A gray deVol kitchen, with Shaker cabinets, blends English tradition and on-trend minimalism. Elegant and modern, this deVol kitchen was done in a dramatic dark color called Flint. It also combines traditional Shaker cabinets with an extremely simple color scheme to maximum effect. Located in a private home in central London, the attention to detail shows what makes the … [Read more...]
White Shiplap Kitchen
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...]
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...]
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...]
Refrigeration in Disguise II
An integrated paneled refrigerator can be designed to blend into a kitchen or steal the show. An integrated paneled refrigerator can be made to look like part of the kitchen's architecture. It's a necessary appliance needed but hated by many -- especially me -- because it's large, usually unattractive and it commands attention. Given a do-over, I would either hide our … [Read more...]
Tailored White Kitchen
A bright white kitchen is dominated by a French table with lyre-shape base. Atlanta Designer Suzanne Kasler worked her magic in this bright white kitchen in a wonderful coastal South Carolina Brays Island home. Keep the interiors second only to the outdoor marsh and Pocotaligo River views which are famous in the area, this kitchen is located in the "bunkie house." That is … [Read more...]
Retro Cottage Kitchen
Three shades of green worked well with the owner's dishware collections in a retro cottage kitchen. When the owner of this wonderfully fresh retro cottage kitchen bought the 19th-century house, the shelves and cabinets were a mess. She knew the kitchen needed a transformation and that green would be the color because it reflected all her collectibles. To establish a vintage … [Read more...]
Mid-Century Ranch Bath
A mid century bath in a ranch-style house gets an update with modern vanities and easy to reach storage. A house built with windows tucked just under the roof line offers uninterrupted walls. That's useful for updating a mid century bath. The western U.S., and especially Arizona, has an abundance of ranch style houses many with authentic 1950s elements like clerestory windows. … [Read more...]
Red Gingham Kitchen
A red gingham tile pattern was used like fabric in a mix typical of French country-style A fondness for French country is a clear theme in this kitchen where cherry-red and white tiles, inset with diagonal dimensional tile dots, line a large chimney niche. The niche, of course, frames a big Wolf range with signature red knobs. Red accents are also picked up in the curtains … [Read more...]
Purple Cabinet Kitchen
A French purple cabinet kitchen exudes a vibrant and youthful originality. Not long ago, finding a room painted purple in a house was one of those “what were they thinking?” moments. Now here is a purple cabinet kitchen! Often purple décor was a remnant (sometimes hidden behind wallpaper) of the psychedelic '60s, the last time violet (as the hue is properly named) was seen … [Read more...]
Greenwich Village Kitchen
Original and timeless, this Greenwich Village kitchen has salvage features to give it vintage style. Ever since I first saw these photos of a wonderful kitchen in restaurateur Brian McNally’s Greenwich Village town house I have loved every detail. Plus it's loaded with ideas: a vintage sink with integral backsplash, subway tile over the soffit and to the ceiling, antique … [Read more...]
Corner Farm Sink Kitchen
A unusual corner farm sink has takes advantage of light from greenhouse style kitchen windows. The most interesting feature in this Massachusetts country kitchen centers on the white farm sink installed in the corner. It’s an unusual placement but one that gives the user maximum light and views since the corner is all windows. The base cabinets are likely 30-inches deep … [Read more...]
Carrara Marble Backsplash Kitchen
A Carrara marble backsplash is the keynote in this renovated 1905 San Francisco kitchen. When space is tight, getting a workable kitchen takes some adjustment. Renovated in a distinctly modern industrial style, with a prominent Carrara marble backsplash, this old-house kitchen is organized along one wall kitchen with the sink and gas cooktop adjacent to each other. Usually … [Read more...]
Plain Georgian Kitchen
Plain English kitchen cabinets often have unique historical furniture details. This kitchen by the British firm Plain English was installed in a Kensington flat. It features modernized Georgian (think Chippendale) furniture details such as brass knobs and bale pulls on cabinets and drawers. The kitchen is remarkably spare, too. There are open shelves supported by small ogee … [Read more...]
