This Copper Shade light by Tom Dixon just seems to be popping up in every kitchen I look at this last couple of weeks. First, and most unexpectedly, in this Swedish Arts & Crafts Villa: I can understand the attraction – it is contemporary, it’s retro, it’s warm, and with its reflective surface it’s as ...
Here’s a gorgeous piece of eye-candy: task lighting and drop-dead gorgeous focal point in one. (Found here). You’d have to keep up with your dusting and polishing, but I think it would be well worth it. At first glance I thought this was Artemide’s Nur Pendant, but on reflection (sorry) it’s the wrong shape and ...
Here is my top ten list of mistakes to avoid when designing your new kitchen. Actually these are just my Top Ten Kitchen Design Crimes for today – ask me tomorrow and I might have ten completely different ones for you. And now I’ve written the list, I realize that each item could easily be ...
How about some ethereal white and gray kitchens for today - usually calm and and refreshing, always sophisticated. Just what we need to calm us down as “back-to-school” encroaches on the heat of summer. The texture of the tiny brick-pattern mosaic in the backsplash is the perfect foil to the glossy white cabinets and the ...
I’m still reflecting on selecting the right focal point for your kitchen design. Here is a clean and simple contemporary kitchen, but doesn’t your eye go straight to the oven? Is that what the designer wanted? Are they really that proud of the wall oven? It’s not that I don’t like ovens, I think they’re ...
I spent this morning with a new client, discussing possible kitchen layouts. One of the many things we touched on was a suitable focal point for the design. So when I came across this picture I just had to comment – is the oven really what the designer wanted to emphasise here? There might be ...