When the owner of this wonderfully fresh retro kitchen bought the 19th-century house, the shelves and cabinets were a mess. She knew the kitchen needed a transformation and that green would be the color as it reflected all her collectibles.

To establish a vintage feel, celadon green for the cabinets was mixed with mint-green for the [...]

Two-hundred-year-old stone structures often don’t lend themselves to modern kitchens. But the Campanula House, on the Ionian island of Corfu,  shows how a skillful design successfully marries a contemporary kitchen to a rustic interior.
This house is one of 12 restored on the Rou Estate, a high-end property that touts outdoor terraces from which you can [...]

The all-white kitchen – cabinets, back splash, counters – set the style for the first decade of the 21st century. It’s the “manor house” look modernized and marketed by English kitchen designer Christopher Peacock [above], which draws directly from English kitchens of 100 years earlier. Usually described as “classic,” “timeless,” or “elegant,” it crawled from [...]

Grohe Minta, our expert’s top faucet pick. (Photo via grohecatalog.com)
During the past five years and two kitchen renovations, I’ve come to appreciate certain truths. Chief among them: your main sink faucet is the most important fixture in the kitchen – because — arguably, it is used more than anything else but the floor.
With thousands of [...]

My fascination with informal, rustic kitchens dates back to the summers I spent in Paris and later to the various houses we rented in Italy.  Most looked something like this one on the second floor of a house owned by a French archaeological engineer in Damascus, Syria.
Stone is a major element – both in the [...]

Last summer, peeling paint, cracking counters and loose tiles basically forced us to give our apartment kitchen a facelift. I still need a clock and a new microwave and – according to my husband, who frequently does the clean up — we need to replace five pieces of our basic cookware with wooden handles [above] [...]