When does a common object in your kitchen become art? Over the past 10 years appliance brands from Italy, Canada, and the USA have been exploring the production of major appliances in bright colorful hues. Over the last two years, the popularity of these appliances has really blossomed. Major design house Dolce & Gabbana collaborated…
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” T.S. Eliot, Poet, essayist, and writer This morning I drank my first cup of coffee in three weeks. These last three weeks coffee has been almost a constant argument floating around in my head. The reason it has been just an argument with my internal monologue…
Appliances might be more intelligent, efficient, and feature-packed than ever, but that doesn’t mean they’re grabbing the spotlight in today’s kitchen.
The library sets the mood, it’s a distillation of everything that goes on in the house.
More and more, kitchens are incorporating dining rooms and sitting rooms into a unified space.
As my title suggests, possibly more subtly than I would like is that a bathroom at times needs a bit more pretty than the utilitarian washrooms of the past. Furniture style vanities are hardly just for powder rooms anymore. Designing a bathroom that looks more like furniture than a typical bathroom vanity. Have fun with…
The built-in has been a staple in homes around the world for decades. The term, built-in encapsulates endless use and design elements combined to create a permanent piece of furniture. They are both grand and understated and even a single built-in can communicate an enormous amount of style. Although, they can seem a bit traditional, I am…
The word banquette is a mystery to most folks, historically a banquette refers to a fortification, a small foot path or elevated step along the inside of a rampart, by which the musketeers get up to view the exterior wall of the ditch in a fortification, or to fire on the enemies in the moat. These are generally a foot and a…
[houzz=http://www.houzz.com/photos/607038/Crisp-Architects-traditional-kitchen-new-york] As you flip through the glossy pages of home decorating magazines, scroll through Pinterest’s “Home Decor” pinboard, or troll Houzz at 3AM your thoughts remain basically the same…I love that, I want that, I need that, but the kitchen remodeling project looks way too; expensive, time-consuming, or daunting. Where do you start? I want to…