This glorious classic black-and-white kitchen has a show-stopping focal point: a  black Bertazzoni Heritage gas range
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 [...]

Variation on the black-and-white kitchen: Carrara marble subway tile
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 found a [...]

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 black counters. He also worked in pale-blue walls (popular in Britain) [...]

It would be hard to argue against black and white checkerboard as anything other than a classic design motif in a kitchen — whether it’s used on the floor or played out in a tile backsplash. Yet the way it is applied certainly can change the overall impact.
Here is a clear “then and now” example:  [...]

Large, super high-end and gourmet-worthy, this black and white charmer by top Montreal designer Scott Yetman is one of the most interesting and well-designed kitchens we’ve seen in some time. It also has a popular color scheme worked out so thoroughly there are lessons even a practiced kitchen designer can take away.
Walls packed with equipment [...]

L.A. designer Kristen Buckingham (wife of Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey) built what we define as a Hollywood Family Kitchen – dramatic, glamorous, and fully loaded with a batterie of blue-chip (Wolf and Sub Zero) appliances, custom cabinetry and a comme-il-faut for the neighborhood high-prestige mix of features.
We can tick off the must-haves: pot filler-faucet, glass-door SubZero, [...]

Sleek, spacious and consistent in its concept and color scheme, this contemporary black and white kitchen has elegant details that merit study. Despite considerable drama produced by the contrast of black and white surfaces, careful planning has produced a surprisingly serene overall effect.
Anyone who knows my particular bias against upper cabinets — which I feel [...]

The cooktop installed on an island topped with polished black granite allows the cook to face into the dining room while still retaining a convenient relationship to the main sink just behind. Butcher block on the perimeter cabinets — round an undermounted apron-front farm sink — must be carefully sealed but many cooks prefer wood [...]

When we talk about updating a classic Victorian-style English kitchen, we need look no further for a prototype than this one by Robinson and Cornish. Let’s begin with the imposing ivory Aga cooker, set into a deep, tiled and lighted niche with a mantel built to disguise the venting system.  White cabinets have inset, paneled [...]

The black range hood is so wide and tall it becomes the dominant design element of this kitchen and sets off the play of black and white appliances. The hood holds sway over a white gas range surrounded by a black inset in the floor. Likewise, a black-front dishwasher is installed into a white [...]

An ebony-ivory drama is created by a Jet Mist granite counters, with an unusually prominent “crumb sweeper” overhang along the entire sink wall. White perimeter cabinets braclet a handsome black Viking range fitted with a stainless steel wall guard right up to the ventilator. The kitchen’s black, English-style, turned-leg worktable with a pot shelf [...]

The combination of natural oak with painted cabinets gives a cool modernity to this traditionally styled English kitchen by the bespoke cabinetmaker Chalon. The oak island and black-painted perimeter cabinets, anchored by polished black granite counters, have a yin/yang quality usually reserved for pairings with more contrast. However, here white upper cabinets take on a [...]