“We had friends over last night and I kept opening and closing the cabinet doors to get dishes or whatever. I found myself grumbling about it.”
My friend Christine, who’s longing to remodel her 70s kitchen recently coined the term “anti-upperitis” to express her annoyance with upper kitchen cabinet storage and desire to have less [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Anyone who doubts the veracity of the cliché: “what’s old is new again” need look no further than kitchen cabinets hung with fabric skirts instead of doors.
This was the DIY middle-class solution to kitchen design before the post-World War II home-building boom. Although it went out as a style in the 1950s it lingered in [...]

Rustic takes a bold turn in this kitchen where cherry-red and white tile lines a large chimney niche and frames a big Wolf range with signature red knobs. In the niche, an inky paint color makes lower pots and pan shelves adjacent to the range take on a subordinate role. Counters are topped with soapstone.
While [...]

A kitchen is the sum of many parts so it’s intriguing to see how a mother and daughter – both designers – use the same elements with original, but very different, stylistic results.
Houston designer Pam Pierce’s kitchen [above] was included in a piece on the much-admired Côte de Texas blog back in January. What made [...]

Rural kitchens in Tuscany and Umbria are often makeshift and unfitted. This one, with fitted cabinets enclosing the refrigerator and along the stove wall, would be considered “American style.” Still, it is in Italy where open storage areas in the bottom cabinets are as common as open shelves (instead of upper cabinets) on the range [...]

Built from theatrical props, this Greenwich Village apartment kitchen belongs to a salvage artist. The tin tiles of the backsplash hail from a flea market. The cabinet was made from found windows. Butcher-block on the counters is antique. A deep porcelain salvage sink comes from Web Wilson (webwilson.com). Base cabinets and shelving have a [...]

Salvaged barn wood walls and a French terracotta tile floor give a well-worn look to this historic Long Island house. Custom cabinets made from reclaimed wood are painted black to match the French range. An antique bakery table and copper pots contribute to the gently aged atmosphere. (Source: H&G Feb.04)

The beauty of many European country house kitchens lies in their make-do qualities. No fancy cabinets, furniture details or posh cabinets. Appliances such as the gas range are often small enough to fit into old-house spaces. Their appeal is elemental — a well-worn marble sink, a handful of old tiles arranged artfully, and fabric skirts [...]

From the herringbone-brick ceiling to the terracotta tile floor, this is a real Tuscan villa kitchen. Typically, there are white stucco walls and unfitted wood-tone and painted cabinets. A close look reveals two chimneys – a small one over a utility range and the large one venting the wood-burning camino — the fireplace and grill [...]

How do you describe a kitchen with exposed brick walls, stone floor, and a honkin’ big black La Cornue Chateau? Franco-rustic, maybe. Oil paintings in gilded frames flank the range’s stainless back guard which supports a pot filler faucet and matching Viking hood. More charm is ladled on by marble-topped country cabinets (notice open storage [...]