Vintage: Homemaker Kitchen

Homemaker Kitchen (set 269) is probably the oldest set that I had in my collection when growing up. Released in 1979, I'm not sure how I even ended up with it as I was not even born yet. I do recall building it when I was a child and it took a lot of work going through all my bricks to find the parts I still have today.

Homemaker Kitchen - Manual cover

While looking at the BrickLink inventory and pulling parts it took a bit to tell if a part was “vintage” or not. For example, I discovered I have four variants of the standard 2x2 tile when looking at the bottom.

Four mold variations of 2×2 tile

Functionally they are all the same, but the mold differs slightly. This got me searching for other similar mold changes in parts I own. More information can be found in the Parts Variants section.

As far as the Homemaker Kitchen, most of the larger figure parts I rarely used growing up. I do remember using the blue baseplate for lots of different builds, as it was initially the only baseplate I had.