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...]
Antique Gray Hutch Kitchen
The French gray hutch in a wall of new cabinets is one trick of the trade used in this soft palette kitchen. Many from the kitchen obsessed crowd would start buying for their dream kitchen with a French range. But the first purchase for designer Samantha Lyman and her client was the pair of vintage Dutch ship lights for her kitchen. The large scale vintage pieces are copper … [Read more...]
Cement Tile Kitchen
Rich green cabinets and a unique, patterned cement tile floor create an inviting place for family and guests. Inspired by green doors while traveling in Argentina, Ramin Shamshiri, founding partner of Commune Design, tested 33 paint samples before signing off on the cabinet color in this Spanish-style home. The winner was a deep green from Fine Paints of Europe. Normally, the … [Read more...]
Serious Cook’s Kitchen
How a retired chef created a serious cook's kitchen with great storage and two amazing sinks. When Care Morgenstern set out to create the kitchen of her dreams in a 80's house in the California wine country, she thought about all the “crappy kitchens” she’d had to put up with over the years. “Function was my primary goal,” Morgenstern says. “I hoped that it would look nice but … [Read more...]
Driftwood Kitchen
This subdued driftwood gray feels masculine -- like the kitchen equivalent of a flannel suit. Can a driftwood gray kitchen be gender specific? Or would it always be neutral? For me, this gray kitchen has a definite masculine feeling. Perhaps it's the sheer beefiness of all the upper and lower cabinets packed in below the soffit line. Or, perhaps it's the gray-washed cabinets … [Read more...]
Seafoam Island Kitchen
This seafoam blue island is built like a deep table with plumbing for a prep sink shielded by the legs The heart of this white kitchen is the seafoam blue island-on-legs which helps maximizes the look of the central space since it doesn't sit solidly on the floor. A different counter material on each end helps break up the island visually. The small prep sink is set under a … [Read more...]