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Mise en Place: Kitchen Tool Drawer Organizers
Whenever we peruse the sites of high-end European specialist kitchen makers, we find ourselves obsessing over the elaborate built-in drawer storage systems. In fact, we like them so much that Michelle...
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Leather Pot Holders, Handmade in Maine
For the urban hipster kitchen: suede pot holders (with handy hanging loop), handmade in Union, Maine, by Patricia McDonald, a former tentmaker-turned-sewing-entrepreneur who works out of a studio where...
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Remodeling 101: Five Questions to Ask When Choosing Your Kitchen Countertops
Serving as both kitchen workhorse and showpiece, today's countertops play a demanding role. Site of all food preparation, they're expected to be durable (stain proof, scratch proof, and heat proof),...
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10 Easy Pieces: Best Budget Kitchen Faucets
When it comes to faucets, quality counts: it's the most in-demand fitting in the kitchen. For durability, look for faucets that are made of brass, and don't ignore what's under the hood. It's important...
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Meet the Modern Icebox
Perfectly situated in the corner of my Cape Cod kitchen (which you can see in our new book, Remodelista: A Manual for the Considered Home), stands the cottage's original wooden icebox. Alas, no longer...
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5 Favorites: Siphon Coffee Brewers for the Cogniscenti
A centerpiece of Blue Bottle Coffee's Mint Plaza shop in San Francisco is a siphon coffee bar that looks like something out of a steam punk science lab. Watching the coffee brew in the glass orbs is...
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The Urban Coffee Station, Space-Saving Edition
It makes sense: a built-in cabinet for stowing the coffee or espresso machine, especially in kitchens where counter space is limited. Above: A coffee station with a small pot filler in a kitchen...
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Palette & Paints: 9 Kitchen Floors Gone Green
Earlier this week, we visited Esprit founder Susie Tompkins Buell at her SF flat (see A Home at the Top of the World, San Francisco Edition); when we asked her about her affinity for the color green,...
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5 Favorites: Rugged Leather Pot Holders
Last winter, Alexa bought a couple of cobalt blue suede pot holders at March in San Francisco; I've been secretly coveting them ever since. Why are they so appealing? "They're pleasingly tactile,"...
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Rehab Diary: A Hardworking Brooklyn Kitchen by Architect Annabelle Selldorf
For a big gun architect like Annabelle Selldorf to take on a relatively modest Brooklyn kitchen remodel is almost unheard of. Selldorf, afterall, designs skyscrapers, museums, and hotels (see, for...
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Out of the Closet: 10 Kitchens with Pots on Display
Are we entering a new age of the everything-within-reach kitchen? Where dishes are stored on open shelves and pots are hung on the wall and not hidden away in drawers and cupboards? Here are 10...
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Design Sleuth: Oversized Cabinet Pulls
British interiors phenom Faye Toogood likes to play with scale in her furniture and room designs; case in point, her serene London kitchen, which features unexpectedly oversized oak cabinet pulls....
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10 Easy Pieces: Food Storage Containers
With Thanksgiving upon us, we're already thinking about the cleanup, and the fact that everyone's food storage containers will be seeing high traffic over the next few months. So we decided to host a...
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5 Favorites: In-Counter Compost Solutions
Confession: I am a reluctant composter. I know, I know. My impulse is to scrape the dinner plates into the sink, whirl the disposal, and be done with it. I do have a stainless compost bucket under the...
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Gift Guide: For the Foodie
Foodies tend to be a tad fanatical—a sweeping generalization, I realize, but having had to find gifts for several such friends, one that I can attest to. Here's a roundup of gifts that will please the...
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5 Favorites: Traditional Cast Iron Skillets
There’s little you can’t make (or bake) with a 10-inch cast iron skillet, and if you look after it properly (season it regularly), cast iron cookware will last you a lifetime and beyond. Here are five...
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Behind the Scenes: 5 Design Lessons from Julianne Moore
On a sunny morning last spring, our team—including photographer Matthew Williams, Francesca Connolly (carrying great bundles of leafy branches), and me with my notepad—arrived on the doorstep of...
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Revived: The National Flatware of Denmark
The mention of a classic Danish modern flatware design being revived instantly got us salivating. Apparently, Matthew Orlando, until recently head chef at Noma, reacted the same way; the cutlery was...
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Steal This Look: An Anglo-Inspired Kitchen in Gothenburg, Sweden
We recently took note of the character-filled, neo-retro kitchen of Swedish blogger Catarina Skoglund via her site, Another Side of Life. Cattie and her husband, Robert, and their daughter, Stella,...
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8 Rustic Wood-Clad Vent Hoods
Noticed lately: Kitchen vent hoods made rustic with the addition of wood facing. Here are eight appealing examples: Above: A house in Itami, Japan, with a wood range hood by Tato Architects, via...
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