A hilarious tragi-comic post by Melody at Kitchen and Residential Design (Comfort food: fried mice) got me all nostalgic about old fashioned ranges and especially the Aga cooker. It certainly has the aura of a hunting. shooting and fishing lifestyle, you are supposed to sit round it as you plan your church fete or hunt ...
I love this post about moving into a new home from Apartment Therapy – especially the part about waiting to buy furnishings, etc. until you can afford something you really want. It reminds me of our first little house, where we lived with a plastic picnic table in our dining room at least a year. ...
Today is Sunday, and I’m working at my kitchen table as my farmers’ market chicken roasts in the oven. And I’m thinking, isn’t it a shame that the kitchen island so often replaces the table in kitchen design today? Growing up we would sit around that table doing everything from shelling peas to peeling oranges ...
Here’s a wonderful Shaker Kitchen from the UK company Plain English. Their kitchens are so gloriously austere, you’d think there’d never been a Restoration … Interesting placement of the little knobs on the island – I have no idea if the middle door tilts out, pulls out, or swings to the side. If it is ...