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 ...
One of the things I collect these days is kitchens where the range is under the window. I love the idea of cooking with a view. Although this is perhaps not all that much of a view, sun and shade moving on those rocks would be more inspiring, and certainly more varied, than most backsplash ...
I guess it must because I’m contrary by nature – I love to see ranges under windows, just because we are so often told that is the one place they should never be. A good reason for never saying never – this Oxfordshire kitchen. The two windows frame the hood nicely, the ventilation is placed ...
Sometimes I wonder, did someone really design that? I hope they weren’t paid too highly. What do you think about these little windows? They’re fine, aren’t they, in a kitchen where there’s no room for a real window, as a way to let light in between upper cabinets and the counter. But why would you ...
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 ...