Kitchen Clarity

Today’s kitchen collection is all about comfortable, rustic style.  Maybe we can’t all live in a converted farm building, but we can certainly pretend we do.  I just love this combination of well-used copper, weathered wood, and functional stainless steel:

via atticmag.com

Then we have the beams, and the island, to die for – nothing matches? It’s just not meant to. And hanging a Murano glass chandelier in a barn is too perfect (via BrookeGiannetti):

Photo Architectural Digest

This Johnny Grey Studios kitchen echoes the barn aesthetic without actually being a barn at all – nobody does an unfitted kitchen like Johnny Grey. I don’t think anybody can do circles like Johnny Grey, either: (via)

Johny Grey Studios via housetohome

Now we have a contemporary kitchen, tucked into an all-cleaned-up rustic space – a nice combination, it becomes more loft than barn:

via style-files

The big trash can is handsome, but it might be just a little in the way here!

via style-files

This kitchen is a nice mixture of old and new – I’m loving the flagstones, and I’m always a sucker for a kitchen table:

photo Ray Main

This is the exterior of a refurbished stone barn in Galway, Ireland

Mark Guard Architects

and this is the kitchen it contains, apparently making no concessions at all  to its rustic setting – this might as well be in a city condo, don’t you think?

Mark Guard Architects

I’ll admit, it is possible to have too much genuine rustic character, as in this candid shot from The Selby. But if you are lucky enough to live in a barn, why not enjoy it just a little bit?

Plenty of character, via The Selby

Related Posts:

• Brought up in a barn?
• Shabby charm in the Southern Hemisphere
• The kitchen of the imagination – Johnny Grey
• A question of proportion?
• Escape fantasy

3 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

1. 

   Murano chandeliers
   February 8th, 2010 at 6:48 am #

   I love that trash bin! =)

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   donna @ dh-designs
   February 9th, 2010 at 9:43 am #

   All lovely kitchens. The modern one in the rustic looking home in Galway was a real surprise!

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   Clarity
   February 10th, 2010 at 10:21 am #

   Donna – aren’t they just! I like the mix of modern and ancient usually, but in that particular shot the ancient is totally lost.