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Mustard Yellow Kitchen

Taking a chance on an unusual color combination creates a dream country kitchen. Canadian House & Home designed a five-star space in their 2011 Princess Margaret Showhome.  To-the-ceiling cabinets are painted No 7 Octagon yellow from Farrow & Ball.  The color is a nice contrast to the honed CeasarStone counters and matte black CornuFe range.  [...]

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Petworth House kitchen still room

Mother of All English Kitchens

In 1834, a grand picnic for 6000 was prepared in this very kitchen at Petworth House. Those tantalizing glimpses of English manor house kitchens we see in the new Upstairs-Downstairs rarely offer time to study how our elaborately fitted kitchen cabinets with their pull outs, knife drawers, and fireclay farm sinks evolved. Such a kitchen, [...]

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plate rack on the end of an antique island in a yellow kitchen

Antique Island Kitchen

Pale yellow and dark wood blend with marble and steel in a contemporary cottage. There’s something very neat and understated about this East Coast country house kitchen which shows a welcome balance between warm and cool, old and new. On the warm side are the elegant pale yellow, Shaker style perimeter cabinets around a dark [...]

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Sheila Bridges kitchen with her yellow Harlem toile de jouy wallpaper and Tord Boontje cukoo clock

Sheila Bridges Kitchen

New York designer Sheila Bridges has a flair for creating highly original spaces. A feature on Bridges’ country kitchen, in the late and lamented Domino magazine, highlights several unique features. Chief among them is her “Harlem Toile de Jouy” wallpaper, a modernized print in bright yellow on her kitchen walls. As Bridges explains it the [...]

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Mondrian painting which has similar colors as a kitchen

Yellow Geometric Kitchen

A kitchen that takes inspiration from great art. With mimosa having been “color of the year” and catalogs with yellow décor on the covers, it’s only natural to take a closer look at the way a bright mottled yellow is used in this kitchen by designer Linda Applewhite. Usually, kitchen color is defined by cabinets. [...]

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