The outdoors has much to recommend it — water, sky, woods, mountains! A break from technology and your noisy neighbor! — but it doesn't come equipped with a kitchen. No, you have to bring that yourself if you venture out into the wild and plan on doing your own food prep. You could totally rough it, of course, but if you'd like a little help with food storage, organization, and cleanup, then one of these five camp kitchens is a worthwhile purchase.

Teruko's kitchen renovation is one of the most colorful we've seen! This Culver City, California kitchen was dark and outdated before, but after adding three skylights, a large window, and an incredible Mexican tile wrap-around mosaic, this kitchen is now a bright, colorful, one-of-a-kind space. See the transformation below:

Clé is a tile lover's dream. This online tile store specializes in unique, artistic tiles —they have a whole Artist Series featuring small-batch tiles from a curated selection of artisans, designers, and sculptors — as well as tiles they deem "design classics." It's a lovely collection overall, with some very unusual designs and textures, including tiles that resemble wood grain ends, and tiles made from recycled stainless steel!

This Austin kitchen beautifully blends a mix of materials and textures, like concrete, wood, stainless steel, and marble. Love the look? Want to emulate some of it in your own kitchen? Here are sources to help you get the look. If you recognize other elements in the kitchen, please fill in the blanks in the comments! See another photo below:

Are you planning a getaway this summer? I just moved, alas, so my summer will probably be spent setting up my new place. Since I won't be escaping to the country anytime soon, I went searching for a little vacation inspiration — a little cabin inspiration, to be exact. 

Jewelry-designer Alison Macleod loves beautiful things, both old and new, and her two-bedroom Glasgow flat is filled with collected objects that tell a story — in fact, Alison says her friends are always intrigued "by all of [the] bits and bobs" around the apartment, including in the kitchen! 

How do you store your cookbooks? Everyone is different, as we've seen before, but I think this cookbook storage solution — facing out, like at a bookstore — is a little more unusual than most. What do you think?

If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area this weekend, there is one destination that needs to be on your list: Sunset Magazine's Celebration Weekend. This is the one time in the year when Sunset Magazine goes all out: transforming empty rooms into beautiful designer kitchens and workspaces, plumping their gardens into brilliance, and inviting vendors from all over the West Coast to show us their goods. I got to sneak a peek at what's in store for lucky visitors this weekend — take a look!

When I was first settling into my kitchen, I quickly realized that drawer space was at such a premium that I would not have room for an in-drawer knife block (my number one choice for knife storage). Ditto goes for the countertop. So I purchased a magnetic knife rack. But when it came time to hang it up, I faced, well, a bit of a hangup:

Theodore and Matthew's design style is a mix of "laid back Hamptons and California ease" — which is very much on display in their Hollywood Hills cottage. The whole home is inviting and cozy, but the kitchen is particularly enticing if you're a fan of the open shelving look, because this couple knows how to do it right!