One of the things I collect is images of kitchens that break the “rules” – and I’m especially happy if the outcome looks like a successful one: Successful, that is, from a purely aesthetic point of view. This must have been a very small and very constrained kitchen in the first place – surely otherwise ...
Some islands of serenity, because we all need a little calming influence at the start of the week, don’t we? My first is a kitchen I would so love to linger in – and it has a proper sit-down table inviting me to do just that: The cabinets, painted in Farrow and Ball’s “New White”, ...
It’s been a short and busy week chez Clarity – a holiday Monday has that effect. Here’s a lovely relaxed kitchen to make a start on the weekend: Wouldn’t that make a perfect vacation house kitchen? It sure puts me in the mood for long hot summer days – a season I can only hope ...
The true answer to how much you should spend on your kitchen cabinets, of course, is “that depends”, as my friend and wickedly amusing blogger Paul Anater wrote the other day here at Kitchen and Residential Design. I would just like to point out that it is possible to have a perfectly beautiful kitchen and ...
Simplicity – fewer cabinets, less stuff, but space to display what’s really important to you – is that the new normal for kitchen design? You know the look – a long island or peninsula separates the kitchen from the other living areas, while keeping open-ness and connection. Tall cabinets and appliances are concentrated on one ...
Not that I have anything against those lovely and talented people – indeed where would I be without some of the crazy compositions stylists come up with for interior shots of kitchens? Or the lovely ones either, now I think of it. You know some of my pet peeves – seats that could not be ...
Someone I was chatting with last week told me that some designers are advising clients against open shelves, on the grounds that unless you are professional photo stylist, your shelves are not likely to look like the just-groomed picture-perfect ones in magazines. You know, that really saddens me. Do we live in a magazine photos, ...