Dimensional tile shows best in modern kitchens flat surfaces, straight lines and integral appliances. What a joy to find a white kitchen that’s packed with ideas, a surprise or two, and a design interesting enough to be inspirational. Once again, it’s the work of HammerSmith, an Atlanta based residential design and renovation company that also produced the award-winning … [Read more...]
Industrial Mix Kitchen
This cooks + looks industrial style mixes modern and vintage French accents. As someone who wrote about food for many years, it’s difficult to resist a kitchen created for serious cooking which also gets high marks for aesthetics. It’s an unbeatable combination I don’t see often enough. Two essentials of the cooks + looks equation are great space and a generous budget. … [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...]
String Bean Color Kitchen
String bean color green painted cabinets create a singular and unforgettable NY apartment kitchen. Recently, I showed several food-green kitchens – lime, pea, green apple and mint. Green kitchen are very beautiful and their style can range from modern to cottage depending on the hue. This one is string bean color, done in an in-your-face hue by top New York designer Miles … [Read more...]
Stone and Maroon Kitchen
From ceiling to the floor, gray is pitched like an architectural symphony with a maroon accent. A modern gray kitchen with a maroon accent wall feels a bit urban for a house at the Massachusetts shore. But that's precisely what makes this kitchen interesting. A sense of place doesn't always trump the style the home owner desires. Here it is strictly architectural, Bulthaup … [Read more...]
White Wrapper Kitchen
Appliances are downplayed in this award-winning white minimalist kitchen. Designer Elaine Cecconi’s “white wrapper” is a purely minimalist kitchen and classically neutral. Defined by white horizontal and vertical surfaces that wrap both island and perimeter base cabinets it is a prize-winning galley kitchen in the annual contest sponsored by Wolf/SubZero appliances. The lone … [Read more...]
Super-White Panorama Kitchen
Unusual panorama kitchen with curved walls and views from a backsplash window. Glamorous, and nearly seamless, this super-white minimalist kitchen nestles up against the skin of a curved high-rise. The shape of the kitchen is unusual and there's an outstanding view. So instead of creating an inward-looking kitchen, the architects took advantage of the panorama to look out. … [Read more...]
Glass Door Island Kitchen
A glass door island brings the lightness of windows to the center of a classic white kitchen. Something about this kitchen makes it a perennial favorite of mine and I believe it's all the glass. Having a glass door island is so unusual. The better, of course, to show off items stored in shallow shelves facing away from the kitchen work space. While glass doors on the base of … [Read more...]
