The starting point of this elegant cottage kitchen was the idea of living simply. The desire to keep it simple led interior designer Melanie Pounds and her husband to purchase a small 1920's cottage. Then Pounds designed the kitchen around their first joint purchase -- an antique worktable the couple planned to use as an island. The room is full of visually heavy pieces, yet … [Read more...]
English Victorian Kitchen
An Aga cooker set in a tiled niche is typical of the English Victorian kitchen, aBritish style we love. When I talk about an English Victorian kitchen as the inspiration for kitchens today, we need look no further for a prototype than this one by Robinson and Cornish. Begin with the imposing ivory Aga set into a deep, tiled and lighted niche with both relief tile and … [Read more...]
Victorian Cottage Kitchen
This sweet Victorian cottage kitchen is an old house dream-come-true. This skillful update of a Victorian cottage kitchen is one of the most admired kitchens we've seen. Designed to showcase the dramatic vaulted kitchen ceiling with its diamond dormer window it is, out of necessity narrow. Upper cabinets wrap around to frame the main window where a Rohl (Shaw’s) fireclay farm … [Read more...]