I’ve been collecting simple hood surrounds this last week. Here’s a sweetly traditional version, from a Spanish home outside Barcelona – I like the way the hood is integrated with the shelf, giving a single horizontal to frame the lively backsplash tile. That shelf provides much needed storage in the absence of upper cabinets: This ...
A picture of traditional perfection? Dog and all … And the kettle’s on, too – a good excuse for a tea-break . “God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world” as some insufferably smug Victorian Briton put it. (Robert Browning, to be precise, and I know, taken in context he wasn’t really being smug ...
There is an important difference between a kitchen table, and a dining table that happens to be in a kitchen. Here’s a fine kitchen table, ready to take whatever is thrown at it: As it seems to be at counter height, rather than table height, strictly speaking it might be considered more of a work ...
I haven’t really posted any Agas for a long time, which is a good enough excuse for me to share some today. I have a couple of grand ones for you – first from Kvanum, in a blue Broby kitchen: I’m not sure whether this is in a barn or an underground bunker – maybe ...
Whew, its been such a hectic beginning to the week, I haven’t had a chance to finish the well thought out and informative blog post I was working on for you . Still, it’s Tuesday, which always gives me an excuse to delve into my collection of kitchen tables: Which is your favorite? I can’t ...
Today I had the great pleasure to “meet” Tina, of the delightful blog Rubies Place, and to (metaphorically of course) visit her lovely kitchen in NSW, Australia. The kitchen the Rubies have created in their country town home is just my cup of tea. They did the design themselves, and put in a lot of ...
I’ve been poking around, virtually of course, in Northern Europe for signs of Spring. Here’s a little collection of images celebrating that special sunshine that comes when the sun is still low in the sky, and the leaves are not yet on the trees. I’ve been watching the snow melt on some of the Scandinavian ...