Kitchen Spotlight: Bright and Bold Cottage Kitchen

With spring knocking on the door, and brighter sunshine coming in through the windows, we're looking for a little more color in the kitchen. This kitchen delivers it in spades. It's a modest kitchen in a small cottage on Long Island that belongs to a sculptor. Take a closer look at her kitchen and see some of the color she added through vintage finds and inexpensive ideas.

The sculptor, Elena Colombo, creates fire pits and bowls in dramatic sizes and shapes. Her home is colorful, too, with a flair for the found object. Here are a few things we noticed about her kitchen:

• That vibrant spring-green color on the kitchen walls didn't come in one can. Colombo layered on three colors: yellow, white, and spring-green. The result is this multi-dimensional greenish-yellow. It's so bright and pretty, a wonderful backdrop for vegetables!

• There's very little counter space; instead she brought in vintage tables and cupboards.

• This vintage sink was rusted around the bottom, so she painted a bright red stripe to cover the rest and dress up the sink.

• This cabinet was painted with leftover paint from another project.

• See the whole cottage tour: Home Tour: Beach Bungalow at Martha Stewart
• See Elena Colombo's work here: Fire Features

(Images: Martha Stewart)

Comments (10)

That is seriously cute!

posted by ShellyIN on April 21st 2009 at 12:17pm
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I love how the chairs seem to grow up out of the floor because they're the same color. I wish I could do that!

posted by Tiamat_the_Red on April 21st 2009 at 12:52pm
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kitchen of my dreams! does anyone know where those chairs are from? vintage?

posted by saltyc on April 21st 2009 at 1:00pm
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Hi, that's from an article in my favorite defunct magazine Blueprint, July/August 2007 issue. The chairs are from DWR, style "Holz" listed at 150 bones each. That's my dream home...sigh.

posted by annab on April 21st 2009 at 1:27pm
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i love it!

posted by abigailbelle on April 21st 2009 at 2:47pm
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Love. In fact, our nursery is going to be orange and blue - I sense a trend in the making!

http://embritadesign.blogspot.com

posted by EmmieB on April 21st 2009 at 5:15pm
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This is beautiful. It exemplifies the kitchen-is-the-heart-of-the-home notion. I could totally see myself just hanging out here.

posted by david @ justveggingout.com on April 21st 2009 at 10:52pm
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I saw the same turquoise-colored trash can in Homegoods last night. Love these colors together -- so happy & beachy

posted by robyn on April 23rd 2009 at 10:47am
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I cut that article out of the magazine when I first saw it. The feature was influential to me as I picked the color scheme for our first house. My place is still nowhere near as cool as that, but I love it as much as the first time I read it.

posted by Molly Margarita on April 23rd 2009 at 11:56am
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I love this kitchen. The sink is to die for, the chairs are dreamy, the balance of colors is perfection.

Martha Stewart used to sell those garbage cans back when she had a catalog. I still have a white one and it's pretty shot; perhaps I'll copycat the color from this photo and paint it.

posted by becky on April 27th 2009 at 12:37pm
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