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A sure way to make a prairie house look more like a new and suburban knockoff is to add the can lights in the ceiling. Some fads just need to be ignored..
Google Street View shows a dead straight street on a flat landscape, with broad verges between curb and sidewalk, amply treed, and rows of pre-War houses in various compatible styles -- an idyllic American suburban landscape ?
The kitchen is not an unattractive room, but, as Clyde says, a "not so sympathetic modernization." Prairie kitchens were a continuation of the aesthetics of the house. Other than that, there is only the ever-present excessive use of white that should be modified.