Orange kitchen cabinets are muy caliente thanks to a great paint color and some very cool tile. Questions about paint color can dominate any discussion – color is that powerful. In the case of this bold and original kitchen, color is topic number one. The beautiful inset orange kitchen cabinets with concealed hinges are painted in Benjamin Moore Aura Salsa Dancing. The walls … [Read more...]
Lemon Yellow Kitchen
It takes conviction to go bold in a lemon yellow kitchen but wow, does it pay off. Shining with personality from top to bottom this vibrant and unforgettable lemon yellow kitchen ranks as one of the greats. There’s nothing safe about the color choice for the cabinets and backsplash yet the pairing has perfect pitch because of the way color is used. But let’s get real. It … [Read more...]
Stainless Steel Range Niche
A balance of details creates a successful stainless steel range niche with a classically modern look. Sometimes less is more. On the other hand, sometimes more is better. That's the case with this stainless steel range niche. It's not unusual to see a sheet of stainless used for the cooking area backsplash -- something architect Ken Linsteadt often does, as we showed in … [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...]
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...]
Hydrangea Colors Kitchen
Inspiration from the garden found its way inside with blue kitchen counters and purple tile. I never thought I’d swoon over a kitchen with nature wood-tone cabinets, lavender tile and blue-violet counters. But this is one knockout babe, done up in summer florals that read from cobalt to lavender – a homage to the range of colors found in hydrangeas. Clearly this Massachusetts … [Read more...]
Hollywood Legend Kitchen
Even a long-dead movie star like Hollywood legend Errol Flynn can distinguish a house. At some point, Hollywood legend Errol Flynn, the star of film classics like 1935's "Captain Blood" and 1938's "Robin Hood," lived in this 4500-square foot, 1926 Mediterranean style, hillside home in the Hollywood Hills. The house has an 18 x 21-foot kitchen plus a panoramic city view from … [Read more...]
More Inspired Design Showhouse
Tour part two of the Inspired Design showhouse celebrating extraordinary women A large amount of space has been devoted to the Inspired Designs Showhouse here in New York City. It features two apartments full of rooms — nearly 10,000 square feet — created by 15 top designers as a benefit for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, founded by Evelyn H. Lauder. Each room was … [Read more...]
Inspired Design Showhouse
Tour the Inspired Designs showhouse in NYC with rooms dedicated to extraordinary women. Move over Kip’s Bay. A group of 15 premier New York interior designers combined talents in a unique showhouse event to launch a new condominium building on West End Avenue, a street that hasn’t changed so much in 30 years or perhaps longer. As it happens it’s in my neighborhood, … [Read more...]
Old Piano Kitchen
In a historic NY mansion, Victorian antiques and an old piano stand in for kitchen cabinets. A young N.Y. designer, Kohle Yohannan, fell in love with Greystone Court, a wreck of an old house in Yonkers, NY, bought it and then spent years fixing it up to rent out as a photo and film location. Meanwhile, he lives there. So while it's a house with a history, it's also a … [Read more...]
Ivette’s Cherry Counter Kitchen
Our pal Ivette's English style, cherry counter kitchen has it all. And, it's a DIY too! Cherry has just enough color to warm up this elegant white cherry counter kitchen, which was a DIY labor of love by a talented couple, my friends Ivette and Joel. The counters were stained, sanded and repeatedly oiled by Ivette to give them a satiny sheen, then set off by big … [Read more...]
