Retro Bottle Opener: Love It or Hate It?

December 27, 2008

If you have a weakness for retro wares, then perhaps you'll want to mount this Restoration Hardware Starr Bottle Opener ($4) on your kitchen wall.

The upside: Never having to hunt for a bottle opener again, and it's cute!

Downside: Will it make me look like a capital D drinker?

15 Comments

ginafly 4 years 20 weeks

I love these, but would not buy this particular one. I don't like that cheap die-cast look to the metal. I MUCH prefer Rejuvenation's version, which I have at home: http://www.rejuvenation.com/fixshow5151/templates/selection.phtml?n=v&fin_selected=BN&img=Z002170

ilanac13 4 years 20 weeks

i'm on the fence about this one. i like things that are retro but i dont' know if this is one that i would pick up myself.

krae85 4 years 20 weeks

hates it!

dootsie 4 years 20 weeks

Oldie but a goodie. Also, be sure you attach this to a stud.

kscincotta 4 years 20 weeks

My husband and I have one like this that we, uh, "borrowed" from a crappy hotel room.

partysugar 4 years 20 weeks

My parents have one at our vacation house. I love it because we never have to rummage around in a drawer for the long lost bottle opener.

PinkNC 4 years 20 weeks

I like it but I would never put it in my kitchen. And it is a good price.

tkoblondee 4 years 20 weeks

cuteness...and only 4 bucks...can't be beat!!

doogirl 4 years 20 weeks

I'd totally put on in the garage, where we keep our 2nd refrigerator for sodas and beer. When the husband and his friends come by, they can pop off their caps outside!

fuzzles 4 years 20 weeks

LOVE it! Reminds me of a time when I was a wee fuzzle. My Dad had one of those oblong metal freezer-style soda fridges in the back of his office. I don't know what was more fun, the taste of grape Crush in a frosty glass bottle, or the "fwoosh" sound that was made when the metal cap was popped! :D

AmberHoney 4 years 20 weeks

I, too, have one in my kitchen - Coca Cola brand, it was a gift and I love it. :)

chiefdishwasher 4 years 20 weeks

Got one in my mountain kitchen. Works great and has been there so long (20 years) that it really is retro.

shoneyjoe 4 years 20 weeks

I love it. But I also bought myself a bottle opener disguised as a key and a bottle opener disguised as a belt, so I'm not exactly one to talk about looking like a capital D drinker now, am I?

finzup 4 years 20 weeks

I love this and I also love those wall mountable wine openers -- you just stick the bottle in and move the lever up and down and voila, an opened bottle of wine in like 1.4 seconds.

macchiatolove 4 years 20 weeks

awesome! I thought I'd hate it, but it's cute, AND practical. And not too 'gimmicky' retro, which a lot of kitchen stuff can be.

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