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cabinets in renovated kitchen on Rou Estate

Ancient House, Modern Kitchen

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 is one of 12 restored houses on the Rou Estate, a high-end property that touts outdoor terraces from which you [...]

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white kitchen with green painted inside cabinets for color

All-White Kitchens – Trend Over

White kitchens looked trendy for a decade. Now, they need updates. 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 [...]

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brown leather daybed with silver mirror

More Inspired Design Showhouse

Tour the second NYC apartment that celebrated extraordinary women A large amount of space has been devoted to the Inspired Designs Showhouse here in New York City. It features two apartments full of rooms — nearly 10,000 square feet — created by 15 top designers as a benefit for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, founded [...]

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6 burner CornueFe stainless steel range

Inspired Design Showhouse

Tour a NYC luxury apartment dedicated to some extraordinary women 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 [...]

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Wolf gas cooktop in custom cherry kitchen

Custom Cherry Kitchen Tour

An amazing update from disco silver to natural country wood 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 [...]

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