There were some gorgeous kitchens featured on Desire to Inspire yesterday – the work of photographer Susan Gilmore. I wish I knew who the kitchen designer is: This kitchen does a brilliant job of mixing contemporary and traditional elements to create a space that is completely current. A great balance of warm and cool, old and ...
Have you registered for the Aga Great Escape contest yet? The prize, sadly, is not an Aga cooker, but you could win a three-day, all-expense-paid trip for two to the Carolinas and Georgia, including cooking classes, home tours and lunch with a celebrity cookbook author. To enter, you just have to fill out ...
Well, just downstairs, really. Kitchens are so often part of open and connected living spaces these days. In older homes, this often means walls have to be removed, and new connections created between areas that were previously separate. Removing the traditional hallway and allowing the staircase to become part of the kitchen makes great use ...
An unusual job opening caught my eye in this weekend – I think I’ve mentioned before that as a child my ambition was to be a lighthouse keeper (probably an escape fantasy spawned by being part of a large, close-in-age family), so the idea of manning the historical East Brother Light Station in San Francisco ...
There’s nothing quite like a real shower out in the open (and I don’t mean the rainy kind): Outdoor laundry is good, too, and good for the planet: I’ll volunteer to watch it drying, if you like. Related Posts:The House of the SunSunday GetawayTub with a viewInviting, at all?A sustaining shower ...
Whew, it’s a little cooler here today. Sad, really, that our first really hot spell of the summer chose to coincide exactly with “back-to-school” time. It doesn’t seem quite fair that the poor kids have to go back before Labor Day, does it? If you are still sweltering, here’s a fun kitchen image to cool ...
I learned a new word today – muratura. Well, OK, muratura is Italian for masonry, so if I was fluent in Italian, it would not be nearly so new. Such a lovely word to describe this traditional kitchen style, where the cupboards, drawers and shelves are set into masonry elements, sometimes decorated with ceramic tile, ...