This kitchen makes me smile – pastel yellow is one of my favorite kitchen colors, and it certainly changes the character of the usually rugged Viking appliances, doesn’t it? I spotted this spring-like kitchen, by architect Michael Haverland in his own East Hampton home, on my fave Design Crisis blog – and while I should ...
Let’s abondon our responsibilities this afternoon – how would you like to join me on the terrace? (via) Or here – not technically a terrace, I suppose, but what a view: Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects photographed by Chiaki Yasukawa I know building codes vary from country to country, but it must be just an illusion that ...
I’m suddenly swamped (not literally – I’m not talking about leaky plumbing) in bathrooms needing remodels this week. Here a couple of beauties from my inspiration files: (in Kyoto via) While the first uses beautiful natural materials to bring the outdoors in, the second is so completely flooded with the outdoors that anything beyond the ...
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: ...
A beautiful indoor/outdoor kitchen – this “Oak & Silver” kitchen by Smallbone was part of the display awarded the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) ‘Gold Award for Excellence’ for the Best Trade Stand at 2010 Chelsea Flower Show. Well, they do have a few potted plants in there: The “alfresco” kitchen is in an Amdega orangery, ...