Wanna see my snaps of a completed kitchen project? I thought of this as the “watercolor” kitchen all through the design process: The island counter is Vetrazzo, a gorgeous earth-friendly material (more about Vetrazzo recycled counters in this earlier post), complimented by the honed absolute black granite around the perimeter of the kitchen. The backsplash ...
It’s a tiled kitchen counter and I’m loving it – and I’m sure, given the opportunity, I’d love the patina as it developed, too: An extraordinary home deserves an extraordinary kitchen – and I don’t suppose practicality was top of the requirements list here, either (ventilation, task-lighting, electrical outlets? So petit-bourgeois, my dear). Check out ...
I spent some time last week at West Coast Green in San Francisco. Fort Mason on San Francisco’s water front is always a great place for a conference: Edible gardens are brought in specifically for the conference, and attendees are encouraged to ride bikes, car pool, or take public transport to the venue. Plastic water ...
Doing some catch-up browsing in the blogosphere these last few days, I came across this rather beautiful kitchen by designer Amy Finley: I’m always a sucker for the juxtaposition of unexpected materials – so industrial stainless steel next to thick chunks of luxurious, high maintenance onyx really caught my attention. I nearly jumped out of ...
From the pages of June’s Elle Decor, the kitchen in Meg Ryan’s Martha’s Vinyard retreat. I’m so happy to see the rugged, oak kitchen table, and the dark cabinets anchoring all that white, windowy, airyness. I’m not going to mention how that chair doesn’t actually fit under the table – a not-infrequent problem when a ...