Apartment Therapy: Linens

Fun Entertaining: Chalkboard Tablecloths

Children's art canvas by day; edgy modern party accessory by night! We saw these chalkboard tablecloths and immediately saw their potential in party situations. Imagine a wine tasting with the names o...

Ugly Kitchen Floor? Change It with a Floor Cloth

One of the biggest complaints, and hardest things to change, about a rental kitchen is the floor. When you own a kitchen you can put down new tile or wood floors — but even then you may not wa...

Loving: Eat At Home Dishtowel

We're loving this Eat At Home dishtowel! It's been appearing here and there in shops around the web, and we like its vintage forthrightness. It should be right there with the "Wash the Dishes" towel o...

Look! Favorite Picnic Sets from Etsy

A faded old bedspread will certainly do just fine for a meal outdoors. But if you're having a garden party or want a special set of linens just for picnicking adventures, check out these lovely picnic...

Etsy Finds: Favorite Dish Towels for Spring

Here in Boston, the first crocuses are starting to bloom and we're starting to feel confident that spring might actually be here to stay! Want to bring a little spring into your kitchen? Check out the...

Color In the Kitchen: Store Tea Towels in a Basket

We like this simple storage idea from a recent house tour: store your tea towels out in the kitchen, rolled up in a wire basket. We love pretty, colorful tea towels, but since we can't have them all o...

Simple Solution: A New Kitchen Towel Hook

Last week, Faith asked where you hang your kitchen towels. The answers ranged from "over the edge of the sink" to "on the oven handle," typical places I've hung my towels, too. But inspired by the pos...

Tin and Teapot, Tea and Cake: Favorites from Toast

One of our favorite online shops is Toast, an apparel and home goods shop in the UK. International shipping is a doozy, so we look and don't buy, for now, but we do find their kitchen things very insp...

New Oven Mitts and Pot Holder from BUILT NY

We are fans of BUILT NY's bright, stretchy, and well-made wine totes and lunch bags. We've mentioned their cute lunchbox and their picnic duffel too. Now they're expanding into kitchen tools as well: ...

Linen Tea Cozy from Inklore

On cold mornings we like to sit down in front of the computer with an entire pot of tea. Our little teapot doesn't do such a good job of keeping our tea warm, and we've often thought about getting a t...

Look! Zip & Dry Apron

We love this apron idea from the US-based company Just Perfect, which adds a zip-off towel along the bottom of a regular apron bib. What do you think?...

Gift Idea: 10 Favorite Tea Towels

We've been noticing a lot of fresh, pretty tea towels by independent designers. They're an inexpensive and often colorful way to spruce up your kitchen. We have started thinking of them as calling car...

Etsy Find: Knitted Apple and Pear Jackets

We may have finished our week of highlighting local apples, but that doesn't mean we'll stop eating them for many months to come. We love these little cozies that are designed to cushion your apple...

Roundup: Best of IKEA For the Kitchen

We've been blogging some of our favorite IKEA products for the kitchen - good, cheap buys that are also of good quality. Here are our picks so far! ...

Kitchen Keeping: How Many Kitchen Towels Do You Own?

We aren't so great about replacing or tossing our old kitchen towels, even when they've seen better days. They are just so useful, and if it's laundry day, there's a good chance we'll reach for one wh...

The IKEA Kitchen: TEKLA Towels (and Napkins)

Like we said the other day, IKEA is best used in moderation. But there are some good buys there and we have a few favorites that have done very well for us. Here's another IKEA pick: the all-cotton TE...

Table Lovelies: Simrin's Nature Collection

We don't write about a lot of purely decorative accessories here at The Kitchn; we try to stay rooted in the more practical side of cooking and eating. But cooking does involve presentation, and since...

Look! Origami Napkins from Uncommon Goods

Check out these origami napkins from Uncommon Goods! We love the touch of whimsy they bring to the table. ...

Doileez from Modern-Twist

One of our favorite ways to make serving a cake or cookies slightly more special is to put a paper doily on a plate. It's an old-fashioned touch; it feels sweet and a little extra special. So we love ...

Do the Dishes: Tea Towel from Showpony

The sun may be shining; the weather may be beautiful; it may be picnic weather - but we still need to do the dishes! We're loving this tea towel......

Good Question: Looking for Bright and Colorful Tea Towels

Here's another colorful kitchen question to go along with this morning's paint color advice. This one is from reader Marina, and she's looking for some colorful kitchen tea towels. My teensy kitchen...

BYOB: Good Canvas Shopping Totes

If you aren't already bringing your own reusable tote bags to the grocery store, let us offer some inspiration. We bought this "Beet the System" bag at the Brooklyn Flea last weekend, and we're loving...

Hot Trend: Bamboo Towels and Textiles for the Kitchen
International Home and Housewares Show 2008

Bamboo has been used in sheets and other home textiles for a while now, but it's just making its way into the kitchen mainstream. We found these towels, above, in the Green Showcase at the Home and Ho...

Etsy Easter Find: Bunny Kitchen Towel

As long as we're talking about Peter Rabbit... Here's a little more bunny love — a sweet, hand-printed dish towel from Etsy. Click below for details... ...

Entertaining Tip: Use Cloth Napkins

We can't count how many times we've heard, "Ooooh, fancy!" as guests unfold cloth napkins into their laps at our dinner parties. Really, cloth napkins aren't so fancy. At least, we don't think they ...

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