This article in Great Homes and Destinations at the New York Times caught my eye today. It features a contemporary home near Salzburg in Austria, with 6 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms, yours for a mere 890,000 euros, approximately $1.3 million dollars. The house was designed according to the principles of Feng Shui – so should ...
I came across this this rustic kitchen in Spain the other day – quite frightening, isn’t it? Okay, I know, diagonals make a space more dynamic. I think it’s working - I’d be in no danger at all of falling asleep in there. (via) I understand, different strokes for different folks, but this is in ...
This kitchen in an L.A. Craftsman home was posted on The Kitchn this week, from one of Apartment Therapy’s house tours, accompanied, of course, by the requisite oohs and aahs about the great kitchen. Hmm. Now I really do like that they kept the craftsman cabinets, and especially the cream, pink and gray color scheme. ...
This is one frightening kitchen, and no, not because of the color. It’s that cooktop that scares me: What is it, 2 inches from the end of the peninsula, and 0 inches from the back? Yikes! And set in a specially lowered counter, too. Even if it’s induction, so cool to the touch, the contents ...
If there’s anything worse than the microwave over the range, it has to be the microwave almost over the range. Sometimes I’m amazed at the half-baked design people are willing to put up with. I’m not going to name the source, in order to protect the guilty. Related Posts:Nicely Placed MicrowaveA pretty kitchen makeover, butMicrowave ...
OK, it’s a bit harsh to call this a calamity, but it always bothers me when the backsplash tile just stops, with no real boundary to give it a reason to stop. I know the top of the backsplash above is designed to end at the bottom of the hood – but wouldn’t it have ...
Sometimes, the ordinary way to do the lighting is ordinary because, well, it works. Why would anybody want to have these excrescences instead of regular under-cabinet fluorescent strips or pucks? It is clear from the bright spots on the counter and the cones on the wall that these don’t even do the job particularly well. ...