Someone I was chatting with last week told me that some designers are advising clients against open shelves, on the grounds that unless you are professional photo stylist, your shelves are not likely to look like the just-groomed picture-perfect ones in magazines. You know, that really saddens me. Do we live in a magazine photos, or ...
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Oh, the seventies – I’m pretty sure my parents had these exact same curtains: Actually, I’m pretty sure my sister and I got to wear that fabric, upcycled into “midi” skirts, once it’s kitchen duty was done. I have no record of where I found this image – please help me identify it if you can. Related Posts:Shabby ...
Is it just me, or does this room have the ambience of an aircraft hangar? Wait a minute, I’ve seen something very like those light fixtures somewhere else, now where was it? I’m pretty sure the next thing to happen looks something like this: Well, now we know what all the space is for. That would cetainly enliven ...
Caught sight of this on Remodelista today – apparently the bucket is for handy storage of bathroom items: Silly me, I took it for an extremely low tech flushing mechanism. I wouldn’t like to be in range if that thing really got swinging – galvanized buckets are pretty hard and unforgiving. Related Posts:On words – a woman’s ...
Here’s another kitchen alien, snaking down from the ceiling while the cook’s back is turned: I know, I do tend to anthropomorphize, just a bit, but look – it’s already slurped up whatever was cooking in that white pot. I’d keep the lid tight on the other one, or there’ll be no dinner. Seriously, is that articulating ...
There was a time when this kitchen seemed to pop up everywhere. I never really understood what made it such a star – although it has plenty of features that should make it one of my favorites, like the big white Aga, open shelves, warm wood counters, and a stripped down industrial-meets-country vibe: The trouble ...