Colorful tiles create a harlequin pattern for a visually jazzy turquoise kitchen. Who said white cabinets have to be boring? Transform them into a turquoise kitchen since it's the details that matter. If anyone knows how to keep a kitchen from being bland it's Diamond Baratta Design. Their signature harlequin pattern is achieved on the range wall by turning four-inch … [Read more...]
Sheila Bridges Kitchen
New York designer Sheila Bridges has a flair for creating highly original spaces. A magazine feature on Sheila Bridges country kitchen, in the late and lamented Domino magazine, highlights several unique features. Chief among them is her “Harlem Toile de Jouy” wallpaper, a modernized print in bright yellow on her kitchen walls. As Bridges explains it the Studio Printworks … [Read more...]
Khaki Kitchen
A khaki kitchen looks ultra chic and almost historical in an elegant beach house. This khaki kitchen, by California designer Michael S. Smith, is part of a 4500 square-foot home on Martha’s Vineyard designed for a media executive and his wife who had spent many summers on the island. “A while kitchen is a beautiful idea,” Smith told Architectural Digest “but it’s just become … [Read more...]
Giant Pot Rack Kitchen
Two islands and an architectural pot rack with lighting add personality to a big white kitchen In a kitchen designed to show what high quality cabinets can provide, a large pot rack with integral lighting steals the show. The giant pot rack, suspended over the main island, includes three pendant lights in the framework. This makes for easy equipment storage, solves task … [Read more...]
Beadboard Ceiling Kitchen
High gloss white paint on beadboard creates a light-reflecting ceiling in a luminous beach house. At the beach, referencing boats seems like a logical design choice. Along with barometers and surface-mounted light fixtures in the shape of glowing portholes, there is a slickly painted beadboard ceiling that feels like an upside down ship's deck. Sand-colored tile on the floor … [Read more...]
