I absolutely love the look of this bookshelf. Don't you? A one-stop-shop bookshelf like this is helpful for a number of reasons: the top half is great for storing cookbooks, dishes, and serving ware, while the small cubby drawers on the bottom are perfect for flatware, utensils, linens, and other kitchen miscellanea. More

Apartment Therapy's Room for Color contest is going on right now, and while we love checking out all the rooms, naturally we gravitate to the kitchen entries. The contest is organized around the type of palette used - warm, cool, light or dark. If you're afraid of color or don't know how to successfully bring it into your kitchen, this is a perfect way to gather inspiration and boost your color confidence! More

What makes a $2,000 kitchen renovation different from a $62,000 renovation? That may sound like a ridiculous question, but the premise is intriguing: take a tiny rental kitchen in Brooklyn, bring in a few expert opinions, and get three different renovation proposals that run the gamut on price. That's what one NYT writer did, and it's such an interesting look at the why and how of small kitchen renovations. More

If you've already renovated a kitchen or are just beginning the process, you know how overwhelming the details can be. Our Fittings and Material Spotlights are quick guides to basic kitchen fixtures to familiarize you with terminology, pros and cons, and relevant reader reviews. Today we look at kitchen cabinets. What are the differences between stock, semi-custom, and custom kitchen cabinets?
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Emily's cozy home is full of her own creative projects, and the shiplap wall in her dining room is one great example. As she tells Apartment Therapy, she loved the texture and interest that the paneling brought to her bedroom, so she "went wild" and also installed it in the dining room! She says "it's warm, easy to install, and an affordable way to dramatically transform a drab space into a primary accent wall." More

Dining rooms are a place to get dramatic. They're often used for entertaining and they're a room where we might take risks we would't dare elsewhere. That's where eggplant comes in. It might a a vegetable (a fruit, actually), but it's also a dark, rich, sexy color that would make a bold statement in the dining room: More

Bi-color cabinets are a growing trend, but this example does something a little unusual: they extend the black color up the wall, and even paint right over the lower part of the cream cabinet for a very clear-cut light/dark line. An unusual choice, don't you think? Would you do it this way? See another photo below:

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Are you familiar with the French range maker company La Cornue? If not, allow us to introduce you to something that will inevitably haunt your dreams for the foreseeable future. These showstopping ranges are always the focal point of any kitchen they're in. How could they not be? The design, the colors, the richness and elegance of the whole thing. But at $8,000 a pop, they're clearly not for the budget-inclined. Ah well. It's the stuff dreams are made of. More

I'll be the first to admit that I'm horrible about meal planning. Thirty minutes before dinner, I find myself in a panic defrosting meat I forgot to thaw, or rushing out to pick up an ingredient that slipped my mind. You know what I think would help those of us who are challenged by meal planning? Having the week planned out, written down, and right before your eyes, and in a way that looks good, too!. That's where these chalkboards come in. Check out the inspiration and tell me this wouldn't help you to stay on top of the meal planning at your house!: More

Bar carts made a big comeback in recent years as people took to keeping their liquor out in the open. But if that's not your thing, here's another use for them: a mobile storage place for dishes and kitchen tools! More