With white shiplap walls and an unusual layout, this weekend home kitchen is full of surprises. Shiplap is the theme of this stunning white kitchen in an Alabama lake house. Designed by Tracery Interiors’ Paige Sumblin Schnell, the painted, 6-inch horizontal wooden planks, also called shiplap, are often associated with barns and sheds. Here, they become a highly effective wall … [Read more...]
Pantry Pride
18 pantry ideas for kitchens that function as great as they look. Walk-in kitchen pantries began making a comeback in the late 1990's and pantry ideas are now one of the most requested kitchen features. But many of today's homeowners expect more from their pantries than just "a place for everything, and everything in it's place" space. From dry foods and canned goods, to … [Read more...]
French Checkerboard Kitchen
Checkerboard tile, worked two ways, creates black and white visual "wow". A top European designer, the late Alberto Pinto, pushed the black and white checkerboard tile theme to the max in his own Parisian penthouse kitchen. Large-scale black and white tile, worked in a staggered pattern is used on the entire sink wall (right) all along the range wall (left) and in the butler's … [Read more...]
Canadian Stone Mansion Kitchen
A historic stone mansion kitchen has exposed brick walls, stone floor, and a big black La Cornue. Wow. The charm of a stone mansion kitchen cannot be understated. Even at 16 x 14-feet, the kitchen at Maus Park, a stately historic home near Toronto, is impressive. Built from local Canadian stone in the 1850s, and owned by an antique dealer, it has a definite Franco-rustic, … [Read more...]
Great White Kitchen
In an American manor house, a white kitchen has exceptional glass-door cabinets In a house with exceptionally large spaces it's often necessary to define the way each is used. That's true in this jumbo white kitchen where an imposing see-through, glass-door upper cabinet is used as a screen between the breakfast room and working area of the kitchen. Interior … [Read more...]
