Gift Guide: Juicing Essentials
Juicing can be intimidating; when words like centrifugal and oxidation are applied, we start to shy away. We prefer to keep things simple and easy. Start with an affordable juicer and some fruit and...
View ArticleSan Francisco's Best Kitchen Shop—Now Online
March, the kitchen and pantry shop in San Francisco's Pacific Heights, has a permanent position on the favorites list here at Remodelista. Thanks to the curation of owner Sam Hamilton, it presents...
View ArticleDIY: Winter Market Punch Recipe from Sweets & Bitters
For our first-ever Remodelista Market in New York last month, we asked Mira Evnine of the quarterly cookbook series Sweets & Bitters to create an opening-party holiday drink. She came up with this...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Simple Kitchen Clocks
Is it just us, or is a kitchen not a real kitchen without an easy-to-read classic clock to keep everyone on schedule? Here's a roundup of kitchen clocks; all with quartz-battery mechanisms. Above: The...
View ArticleTrash Bins from a Cleanliness-Obsessed Nation
It makes sense, doesn't it, that the cleanliness-obsessed Swiss would produce the world's best-looking trash receptacle? And offer it in several guises (including a stool-height bin with a felted wool...
View ArticleSteal This Look: A Spanish-Inspired Black and White Kitchen
In her overhaul of a Portland, OR, kitchen in a 1926 Mediterranean-style building, designer Jessica Helgerson took inspiration from the building itself, called, appropriately enough, the Alhambra. But...
View Article15 Life-Changing Storage Ideas for the Kitchen
If you've perused Pinterest lately in search of kitchen storage ideas, you know there are thousands of space-saving tricks floating around. Here's a roundup of our current favorites (we're filing them...
View ArticleSuperfront: An Instant Upgrade for Ikea Cabinets
Remember Bemz, the slipcover company that lets you revamp an ordinary Ikea sofa? Well, this time it's all about the cabinet hardware: Superfront allows you to upgrade your run-of-the-mill Ikea cabinets...
View ArticleBritish Roots: Hampson Woods' Curvy Handled Serving Boards
When a tree falls in the UK, there's a good chance that Jonty Hampson and Sascha Gravenstein are in their dusty East London workshop sculpting it. Jonty, a carpenter and cabinet maker, and Sascha, a...
View ArticleIron Man, Jasper Morrison
Jasper Morrison's shop in London's Shoreditch is easy to miss. Hidden in a courtyard off a main road, it sits beside the British designer's studio and houses both his own designs as well as global...
View Article10 Favorites: Rustic Open Shelving in the Kitchen
Interior designer Suzanne Shaker has my dream kitchen: a simple, sun-lit, clutter-free space with one long wooden shelf running across the wall above the sink. It's the addition of the wood in the...
View ArticleA Cut Above: Serving Pieces with a Star Following
On a recent trip to Garde in LA (a must-stop on any design lover's list), I admired a line of chunky cutting boards made by The Wooden Palate, and discovered via the Huffington Post that Jennifer...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Instant Kitchen Islands
Do you have a smallish kitchen? Or maybe you're on the fence about work islands (think they're too suburban?). Here are 10 low-commitment, problem-solving options, ranging in price from $250 to Don't...
View ArticleAn Apron for Everyone from Hedley & Bennett in LA
"Who doesn't need an apron?" asks Ellen Bennett. "A potter, a painter, a cook, you name it." After a stint in Mexico City where Bennett attended culinary school, she worked as a cook at Providence, a...
View ArticleSteal This Look: Creative Color in a Dutch Kitchen
There’s an elegant insouciance that we admire in this kitchen in the Netherlands by Dutch textile designer Hellen van Berke, especially in the nonchalant way the colors come together. After graduating...
View ArticleThe Last Trash Bin You'll Ever Buy
Designed by Frédéric Périgot for Rossignol, the French manufacturer of ski and snowboard equipment, the Frisbee Trash Bin is a sleek column of color for the kitchen. An industrial designer, Périgot...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: The Best Woks
Remember the wok fad of the late 1970s, when hip households were stir-frying up a storm? (I may be dating myself.) The good news is that the virtues of the wok have made it a kitchen mainstay. A wok is...
View ArticleDesign Sleuth: The Porcelain Funnel
My husband and I are collectors of curiosities, in particular art, books, ceramics, well, pretty much any rare attractive object we happen to come by. On a recent trip to a neighborhood estate sale, we...
View ArticleSteal This Look: An Architect's Tiny Kitchen in Dublin
When Moscow-born architect Ekaterina Voronova relocated to Dublin, Ireland, she needed a home office in addition to guest quarters—two luxuries that, in a small space, are often mutually exclusive. In...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Compact Refrigerators
Years after my college dorm days I never thought I'd be considering a mini refrigerator. But when my former Santa Monica apartment kitchen called for creative measures to allow for a breakfast nook, a...
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