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OUR DESIGN ASSESSMENT When we first saw this image of a kitchen, it seemed clear that designers John Loecke and Jason Oliver Nixon of Madcap Cottage had gone for a homey mid-20th-century feel. It could be the room in which Auntie Em worriedly washed dishes as she waited for Dorothy’s return. The retro country touches—a farmhouse sink, a tongue-and-groove ceiling, rustic icebox latches and bin pulls—had us convinced the kitchen was nestled in a lovely rural Midwest house. The cheery colors of the tiles, wallpaper and cabinetry hark to the 1930s through ’50s, worlds away from the all-white and moody gray of urban millennial…