The idea of a gold tile kitchen backsplash may sound a bit Dubai — but no! Combined with glossy black cabinets and white counters this gold tile kitchen backsplash becomes a key design element rather than a tasteful background choice. The visual irregularity of the gold-tone tile gives it the elegance and classicism of a Byzantine mosaic writ large. The kitchen design is … [Read more...]
Nate Berkus’ Greenhouse Kitchen
Glamorous but family-friendly, Nate's new black and white greenhouse kitchen is designer-smart x two. Celebrity designer Nate Berkus and his husband designer Jeremiah Brent have a stunning black and white greenhouse kitchen [top] in their newly renovated penthouse on Fifth Avenue, in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. The showstopper feature is the 17-foot long curved glass … [Read more...]
All Black Kitchen Kitchen of the Year
House Beautiful's all black Kitchen of the Year for 2014 is a 1920s San Francisco mansion with a view. Opposites attract. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the mainstream press has begun to call the kitchen color shift — from all white to all black — a trend. For bloggers like me this is hardly news. Back in March of this year, my Dark Kitchen Drama post, documented the … [Read more...]
Dark Kitchen Drama
Dark kitchen cabinets range from deep blue to black with touches of white only for accent. More and more often I’m seeing kitchens with such dark kitchen cabinets they seem designed for people with reverse lives -- like rock musicians whose days begin at 4 or 5 p.m. And the high contrast and dramatic effect of extra-dark kitchens is almost upstaging the white and black … [Read more...]
Black Steel Custom Cabinet Kitchen
In a mostly black kitchen, the cabinets and matching French range turn the black and white kitchen trend inside out. In a kitchen designed by Daniel Cuevas for a new, art-filled home in Beverly Hills, the cabinets are the key to creating the elegant luxe style. They are black and this is a black kitchen. It feels French, and just a bit Deco, but is thoroughly chic and … [Read more...]
Black Tie Kitchen
Black kitchen cabinets spark a fashionable color scheme with white accents and detailing. This historic Italianate townhouse is dressed for any occasion with black kitchen cabinets -- in its own version of the little black dress. Tailored cabinetry features beaded inset doors with white accents outlining the panels. A custom range hood also was painted pitch-black with … [Read more...]
Kitchen Cabinets Go Dark
Great light and reflective surfaces make dark kitchen cabinets and moody and surface colors look modern. While I would not choose dark rooms for my house and would never consider dark kitchen cabinets for my own kitchen, I am fascinated by their impact. What I find is that dark color moves toward us visually, whether on vertical surfaces, objects such as a sofa or even on … [Read more...]
