In a huge red barn kitchen, crimson acts as a siren call to cook and gather around the big island. A red barn kitchen, in a huge extension to an English country home, looks like a new addition to an old house -- which it is. Until you see the exterior view it’s hard to understand that the kitchen and dining space take up a majority of the "barn," which also includes a family … [Read more...]
Three Belgian Kitchens
Belgian kitchens have been highly influential because they present a beautiful lifestyle aesthetic. I’m very late to the Belgian kitchens party. Over the past six or seven years they have been shown, explained, copied and widely admired. Classic Belgian kitchens — like these by designer Joris Van Apers — led the way towards the so-called “social kitchen,” which includes a … [Read more...]
Herringbone Medallion Kitchen
Behind an Aga cooker, an elaborate niche has a herringbone subway tile medallion. Constant heat from an Aga requires a hefty wall of tile behind it. This one, in an English kitchen, has an especially handsome insert of white subway tiles set in a diagonal herringbone pattern and framed by a beaded decorative tile liner and cap molding. The medallion is set into a field of … [Read more...]
