Dark kitchens work best when light spills through windows and cabinets contrast with walls and flooring. Leave it to designer and antiques dealer Richard Shapiro to take a roofless surf shack on Malibu’s Broad Beach and turn it into an illusion of a centuries old crumbling villa. Although a black kitchen may not appeal to [...]
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Serious Cook’s Kitchen
How a retired chef created a super-smart design with great storage and two amazing sinks. When a serious cook set out to create the kitchen of her dreams in a 80′s house in the California wine country, she thought about all the “crappy kitchens” she’d had to put up with over the years. “Function was [...]
Heritage Range Kitchen
The focal point for this white kitchen: a show-stopping black stove Amy K. was living in Shanghai, China without access to shelter magazines while she planned the renovation of St. Paul, Minnesota kitchen in an 1889 house. Using internet design sources (including Atticmag we’re happy to report!) as well as our beloved Gardenweb kitchen forum, [...]
Marble Subway Tile Kitchens
Marble subway tile enriches the black and white design formula Designers are always looking for ways to personalize kitchens, particularly the two standby classics: all white and black-and-white kitchens. Back in January I wrote that all-white had become formulaic. That post White Kitchens — Trend Over raised some hackles. Too bad. It’s true. Recently I [...]
Black-and-White Smallbone Kitchen
In London, a 19th Century house with a 21st Century kitchen Modernizing a kitchen in a Victorian house in England is no small accomplishment, even for a designer as celebrated as Robert Couturier. When a longtime client moved from New York to London, Couturier chose the classic black-and-white color scheme using white Smallbone cabinetry with [...]
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