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 [...]
Jasper Conran’s Country Kitchen
by Jane F on October 12, 2011 in White 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 [...]
Riveted Range Guard Kitchen
by Jane F on October 5, 2011 in Features
As a focal point, the wall above the range – called the range guard — takes on added importance. For a spacious kitchen in a newly constructed Spanish country home, architect Pablo Carvajal and designer Isabel Lopez-Quesada created a stunning range guard behind a white Lancanche Sully with an electric (or possibly induction) top. Protecting [...]
Color of Toast Kitchen
by Jane F on July 20, 2011 in Gray Kitchen
Dark neutral color makes a kitchen appear less kitchen-y. Walls the color of well-done toast may not sound like a recipe for a style trend in the coming decade. But a quick study of this sleek-but-not-slick, chic-but-not-impractical kitchen by Swedish-born designer Patrik Lönn shows how adapting a color scheme usually associated with living rooms, bedrooms [...]
1905 Townhouse Kitchen
by Jane F on July 8, 2011 in White Kitchen
There’s an art to creating an addition to an old house and aging it to look renovated rather than new. That was the goal for Bay Area architect Andrew Skurman, set out by collector Susan Dossiter, who wanted the new space added to her family’s 1905 San Francisco town house to resemble what she described [...]
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Informal Picture Wall
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Eclectic Gender-Neutral Nursery
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Sophisticated Safari Nursery
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Serious Cook’s Kitchen
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My Daughter’s Dining Room Redo
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High Tea
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Modern Designer Rugs
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Bathroom Murals
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Modern Mountain Kitchen
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Bookcase Pinboard and Laptop Niches
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