Summer is prime time for using a screen porch, the ultimate indoor-outdoor room. Like a gossamer cage, a screen porch encloses a space yet rarely limits it. Anyone who has spent a warm afternoon or a brisk evening in one of these airy rooms that magically exist without walls or window glass knows the joy of feeling the flow of air while enjoying the view. Naturally, the … [Read more...]
Antique Island Kitchen
An antique island stands out in a pale yellow, contemporary cottage kitchen. There’s something very neat and understated about the antique island in this East Coast country house kitchen which shows a welcome balance between warm and cool, old and new. On the warm side are the elegant pale yellow, Shaker style perimeter cabinets. Then there's the dark wood antique island with … [Read more...]
Removing Kitchen Cabinet Doors
“I kept opening and closing the kitchen cabinet doors to get dishes. I found myself grumbling about it.” My friend Christine, who’s longing to remodel her 70s kitchen, recently coined the term “anti-upperitis” to express her annoyance with kitchen cabinet doors. One special pet peeve of hers is upper kitchen cabinet storage behind closed doors. A remedy is to transform … [Read more...]