One interpretation of the post-culinary kitchen is a kitchen that completely vanishes when you don’t need it. Not a single appliance or even a utensil to disturb your perfect living space: There are definitely days when a big up-and-over door would be useful to hide the debris left by my culinary endeavors – this one ...
I just came across the Beautiful Kitchens blog, an offshoot of the UK magazine of the same name. I’m borrowing a couple of pictures here, showing a neat solution to those pesky ovens and other appliances that clutter up your lovely clean cabinet runs: It’s not every kitchen that needs to hide appliances behind a ...
Is it a problem if your kitchen looks better with the cabinet doors open than it does with them closed? Not that there’s anything horribly wrong with this – clean lines, glossy white and stainless steel, it has all the hallmarks of a classic modern kitchen: But it is telling that in order to make ...
I came across this charming little place on the interwebs a few months ago – it’s in a home converted from a turn of the century store in Port Melbourne, Australia. Everything looks as though it has been well-loved for generations. The kitchen almost looks as if they made that peninsula out of orange crates, ...
Here we go, another wonderful word for Wednesday. I absolutely love those gloriously worn floor tiles, and the battered cabinet as island is delicious. But finding an old shop sign doesn’t mean you have to put it in your kitchen: If a completely random word with no apparent relationship to anything in the kitchen weren’t ...
Here’s and interesting concept for a kitchen – not only portable and compact, but completely collapsible too – the work of Burkhard Schäller, the Magdelena Gravity kitchen exhibited at the Talents section at Ambiente 2010 Consumer Goods Fair in Frankfurt (via) I guess you are in serious trouble here if your utensils happen to be a ...
I’ve been frying my brain all weekend working on grant applications for my favorite non-profit organization, so I can barely string two words together right now. But it hasn’t escaped my notice that Spring has been springing energetically outside my window, with pairs of birds and squirrels and blossoms everywhere. Seems as good an excuse ...