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Small-Space Living: A Low-Cost Cabin Kitchen for a Family of Five
When designer/blogger Carmella Rayone McCafferty's family of five left Port St. Lucie, Florida, for rural Wyoming three years ago, they needed to find a place to live. Unable to afford land and without...
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15 Ideas to Steal from Vintage Kitchens
Sometimes we're so busy looking into the future that we forget to revisit the greatest hits of the past. Here are 15 ideas from old-fashioned kitchens worth incorporating into your own setup. Above: An...
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Manufacture de Digoin: A Classic Loire Valley Pottery Revived
Corinne Jordan Gros, a former marketing and communications specialist, has been fascinated—make that obsessed—by traditional French manufacturing for a while (she even wrote a book called The French...
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10 Easy Pieces: Classic Teakettles
According to psychologist Barry Schwartz, the secret to happiness is having less to choose from. In his book The Paradox of Choice (Harper Perennial), Schwartz describes how choice ultimately leads to...
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Remodeling 101: Five Questions to Ask When Choosing a Kitchen Backsplash
When it comes to selecting kitchen backsplash materials, the abundance of options is daunting. As with the perfect outfit, a backsplash depends on the other pieces in the ensemble—notably the...
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Before & After: A Galley Kitchen Reinvented
Creative director Jakob Daschek is Swedish, fashion stylist Barbara Abbatemaggio is Italian, and their overhauled NYC kitchen, designed by architect Lauren Wegel, an Annabelle Selldorf protégé, caters...
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Cloth Coffee Filters: Less Waste and Better Taste?
So you've found your perfect coffeemaker and mastered the ideal grind, but what about the filter? Until my recent stop at Verve Coffee Roasters in Santa Cruz, I thought the only options were paper or...
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Classic Swedish Shelving, Kitchen Edition
Building on more than half a century of success, String, the innovative modular shelving series from Sweden, has expanded into furniture. Originally designed in 1949 by Swedish architect Nils...
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Steal This Look: Hotel Covell's Glamorous Kitchenette
Yesterday, we checked in at LA's buzzing new Hotel Covell designed by Sally Breer of Co-Mingle. We're particularly taken with the playful, glam-retro vibe of the kitchenette in Suite 5, known as The...
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Remodeling 101: The Viking vs. Wolf Range
The offerings in professional-style ranges for the home kitchen have multiplied over the years, but two of the standard bearers still reign: Viking and Wolf. Similar in price points, features, and...
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Before/After: A Cool and Confident Kitchen in LA by Project M+
Busy professionals with two young kids, attorney Liz Flynn and sports marketer Craig Howe lived in their 1927 stucco bungalow in LA's Silver Lake for eight years before "pulling the trigger" on a...
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Award-Winning German Glass for the Kitchen
Lately we've all been obsessed with German heat-resistant kitchen glass (Margot just bought the glass water kettle as a gift). German chemist Otto Schott, son of a window maker, developed...
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Steal This Look: A Low-Key Kitchen in South Africa
Casual elegance via a limited palette of black, white, rough-hewn wood, and glass vessels. Here's how to get the look. Above: A kitchen in South Africa by Casa Doreen design consultant via Homestories....
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Kitchen of the Week: An Artful Aerie in Mill Valley
After 14 years of living with their 1960s kitchen, a Mill Valley, California, couple—she's an archaeologist, he's a fitness program manager, and they have two young daughters—turned to a team of...
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Decoding BTUs: How Much Cooking Power Do You Really Need?
The last time I bought a new gas range was over a decade ago. I was lured (and somewhat intimidated) by the upper echelon of professional-style ranges with their 12,000 BTUs of cooking power....
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13 Favorite Minimalist British Kitchens
In recent months, we've seen the term "minimalism" increasingly diluted with each passing pin, social post, and tweet. One person's minimal is clearly another's cluttered nightmare, and plenty of...
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Trend Alert: 5 Minimalist Graphic Ceramic Tiles
Spotted lately: tiles so subtly patterned they require a second look. Above: Brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec say their Pico Tile for Mutina has a "matte finish with a sensual surface feel. With its...
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All in the Family: Antonio Aricò's Rustic Kitchen Designs Made by His...
Milan-based furniture and product designer Antonio Aricò has sawdust in his blood: He grew up in Reggio Calabria, in southern Italy, hammering together his first creations at the knees of his carpenter...
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Kitchen of the Week: The Ultimate Indoor-Outdoor Kitchen
The recipe for how to double a kitchen: Add a wall of folding glass doors, and then blend a terrace and garden into the mix. The owners of a semidetached Victorian in Dulwich, in south London, tried it...
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Kitchen of the Week: Eclectic English Kitchen, Color Included
Meet the state-of-the-art kitchen that doesn't take itself too seriously. Situated in a timber-clad new addition to a farmhouse in Kent, England, the design—from playful reverse-peaked ceiling to...
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