Kitchen Clarity

Beautiful Kitchens, Beautiful Photography

Clarity — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:20:31 +0000

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:

Photo Susan Gilmore via Desire to Inspire

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 new, practicality and whimsy – I’m loving the rainbow stools and the scalloped trim at hood and island. True timelessness is difficult to achieve, but this must be pretty close to it, in a totally post-modern way.

Aga Great Escape Contest

Clarity — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:48:39 +0000

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 a contest entry online and attend an AGA Cooker Demonstration at an Aga dealership in your area by Oct. 31, 2010.

Aga Cooker

Even if you don’t win the contest, you get to learn about Aga cooking,and sample some fabulous food – how could that hurt? Read the full press release here. Enter the Great Escape Contest and register for your cooking demo here.

Upstairs, downstairs

Clarity — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:08:03 +0000

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 of available space, and creates some surprising and interesting volumes:

Tucked under - via Colour Me Happy

Traditional style, non-traditional layout - via Marie Claire Maison (I think)

A rustic loft? - via Skona Hem

Open spaces - Tim Bjorn via Desire to Inspire

Using every inch in this Cape Town Loft - via Desire to Inspire

Is the traditional enclosed staircase a thing of the past? Without modern heating and insulation, these open layouts could be horribly drafty – the separated, smaller spaces would have been much easier to keep warm. We have become used to the luxury of keeping the whole house at a comfortable temperature all year round. It’s interesting, isn’t it, how much building technology has changed the way we live our lives?

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