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 ...
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, ...
How glorious to have a kitchen where you can open an entire wall and erase the boundary between inside and outside (sources here and here): Or if your walls are more solid, and therefore difficult to erase, how about French doors to fling open, inviting the outside in, or encouraging those inside to step out: Actually, this ...
Monday’s “exuburant” (thanks, Joseph!) bathroom backsplash meets yesterday’s Moroccan style - in contrast with all that ethereal Tadelakt, let’s celebrate some exuburantly tiled every-day surfaces from Morroco: So much color and pattern – the rug seems quite redundant, don’t you think? Or how about this green and white kitchen – the effect is bold and lively, ...
Back-to-school might be just around the corner, but today I fancy a little trip to Morocco – why not? While scouring the web for pictures of Moroccan kitchens, I discovered that this beautiful lime plaster is called Tadelakt – and the secrets of its traditional use have been handed down from father to son for around ...