A French table with lyre base anchors this bright white kitchen.
A few months ago Veranda magazine featured a wonderful coastal South Carolina home on Brays Island.  Atlanta Designer Suzanne Kasler worked her magic to keep the interiors second only to the marsh and Pocotaligo River views (see below).  This kitchen is located in the “bunkie [...]

Here’s a trend-defiant budget kitchen with a white floor, walls, ceiling and appliances.
Examine this kitchen in a  New York firehouse (converted to a private residence) closely and a budget remodeling job story takes shape. Overall, it looks magazine-worthy – which it is – but pick it apart and you see ways to get a maximum [...]

It may be as easy as adding a few opposites to create  a new feeling in a room.
Everyone has heard the phrase “opposites attract,” but applied to a kitchen?  Mixing the old with the new, the sleek with the chic, the hard with the soft, the dark with the light… well, you get the idea.
A [...]

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 [...]

Halloween, this past week, reminded me of the Practical Magic kitchen. That’s the one in the 1998 Sandra Bullock-Nicole Kidman film about a family of ladies with some spooky special abilities. A lot of the action takes place on the Aga cooker and around the kitchen table.
While the style of this one was by no [...]

Move over Kip’s Bay. A group of 15 premier New York interior designers combined talents in a unique showhouse event to launch a new condominium building on West End Avenue, a street that hasn’t changed so much in 30 years or perhaps longer.
As it happens it’s in my neighborhood, Manhattan’s Upper West side, best known [...]

When classic film star Katharine Hepburn died in 2003 at age 96, her 8000-square foot beach house on the Connecticut coast came onto the real estate market for $12 million and sat there for a year. Hepburn’s father, a Hartford urologist, had rebuilt and expanded the home in 1939, following a famous hurricane in New [...]

Walls of windows on three sides of a New York City penthouse kitchen provide glorious north, east and south views and light — effectively turning it into a functional greenhouse. While this stunning architectural feature makes the kitchen totally unique, it also has an interesting impact on the cooking space.
Everything here functions at waist level [...]

Light reflecting surfaces–white and brushed stainless steel–help a space-challenged kitchen look large and cool even when a staircase occupies valuable real estate.
It’s also clear that every inch matters when a Wolf wall oven gets installed under the stairs as a supplement to a 48-inch range just a few steps away. The presence of two [...]

Modernizing a kitchen in an old building often calls for bold moves. Check out the lonely wooden ceiling beam hovering above the sleek white cabinet as if it was leftover from a gentler age. Likely it is. Meanwhile, here is a thoroughly modern IKEA kitchen that mixes ‘80s revival white melamine with glass-panel upper cabinet [...]

High ceilings in this 18th century house in Bath, England, called for some grand gestures in the kitchen. The extensive plate and utensil rack above the farm sink is a defining feature, as is the shelf with ogee brackets mounted high above the cabinets at picture rail height all around the room. While a [...]