Bucky’s Apartment: a completely unnecessary psycho(over)analysis.
This has probably already been done by someone, but whatever!
Buckle in, buckaroos, we’re going on a wild fucking ride. ✌️
It’s small. Just imagine Bucky trying to stretch his big body out on there.
Look at the little red throw pillow! Does he put it under his head? Hug it to his chest? Does he like the colour?
And the mismatched sofa cushions. Bucky grew up during the Great Depression, so he would have learned to make do, reuse, and repurpose things. People weren’t so wasteful during the Depression. Repairing a sofa cushion costs next to nothing and it’s an otherwise functional loveseat. Judging by the state of his apartment, he clearly values function and (lack of) cost over aesthetic.
Likely found it on the side of the road, or someone gave it to him. Maybe it was already there when he moved in, and he repaired it. A sofa isn’t something he really needs, he wouldn’t have put much thought or effort into having one.
That said, it does provide some cover in case he has to duck behind the kitchen island. Most intruders would come from the front door, which is on the opposite side of the room.
An electric stove, not a gas one. No chance of a gas leak or an explosion resulting from one.
Orange tea towel on the stove. Bucky, please.
Dirty dishes, a bowl and a glass. Cereal for breakfast? Orange juice or a glass of milk? Pierce did offer him a glass of milk in TWS.
One of Bucky’s journals. This is the one that Steve found.
A bag of something (it’s pink – cookies? bread?)
Toaster, knife block, salt shaker.
Some more dirty dishes that he hasn’t gotten around to washing yet, including a skillet and a couple of mugs.
Pink/beige tea towel on the right.
Floral tea towel hanging on the oven handle. Bucky has three tea towels in use, here – two plain ones that he’s just kind of thrown around (probably uses ‘em whilst cooking), and a third more decorative one which has been draped perfectly straight. He probably uses this one to dry his dishes once he washes them. Back in the day, it was common to spruce up your kitchen with a decorative towel (and, I mean, we do that today even). His mom would have done that, and now he’s doing it, too. Maybe it reminds him of way back when.
In the below photo you can also see a saute pan, a whisk, and two spice pots. Sugar would likely be in one of them, because that was how sugar was stored in the 1940s, but I’m not sure what would be in the other. Pepper? Rock salt?
Oh, and that looks like a votive holder behind the yellow bowl. Does he light a scented candle every now and then?
And then we have… The Thing™️.
I originally couldn’t figure out what that little black/white shelf unit thing was, but you can see that there’s something glass on the right side (thought it might be a coffee pot? it’s too small to be a microwave). On the bottom left of it, there’s a small analog clock, and the top left looks like a measuring cup of some sort. I couldn’t zoom in much more than this.
On top of the Thing™️, he’s got some soda/beer cans and more of those caramel snack bars that he’s got above the fridge (under the cut): small comforts. There might also be either a pack of matches or a pack of cigs – probably matches, but I feel like he might indulge in a cigarette every now and then to calm down.
BUT YES, THE THING™️ IS INDEED A COFFEE POT. @brooklyn-boy figured out that it’s a Black and Decker SpaceMaker Coffee Machine from the late 70s or early-to-mid 80′s. See photo.
So, Bucky drinks coffee! That doesn’t really come as a surprise, but it’s nice to have some confirmation of it. I imagine he’d need a lot of it because he doesn’t sleep so well (more on this later). Coffee would be another small comfort, not only because it’s something he likes, but it’s something he can prepare easily.
(there’s a fuck ton more analysis under the cut)
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