?! Wow!
I have my great grandmothers hoosier in my dinning room! It's not as fancy as yours is but I love it. Its currently painted white and where the paint has peeled off, lime green underneath. I keep telling my husband that I want him to strip the paint off so that I can just stain it a natural wood color.
That is the lid to the bread box which is the bottom drawer. I have a Hoosier that I've used for 40+ years and I love it. I stripped it down, sanded the wood smooth, rebuilt the roll top, restained it in light oak and repainted the inside white. The bottom cupboard where your Pyrex is has a shelf and the bottom has a slide out that is useful to reach the back. I found a spice rack with milk glass jars, and I still had a lot of my mother's old stuff...sifter, meat grinder or nut grinder, juicer like the one you looked at and more. My youngest son has already dibs it when I don't need it and longer! Yours is beautiful and like you, I didn't want to paint it. I have the glass for the doors, but need to make new ones as the old got warped in someones' back yard! Enjoy and it really does work well in a kitchen and becomes a center for many tasks. Mine has.
It would be a great piece in the family room to host your hot chocolate bar and also convenient to store any outdoor dishes/serving stuff and etcetera for your outdoor space.
I love that at your young age you not only appreciate antiques, but you also figure out how things worked. Watching this video brought back a flood of memories of growing up on a farm and my mother using her Hoosier just as you describe. She ground the meat and sifted flour for baking, pulled out the counter for rolling out dough, and kept her potatoes that we had dug up from the garden in the cool dry bin. I agree with another person who commented that this Hoosier found you. :) Thank you for posting!
Great find!! You did an awesome job cleaning 🧼 it up and styling it. I think most impressive is your knowledge on these old items and the functionality of them. No too many young people I know are interested in vintage and antiques. It’s refreshing 😊👍
What an amazing find! I love that you kept it original. I wondered if you could turn the top around? You might be able to grind nuts with meat grinder.
Ooh I adore Hoosier cabinets! Can’t believe you found this one for free!!😍 I have my beloved Hoosier in my kitchen, where I use it daily. It adds so much vintage charm.🥰
We designed and built our home, and I knew I wanted a Hoosier in my kitchen. We designed my kitchen to be mostly unfitted, so there would be room for the Hoosier, as well as various hutches and dressers for storage. The Hoosier has center stage for sure though, it’s the first thing you see when you enter the house.🥰
I'm so happy you saved this beautiful piece. I have one that is very similar. Some of your tips I'm going to use. I use mine for our coffee bar. These were used to store flour and do your baking procedures on top of the table that pulls out. The tin/metal was used to keep mice out and for hot pies. They are so cool!!
Your video just popped up on my tv. I liked it. We had a Hoosier cabinet and had to down size and gave it to our granddaughter. You were right about that medal piece going in the bottom drawer. Where that little indent is, is the front and it slides. There was also a medal rack, like an oven rack that went in the left side. I love the way you decorated it with the old stuff. I kept old things in and sometime added old pictures in ours. Love from Ohio
I had a Hoosier that I purchased at an antique store in 1980. It was a natural wood but not as quite as nice as yours. I'm so glad you didn't paint it.Authentic is the way to go. My daughter used to love taking the pots and pans out of the bottom cabinet. It provided many hours of play for her as a toddler.We sold it after 15 years because we didn't have the room for it anymore. But it was great while we had it.
wow, what a gift! keep your eyes on the place you picked it up; maybe drop by & ask if they have anything like that they want to get rid of. never hurts to ask! blessings, jenny
Thank you so much for keeping the natural wood. That is why it is worth so much. I have one that I will have to strip to get it back to natural wood and it will ve lits of work and expensive, but worth it. I also gave a white one, that was always white. I love the old Hoosier cabinets so much
This is a beautiful piece I cant believe it was on the side of the road.. you really scored a nice addition to your home. I love that you are keeping it the way it came, I love the color and I think it adds beauty to your home. It looks as though the piece was not kept well maybe it was kept outside for awhile. So sad that people do not realize what they have.
That is such an amazing find!! I'm so glad it found you and you repurposed it to make it look like it did in its glory days.. That meat grinder took me back like 5 decade's.. I use to watch my dad grind up the meat from an animal that was butchered or hunted.. Thank you for this share, it made me happy.. 😄
I restored Hoosiers years ago, and you can order the side brackets to mount on the sides of the bottom to secure the top to, then you can slide the tin piece out for extra work space. So glade you didn't paint it, even though they were often originally painted in cream yellow or light green. En And yes, the tin lid goes on the bottom drawer for bread.. Enjoy your wonderful piece.
Awesome find! Old heavy expensive furniture you can find super cheap or in your case free, because they are inconvenient for a lot of people. We bought a Hooker desk for 50bucks because no one wanted to deal with it.
Inmy childhood I saw a lot of old Hoosier cabinets with the flower sifter etc. If I knew then what I knew now as to how popular they would be for nostalgia buffs..... My grandmother used her meat grinder for making things like sausage, canning minced meat, and making ham salad for sandwiches. I found and bought an old grinder at a junk store and keep saying I'm going to make ham salad just like grama did. LOL Good job, and I'm glad this free piece was in good enough condition to keep natural.
Love it! What a great find! I definitely would have been tempted to paint it. Beer cart or coffee bar would be fun for sure. I liked the suggestion of a mini fridge. But I love it just as it is. Nice job. 😊
My grandmother's Hoosier had a flour bin that tilted out on the bottom left side of the piece, one of the small drawers on the top piece held her salt. The bottom right drawer was used to hold bread dough while it was rising. Your meat grinder is missing the back plate that fits around the shaft of the "Grinder wheel". My grandmother had several different Plates that fit the front of the grinder and they were different sizes, to determine the size of the "Grind". Also a warning: If you try to grind anything with moisture content, including chunks of meat, the grinder will leak the liquid out the back near the handle, so if you use it for that kind of thing, be aware of the leakage and make sure that you have a bowl or bucket to catch it, or it ends up on the floor and is quite messy! Good job keeping it natural and frankly something that old and valuable is best used for display/decoration. Thanks for sharing your Treasure Find with us!
You did a lovely job. I have a hoosier also and LOVE it! A little wider than yours as I have the flour bin/sifter on one side and cabinets on the other. Yes, my bottom drawer is lined w/ tin. What an awesome "find" and you did it up well! Good job! How fortunate for your kitchen!! (the second item that you called a sifter that was hanging on the wall in the antique store is actually a Foley Food Mill, used for pulverizing/mashing fruits i.e. apples when making applesauce and such).
Using the Steele wool works well when I'm looking to get the dirt off I use the S.O.S. scribbles the soap in them is very mild and serves it's purpose! You found a beautiful cabnet!
I use a wonderful yellow oil from an antique mall on my old wood. It totally feeds and rejuvenates the wood. I found my cabinet for $55 many, many years ago, but my first one was $5!! Mine is full of jadeite!
I have great luck with finding and acquiring "Free Antiques" I have every type old utensils enamel ware, crockery. I have one of these Hoosiers mine is all enamel .
You got a gem. Growing up, we had a Hoosier in our kitchen. Because we were poor, ours was made of some sort of cheaper wood and was white with decals on the doors. We had the flour bin/sifter on one side of the top part and cabinets on the other. When my mother could no longer take care of our home, she gave the Hoosier to me. I took it to a restoration shop and they did a wonderful job. I still had the flour bin/sifter and my porcelain top still pulled out for doing things on it. Making cookies and rolling pie dough was so easy on it because the porcelain tended to keep a cool temp. I am 76 now so my son has had the Hoosier for about 12 years now and he has it sitting in their dining room. Mine was white as it always was white. I even had the little porcelain pans with the glass lids that were for storing things in. Enjoy it, you did such a nice job fixing it up and it is worth some money. Good job.
I loved your story of your family Hoosier! My maternal grandmother had one also and I remember that piece so well! They just don’t make things like they used to. So nice that you gave your Hoosier to your son I’m sure they treasure it!💕
I can’t believe that was free! So glad you kept it natural and the way you have it set up is so vintage. Absolutely beautiful!
Thanks so much! 😊 I still can't believe it was free!!
I was saying over and over “omg do not paint it, please please please do not paint that!”
And I paint a lot of old furniture, but I also restore a lot too.
We have one of those cabinets that still has the flour sifter, found at Goodwill for $100. If you want to refinish the enamel top, use tractor paint for a like-new surface,
My grandpa used his meat grinder for seeds, like dried corn and other stuff like dried chickpeas to make flour 😊🇲🇽
That's an amazing idea!! Thank you for sharing!
For the grinder add some felt pads to the two parts that touch the worktop to prevent damage.
A cocktail cabinet come sideboard for the dining table is a great idea. Pull out bottle shelves added to the bottom cupboard (modern kitchen fitting) would maximise accessibility.
My best friends mum had a mid century hoosier in the 60s. Gave her all the essential storage and workspace she needed to cook from scratch. Modern kitchens make us walk and clean a lot more than we need to.
🏵️Bless you! That's brilliant. Feel kinda stupid for not thinking of that myself😲.
I inherited two meat grinders from my ♦️Grandma Ruby. One had never been used. They're so cool & industrial, but I'm a long time 🥑vegetarian.
💚 Bridget from Cali ☘️
(using my pal's YT acct)
@@teresacarle294 In Mexico we use it to make the dough (Masa) for tortilla but you can use it for any seed, my grandpa used to soak the seeds all night and they where ready in the morning 😊 I wish I have one 🇲🇽❤️👋
Cool! I'm 51 and had never heard of a hoosier til this video, but it's beautiful! I love old stuff being brought back to life!!!
I’m always “team paint it” but oh my word so glad u left this as it was... it’s gorgeous🌷🌷🌷🌷
Me too! It felt so weird not painting it but I really like how it looks natural with the wallpaper! So glad you think the same 😊
My grandmother had a hooshier. Your so lucky your mom found it. And i so remember the meat grinder from thanksgiving dinner prep. Love that you have such an old soul.
How cool! I love old things like this, it's amazing to see!
So happy that someone your age truly appreciates lovely antiques. 👍❤
I love antiques! My parents have always been antique collectors!
What a stunning piece of furniture and I love how you’ve restored it 😍
Thanks so much! 😊
I lost one of these in the 70s. A guy told me he was going to restore it for me and he disappeared with it. Broke my heart. I had had it on layaway for months.😭😭😭
Yes, the metal piece is for the bottom drawer and was used as a bread keeper. I love my hoosier and keep all my baking/bread making products in ours. You did a great job!
thank you so much!
If you didn't already know, the metal drawer with metal cover was designed to be mouse-proof. Mice were a problem in older homes back then, and the smell of fresh bread lured them to the Hoosier.
Yes the bottom drawer was used as a bread box,It was metal to keep the mice out, I have one that belonged to my grandparents.
That metal tray looks like what they used to proof dough for bread before baking ...what an awesome find for sure....sooo much history and character 😊❣️👍
Yes, you're right, the bottom drawer is for the bread. It should be lined with tin, too, and have sliders for that top piece. The bottom cabinet part, usually, had a shelf with wire baskets in it to hold root vegetables...and there was, typically, a rack on the back of that cabinet door for jars, etc. I have one that still has the flour sifter in it. I have my big mixing bowl sitting right under it. It's very handy if you bake your own bread, which they did in those days. Well, you've seen images of those Hoosier Cabinets. So, you know exactly how they were set up and understand how they were used. I'm so glad you restored it and kept it in original condition. It's not only a valuable piece of history, it's beautiful, as well. Lovely. 💕
That is such great info! Thank you for sharing with me! I'm going to keep an eye out for those accessories!
When I saw the video pop up in my notifications, a bar cart was literally the first thing to pop into my brain with what you could use it for. You could literally put a coffee maker, teas, hot chocolate, syrups, creamers, and everything else in there.
That would look sooo cute!!
It looks like "Mado" cabinet used in France - Belgium, or similar cabinets used in the 50's in Europe. Greetings from Brussels from an Italian lady :-)
That looks wonderful! The wallpaper really adds a pop to it. I'm glad you kept it natural. It's beautiful!! All your vintage pieces look perfect on it. Well done!!
thank you so much!
It was a beautiful piece you found I just loved it and cleaned it up so perfectly it was beautiful hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy
Yes, that metal piece with the holes is for the breadbox in bottom drawer/ BFF's mom had a Hoosier kitchen growing up & that is where they kept their bread for sure!
I can’t believe you found this for free! I paid $120 for mine in 2005. I repainted mine cream on the outside & pale green within. The bottom right side drawer was usually lined with tin for raising loaves of bread. I have considered having my porcelain top powder-coated to restore it. Have used in my apartment kitchen years ago and in my art studio (it’s favorite spot). Now in storage and I miss it!
That cabinet is so lucky to be picked up by you. Thanks mom!!!!
The metal cover goes over the potato bin drawer. It keeps them in a dark, dry place while allowing for air flow. It's a lovely piece 😊
If you look at the old advertisements, that metal drawer was always shown as a bread drawer. The Hoosier was a baking center so potatoes were never kept there.
Actually those cast iron meat grinders had multitude of interchangeable parts and attachments, they were like the Kitchen aid of their time. My mum inherited one from her grandmother and is still in full working order. She not only uses it to make sausages and mince, but also to process vegetables and fruit for jams and various preserves. Additionally it has attachments to make variety of pressed biscuits desighns. 🥰 the large sifter on the wall is actually moilin and is used to process fruit and soft vegetables in to puree and paste.
Wow,what a good deal (free). Always loved Hoosier cabinets. We used to have one when I was growing up,that was my great grandparents. So pretty.
That is awesome!
What a lucky find!!! Hoosiers were usually made with assorted woods of varying hues, so they were usually painted to make uniformity. To find one which was never painted is sort of rare, so I'm really glad you didn't alter it. I also have one which was never painted. It was in pretty sad shape, but my son restored it. The flourbin/sifter is missing, however, as is the lid for the bread keeper. As my kitchen is very small, I use it for necessary storage.
I got one that was painted white, so I spent a summer stripping it (later I saw several 1920's ads where the Hoosier was white, so maybe it was white originally). Also, I added legs and wheels to the bottom, as mine were missing. There are good supply companies online for Hoosiers. Now it's in my 1910 house kitchen, and a microwave fits into the open niche where you have the dishes displayed, a great way to 'hide' that essential kitchen appliance!
I'm so glad you kept it natural because you would probably regret painting it eventually and it would really make an amazing bar cart. Btw that meat grinder also works for nuts, I still have one of those in my kitched from my great grandma, it's in a really good shape and it still works amazing.
Congratulations, you did a beautiful job. Well done. Take care and God bless
You are crazy lucky to find this for free, and it's in good condition too! Glad you kept the natural wood too.
Thank you ☺️
I’m drooling over your Hoosier cabinet. Can’t believe someone just put it out to the side of the road. You definitely found a beautiful antique. I’ve always wanted one but they are costly. It’s to bad that the flour canister wasn’t attached but your idea of putting shelves in is good idea. Yes, the bottom drawer was for the bread. I’m thrilled that you didn’t paint it. If you had you would of lost a lot of money in the future if you do decide to sell it. I haven’t seen one with the glass up top so that’s kinda special. You did a beautiful job at decorating it n that wall paper is so pretty on it, good choice n good it’s a peel n stick too. Enjoy it tremendously. You’ve a true treasure. ♥️😊👍👍👍
You can flip the porcelain top around. I did mine. The part under the top section is usually in good shape .
Yes! I actually did that, I forgot to mention that!
I’ve never seen a Hoosier, but I appreciate that you made a video of how you brought it back into everyday use.
Another great makeover!! When I saw the opening where you have bowls, it might be a perfect spot to hide a mini fridge, especially if you turn it into a bar cart. We use a mini fridge to keep adult drinks separate from main fridge.
Again, great makeover and thank you for sharing it.
WOW! Brilliant idea!! Now I need to get a mini fridge 😂 My husband will love that!!
I had a similar Hoosier for many decades and left it natural like you did. It's so wonderful to see these pieces of history being cared for and used. I just loved this whole video! And FREE?! Wow!
Wonderful video! Thank you for taking us along your journey with this piece of history
You're correct about the metal lid. It is for keeping the bread in that lower drawer.
You are a very lucky lady, besides being talented. I have a very inexpensive "Hoosier ". I love it!!!!! You can buy replacement parts in a catalog.
Amazing find! I love the color! So glad you keep it original.
It turned out so beautiful. I’m happy you kept it it’s original color.
Really enjoyed this, so glad vintage is coming back..and the bland is going 👍
You restored it beautifully. Love the way you styled it also. Enjoy!
Whoever had that they took really good care of it and it’s beautiful
I have my great grandmothers hoosier in my dinning room! It's not as fancy as yours is but I love it. Its currently painted white and where the paint has peeled off, lime green underneath. I keep telling my husband that I want him to strip the paint off so that I can just stain it a natural wood color.
That's amazing you have your grandmother's!
What a great find .. I have always wanted one of those .. I'm so glad you left it natural
Thanks for watching!
That is the lid to the bread box which is the bottom drawer. I have a Hoosier that I've used for 40+ years and I love it. I stripped it down, sanded the wood smooth, rebuilt the roll top, restained it in light oak and repainted the inside white. The bottom cupboard where your Pyrex is has a shelf and the bottom has a slide out that is useful to reach the back. I found a spice rack with milk glass jars, and I still had a lot of my mother's old stuff...sifter, meat grinder or nut grinder, juicer like the one you looked at and more. My youngest son has already dibs it when I don't need it and longer! Yours is beautiful and like you, I didn't want to paint it. I have the glass for the doors, but need to make new ones as the old got warped in someones' back yard! Enjoy and it really does work well in a kitchen and becomes a center for many tasks. Mine has.
So glad you left it original. So beautiful!The greatest value is in its current condition.
I'd never heard the term housier but I do remember my grandmother having one. U did a great job restoring urs. Thank u for the lemon/baking soda tip.
It would be a great piece in the family room to host your hot chocolate bar and also convenient to store any outdoor dishes/serving stuff and etcetera for your outdoor space.
Its beautiful, and I never heard of a Hoosier before and I live in Indiana
looks great! What a find! Needs maybe a trailing plant on top? I think the greenery would look so nice with the wood!
I love that at your young age you not only appreciate antiques, but you also figure out how things worked. Watching this video brought back a flood of memories of growing up on a farm and my mother using her Hoosier just as you describe. She ground the meat and sifted flour for baking, pulled out the counter for rolling out dough, and kept her potatoes that we had dug up from the garden in the cool dry bin. I agree with another person who commented that this Hoosier found you. :) Thank you for posting!
Great find!! You did an awesome job cleaning 🧼 it up and styling it. I think most impressive is your knowledge on these old items and the functionality of them. No too many young people I know are interested in vintage and antiques. It’s refreshing 😊👍
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that!
What an amazing find! I love that you kept it original. I wondered if you could turn the top around? You might be able to grind nuts with meat grinder.
What a score. So glad you saved it. I would love to find one of these for free. Can’t believe ppl don’t want these.
Ooh I adore Hoosier cabinets! Can’t believe you found this one for free!!😍
I have my beloved Hoosier in my kitchen, where I use it daily. It adds so much vintage charm.🥰
Oh wow! That sounds amazing!! I hope to have a large kitchen one day and use it in there!
We designed and built our home, and I knew I wanted a Hoosier in my kitchen. We designed my kitchen to be mostly unfitted, so there would be room for the Hoosier, as well as various hutches and dressers for storage. The Hoosier has center stage for sure though, it’s the first thing you see when you enter the house.🥰
A phenomenal transformation!!! I truly love all of your videos
Great find and FREE. You did a great job cleaning it up. Looks like that’s all it needed. Enjoy. Thanks for sharing.👍👍👍🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
What a great find. Congratulations. I love road side finds. I've always wanted a Hoosier cabinet.
I'm so happy you saved this beautiful piece. I have one that is very similar. Some of your tips I'm going to use. I use mine for our coffee bar. These were used to store flour and do your baking procedures on top of the table that pulls out. The tin/metal was used to keep mice out and for hot pies. They are so cool!!
So glad you kept it original!!! It gorgeous! I sooo hope to have one!!!
Love this piece! And thank you for the tip on the baking soda and lemon juice. That is a handy trick.
You are so welcome!
Your video just popped up on my tv. I liked it. We had a Hoosier cabinet and had to down size and gave it to our granddaughter. You were right about that medal piece going in the bottom drawer. Where that little indent is, is the front and it slides. There was also a medal rack, like an oven rack that went in the left side. I love the way you decorated it with the old stuff. I kept old things in and sometime added old pictures in ours. Love from Ohio
what an amazing find, you did a wonderful job cleaning it up!
I love it!!! What a beautiful piece!! Your displays are so pretty!!
Thank you so much!
GREAT to leave natural wood finish. Awesome FIND!! Lucky gal!
It looks amazing! I love the natural wood look
Wow!! Free!! That is beautiful just like it is...good eye! I like the wallpaper idea also 😘😘🤣👍😃
You are so lucky! Hoosiers are super expensive!
I still can't believe I found it!!
I had a Hoosier that I purchased at an antique store in 1980. It was a natural wood but not as quite as nice as yours. I'm so glad you didn't paint it.Authentic is the way to go. My daughter used to love taking the pots and pans out of the bottom cabinet. It provided many hours of play for her as a toddler.We sold it after 15 years because we didn't have the room for it anymore. But it was great while we had it.
That is truly beautiful! You did a great job refinishing.
wow, what a gift! keep your eyes on the place you picked it up; maybe drop by & ask if they have anything like that they want to get rid of. never hurts to ask! blessings, jenny
Thank you so much for keeping the natural wood. That is why it is worth so much. I have one that I will have to strip to get it back to natural wood and it will ve lits of work and expensive, but worth it. I also gave a white one, that was always white. I love the old Hoosier cabinets so much
OMG I would give anything to find that piece of history on the side of the road! Awesome find, you did a great job! ❤😊
Love that you saved this. Good job!
I’m new here and wow you don’t know how lucky you was to get that for free. I think it looks beautiful!
This is a beautiful piece I cant believe it was on the side of the road.. you really scored a nice addition to your home. I love that you are keeping it the way it came, I love the color and I think it adds beauty to your home. It looks as though the piece was not kept well maybe it was kept outside for awhile. So sad that people do not realize what they have.
That is such an amazing find!! I'm so glad it found you and you repurposed it to make it look like it did in its glory days.. That meat grinder took me back like 5 decade's.. I use to watch my dad grind up the meat from an animal that was butchered or hunted.. Thank you for this share, it made me happy.. 😄
I restored Hoosiers years ago, and you can order the side brackets to mount on the sides of the bottom to secure the top to, then you can slide the tin piece out for extra work space. So glade you didn't paint it, even though they were often originally painted in cream yellow or light green. En And yes, the tin lid goes on the bottom drawer for bread.. Enjoy your wonderful piece.
Awesome find! Old heavy expensive furniture you can find super cheap or in your case free, because they are inconvenient for a lot of people. We bought a Hooker desk for 50bucks because no one wanted to deal with it.
Inmy childhood I saw a lot of old Hoosier cabinets with the flower sifter etc. If I knew then what I knew now as to how popular they would be for nostalgia buffs..... My grandmother used her meat grinder for making things like sausage, canning minced meat, and making ham salad for sandwiches. I found and bought an old grinder at a junk store and keep saying I'm going to make ham salad just like grama did. LOL Good job, and I'm glad this free piece was in good enough condition to keep natural.
What a great find. You did a really great job on it.
Wow super fun to watch you do this!
Love it! What a great find! I definitely would have been tempted to paint it. Beer cart or coffee bar would be fun for sure. I liked the suggestion of a mini fridge. But I love it just as it is. Nice job. 😊
I was soo tempted!
I have one almost like yours but mine doesnt have the glass panels. It does have all of the bins inside. :) Great find!
My grandmother's Hoosier had a flour bin that tilted out on the bottom left side of the piece, one of the small drawers on the top piece held her salt. The bottom right drawer was used to hold bread dough while it was rising.
Your meat grinder is missing the back plate that fits around the shaft of the "Grinder wheel". My grandmother had several different Plates that fit the front of the grinder and they were different sizes, to determine the size of the "Grind". Also a warning: If you try to grind anything with moisture content, including chunks of meat, the grinder will leak the liquid out the back near the handle, so if you use it for that kind of thing, be aware of the leakage and make sure that you have a bowl or bucket to catch it, or it ends up on the floor and is quite messy!
Good job keeping it natural and frankly something that old and valuable is best used for display/decoration.
Thanks for sharing your Treasure Find with us!
You can use the grinder for fruit too.
My Mom, may she R.I.P. used hers to grind fruits(raisins, prunes etc) for Christmas puddings.
I'm sorry about your mom ♥️ that is a fabulous idea with the fruit!
@@OurLittleNest Thank you. She just died in March. 💔 You have a lovely family and channel. Keep up the great content.
Wow, what a GREAT find! Thanks for sharing your lemon juice tip❤.
You are so welcome! It's so simple yet so effective!
I'm in LOVE with your cottagecore makeovers and furniture 🍄🌿
Aww thank you so much!!🧚
You did a beautiful job!! It looks nice in its natural colour. Enjoy it!!
Thank you! 😊
WoW!!!how awesome!!!can't wait to see the after,I know it's gonna be great 👍🏻 ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hope you like it!
You did a lovely job. I have a hoosier also and LOVE it! A little wider than yours as I have the flour bin/sifter on one side and cabinets on the other. Yes, my bottom drawer is lined w/ tin. What an awesome "find" and you did it up well! Good job! How fortunate for your kitchen!! (the second item that you called a sifter that was hanging on the wall in the antique store is actually a Foley Food Mill, used for pulverizing/mashing fruits i.e. apples when making applesauce and such).
That is AMAZING! And free! Beautiful restoration 🌻
Thank you! 😊
Using the Steele wool works well when I'm looking to get the dirt off I use the S.O.S. scribbles the soap in them is very mild and serves it's purpose!
You found a beautiful cabnet!
Wow free u won the hosier lottery amazing job 👏 very nice 👌
Wow! What a great find, very pleased that you didn’t paint it! Have a wonderful day! Christine 🇨🇦
I use a wonderful yellow oil from an antique mall on my old wood. It totally feeds and rejuvenates the wood. I found my cabinet for $55 many, many years ago, but my first one was $5!! Mine is full of jadeite!
It’s gorgeous, yes a bar cart or coffee bar you totally lucked out 🤗💕
Wow! Free! That’s unreal! How lucky you are!
Excellent informative video! You did a great job with cleaning it up and decorating it!
Thank you so much!
I have great luck with finding and acquiring "Free Antiques" I have every type old utensils enamel ware, crockery. I have one of these Hoosiers mine is all enamel .
I’ve never seen one of these, thanks for showing how it would have been styled. 🌸🌼🌻🌺
So glad to hear that!
I am Soooooooooooooo jelly.... WoW
.what a FIND!!!!!! TFS