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wooden stove top tray

Smart Kitchen Ideas

A pair of design ideas that deliver charm and convenience. Aren’t we always looking for ideas that will make our day-to-day lives easier?  It’s double the pleasure when the outcome is attractive.  Instead of dark, hard to reach corner cabinets, install open shelving.  These floating stainless steel shelves solve the dead space dilemma and are [...]

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antique gray French armoire set into wall of kitchen cabinets from House Beautiful

Antique Gray Hutch Kitchen

The French armoire inset is only one trick of the trade used in this soft palette design. Many from the kitchen obsessed crowd would begin buying for their dream kitchen with the French range.  But designer Samantha Lyman and her client’s first purchase was the pair of vintage Dutch ship lights.  The large scale vintage [...]

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white kitchen with black cabinet hardware and dark matching tile grout

Hardware Love Kitchens

As “Kitchen Week” continues, pumping up a metallic finish in the color scheme can be amazingly effective. Cabinet-look kitchens are particularly prone to hardware overload, especially with white since it’s such an effective backdrop. So the very first thing I noticed about this kitchen was the handles — all matching and lined up like a [...]

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green painted floor kitchen by Melissa Ervin

Green Painted Floor Kitchen

Quick decisions don’t always look so well thought out, making us green with envy. A recent post, Various Degrees of Green, featured kitchens where green was king.  Various shades appeared on cabinets and walls, even a pea-green gingham ceiling.  While the ceiling is often referred to as the fifth wall, the floor doesn’t often come [...]

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Jasper Conran's white country kitchen

Jasper Conran’s Country Kitchen

In a historic house focused on antiques, this white kitchen island quietly rocks. English merchant and designer Jasper Conran (menswear, women’s wear, home goods) wrote a book about country life in 2010. Pictures of his own historically important (18th century, natch) country house, Ven, were published just this month. The focus was on the glorious [...]

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