Unfitted kitchens swap built-in cabinetry for informal cottage charm. It is no secret I love unfitted English kitchens. Using actual furniture or furniture style pieces in the room makes it so less kitchen-like, a welcomed idea in open-concept floor plans. This example is from Smallbone of Devizes and typical of high-end unfitted English kitchens. The freestanding sink with … [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...]
Romantic Stone Kitchen
Romantic and vintage, this stone kitchen is so seductive. When do we move in? Sigh. The romance of a stone kitchen is preserved here by moving a kitchen into a room with vintage stone walls and floor but not making the space kitchen-y in the traditional sense. Minimizing the look of a kitchen starts with having no built in cabinets. There's a large hutch on the main wall for … [Read more...]
