Over the top design elements need not overpower a room.
An elaborate tiled coffered ceiling is an over-the-top design element in this kitchen addition, but by keeping the rest of the room light it doesn’t over power the space.  Glass door cabinets are placed over windows and remind me of our recent Salie House China Room.  [...]

Three-inch thick reclaimed walnut tops the 18-foot custom island.
When the owners of this 1927 Spanish Revival home embarked on a two year extensive remodeling journey, no detail was overlooked.  The Salie House is one of over thirty Spanish Revivals located in the historical Hollywood section of Homewood, Alabama.  The previous kitchen was a true servant’s [...]

A water and paint mixture washed over the Eastern white pine brings the sand colors inside.
Simplistic and rustic are usually not the first words that come to mind when I’m asked to describe a beach house.  But that is exactly what the owners of this timber-frame home received from architect Eric Watson.  It is located [...]

Simple, luxurious and perfectly planned down to the last tiny detail, this contemporary kitchen with its glorious book-matched sustainable Eucalyptus veneer cabinets manages to be both exciting and serene.
While it’s true that the stainless steel lining of the stove cove requires considerable maintenance, the workability shines through. There is acres of prep area on the [...]

When Margie B set out to renovate the ‘70s kitchen in her New England home she hoped to keep the original footprint of the room but wanted a peninsula instead of an island. “We were a bit apprehensive about this as the trend is to do the reverse,” she says. “But this setup works really [...]

By the end of next month, the new kitchen in our apartment should be finished. This rendering by our friend Anne E., an exceptionally talented virtual artist and founder of Virtual Room Previews, helped me visualize and refine my concept – complete with exact appliance and faucet choices and close approximations of the new, more [...]

Red-tone, slab-front, wood cabinets are one element in common to these mid-century style kitchens. They also share a fondness for French modernist furniture from the same generation, particularly designs by Jean Prouve, whose distinctive sheet metal and wood pieces are discernible classics.
An informal, ‘60s leaning kitchen [above] features Prouve’s Gueridon Table oak and steel [...]

Look closely to see how an old grand piano was cut down for use as the base of the marble-topped island in the Greystone Court mansion kitchen in Yonkers, N.Y. While it may look authentic, the kitchen actually was a gut job (the house is rented out for movies and photo shoots). The marble [...]

Mixing cabinet and island colors is a popular way to bring variety into a kitchen. Dark brown on the island with white stone on top, plus teal perimeter cabinets covered by black counters (inset with a white farm sink) has a nice country feeling (which means it’s warm) while the crisp white woodwork and horizontal [...]

It’s surprising not to see more French bistro mosaic tile floors – complete with dot patterns and borders – in home kitchens considering the “Wow!” factor this high-contrast brown-and-white beauty delivers. What helps put it over is the lack of competition from other colors or patterns. Wood-tone cabinets coordinate with the chocolate-hue tile and the [...]

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 [...]

In a kitchen with super-abundant detail the most striking feature – an embossed tin ceiling – jumps out. The intensity of the pattern and the cool color are balanced by the wood warmth of the armoire and cabinets. In an unconventional mix, muscular corbels and additional embellishments are added to the hood over the big [...]