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 [...]

That murky but wonderful mix of green, brown and grey can be described as olive green, khaki green or perhaps more precisely terra green – an earthy natural.
While it’s somewhat dark and qualifies as a drab color (in the Victorian sense of muted vs. dull) it’s a stunning alternative to either gray or natural-wood tones [...]

We found a contractor to do our kitchen facelift. You’ll be seeing him in action very soon but meanwhile he sent Tony, the stone man, to measure for our new tile backsplash and counter tops.
Tony took one look at the pink and green relief on the 1920s subways in our 25 year old backsplash, installed [...]

Know how it is when you’re clearing out piles of old magazines and suddenly something looks so familiar it stops and makes you think? That’s what happened when I spotted the charming, big jade-green shelving unit over the sink of Laura Robinson’s “back kitchen” a wall housing a sink, dishwasher, dish cabinets, refrigerator drawers, and [...]

This gray-green somewhat primitive French café kitchen oozes cottage style and vintage details. Pillar taps permit maximum action in the double sinks, which are skirted with shirred fabric. A bevy of dish racks, cup hoods, and open shelves let wet dishware drain dry. Wire racks, for bread storage, would be equally good for pitchers, teapots [...]

The strong green for this kitchen is pulled from stained glass panels of the Victorian era house and used for bead board, the period door frame and one end of the large island. The high ceiling permits oak soffit cabinets above the string of uppers on the range wall, nicely set off by a contrasting [...]