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Kit Kemp's oval kitchen with white limed-oak cabinets and a bottle green Aga cooker

Oval English Kitchen

At home, British designer Kit Kemp transformed an unusual space into a new kitchen. At first glace, I though ‘typical English kitchen’ with the built in niche for the bottle green Aga cooker and a handsome beam to set off the hood area. Then I realized that there was no distortion in the photo – [...]

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Gothic details on upper cabinets of white Gothic revival kitchen

Gothic Revival Kitchen

It’s rare to find a kitchen with a highly defined historic style. And it’s always a pleasure to see one! The reason? A style-specific kitchen (normally the work of an architect, in this case Eric J. Smith) tends to be memorable because the motifs are coherent, unique and sometimes quirky.  I always favor that kind [...]

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2012 San Francisco Decorator Showcase kitchen

Canvas Color Kitchen

Here’s an unforgettable off-white kitchen that’s plainly chic. At this year’s San Francisco Decorator Showcase, a pair of designers collaborated on a handsome modern-but-not-too-modern galley kitchen installed in the former butler’s pantry of the house. Chief among the many noteworthy features is the overall off-white color scheme that manages to be neutral yet wonderfully stylish. [...]

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sink wall of the red aga kitchen

Red Aga Kitchen

A 1940s kitchen gets a graceful facelift plus a glamorous replacement for an antique stove. New York City kitchens often have unique features or situations, particularly in the borough of Brooklyn. There, narrow attached row houses (which we know as brownstones) were constructed for family living during the housing boom of the early 1900s as [...]

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white kitchen with black cabinet hardware and dark matching tile grout

Hardware Love Kitchens

As “Kitchen Week” continues, pumping up a metallic finish in the color scheme can be amazingly effective. Cabinet-look kitchens are particularly prone to hardware overload, especially with white since it’s such an effective backdrop. So the very first thing I noticed about this kitchen was the handles — all matching and lined up like a [...]

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