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natural wood mission style kitchen with awning windows

Mission Style Kitchen

by on November 15, 2008 in Wood Kitchen

A natural wood beach-house kitchen offers an unrestrained purity of materials. The four square motif, typical of Mission, appears on the raised eating bar that divides the monochromatic natural oak kitchen from the adjacent great room. Awning windows, industrial pendant lights, an English-style work table/island with turned legs and tiles set into the ends  help [...]

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mission style cabinets in a barnlike space

Mission Barn Kitchen

by on November 15, 2008 in Wood Kitchen

Mission-style cabinets in a barn-like space creates a unique wood-centric fusion Windows set high in a soaring open space let wonderful natural light into this galley kitchen.  Exposed timbers set off the wood of the Mission-style natural wood cabinets with a hutch resembling Hoosier cabinets on each side of the pro-style range. Hutches  are backed [...]

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natural, sustainable eucalyptus cabinet kitchen

Lyptus Kitchen

by on November 15, 2008 in Wood Kitchen

The beauty of sustainable, natural wood is well expressed in these cabinets. Farmed Brazilian Eucalyptus is a renewable hardwood now trademarked as Lyptus (a word that unfortunately sounds like a disease). An active grain, it’s nicely matched here by a Massachusetts cabinetmaker and looks equally good on the batten doors, slab front drawers and panels [...]

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Butler's pantry in the Canadian stone mansion kitchen at Maus Park

Canadian Stone Mansion Kitchen

by on November 15, 2008 in Rustic Kitchen

How do you describe a kitchen with exposed brick walls, stone floor, and a big black La Cornue? Franco-rustic, maybe. Oil paintings in gilded frames flank the range’s stainless back guard which supports a pot filler faucet and matching Viking hood. More charm is ladled on by marble-topped country cabinets (notice open storage below the [...]

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Arts and Crafts Crown Point oak cabinets with copper hood and Heartland range

Copper Hood Arts & Crafts Kitchen

by on November 15, 2008 in Wood Kitchen

For early 20th Century revivals, oak’s the wood of choice. Arts and Crafts is the energizer bunny of styles — it just keeps going.  A sage, copper and oak-tone palette is practically archival as are the Mission-style cabinets which channel Stickley mixed with English Victorian.  The copper hood nods sweetly to the lamps and vases [...]

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