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Looking For a Green Toaster
Good Questions

Q: Where can I find a green toaster (other than the one by Bodum...)??? Sent by Shoshana...

Reader Tip: Add Beet to Poached Pears for Color

Look at these spectacular ruby-hued poached pears. Gorgeous! We love poached fruit, and, inspired by David Lebovitz, we've been planning on poaching a couple pounds of pears this weekend. Well, reader...

Jean Greenfield's Kitchen And Garden In San Anselmo

Jean Greenfield's husband did most of the major work on her beautiful vintage-inspired kitchen in her Arts & Crafts-style San Anselmo home. Jean is no stranger to the food industry; she has work...

Cookie Art: Painted Sugar Cookies from Martha Stewart

This is our kind of art project - the kind you can eat! Martha Stewart uses straight food coloring to get those vibrant colors and an interesting technique for applying them. Even with our limited art...

Color in the Kitchen! Mini Pedestal Cake Plates

This month has been all about COLOR in the kitchen, in food, and in harvest. Well, to cap it off, we have to show you these jolly little platters, made from refinished old candlesticks! ...

Kitchen Tour: Steve's San Francisco Color Inspiration

Interior designer Steve Justrich is inspired by color. When he renovated his tiny San Francisco kitchen, he drew his primary inspiration from the colorful art that lines his walls and makes his kitc...

Using Color in the Kitchen
Guest Post from Johnny Grey of Johnny Grey Studios

Art, paint and pattern: three spirit-raising tools that I use in every project. They exist in the kitchen as part of the fabric of the design. Can you have a happy or home environment without them? Co...

Fall Color! Kitchens from Room for Color Contest 2009

Have you been following the Room for Color contest on Apartment Therapy? We have, and we've been especially interested in the colorful kitchens that have popped up among the entries. Here's a peek a...

Kitchen Design: Color For The Long Term
Guest Post from Susan Serra of The Kitchen Designer

So, we are ending this series on color in the kitchen by looking to the future and thinking about color, and how you can use it as part of your kitchen design over time. Do you have a crystal ball? I ...

Modern Kitchen Design: A New Authenticity
Guest Post from Susan Serra of The Kitchen Designer

The modern kitchen is not so easy to define these days. I can think of a variety of kitchen themes which could have the word or concept "modern" attached to it: the new traditional, modern/rustic, eco...

White Kitchens: The Absence of Color
Guest Post from Susan Serra of The Kitchen Designer

For me, there can be a never-ending discussion on the virtues and properties of the white kitchen. We call a white kitchen classic. White IS a classic in kitchen design, for decades, and at this mom...

A Spot of Color: Teakettles in All Shades

Ever since our sunny yellow teakettle bit the dust, it feels like a little cheeriness has been absent from the kitchen. In our search for a new kettle, we've come across a whole spectrum of gorgeous...

Color in the Kitchen...On the Cheap
Guest Post from Susan Serra of The Kitchen Designer

You look at the kitchen and you immediately get groggy, with a big fly-catching yawn, and before you get totally cranky, you know something has to change. If change doesn't come, no court will convi...

Color Splash: Decorating with Bunting

We had always thought of bunting as a festive, but temporary, way to decorate for parties and special occasions. But then we came across an image of a garland incorporated into kitchen decor and lov...

A Pinch of Sugar Color
Guest Post from Susan Serra of The Kitchen Designer

We're celebrating color on the table and in the kitchen this month! We asked Susan Serra of the great site The Kitchen Designer to inspire us this week with some colorful kitchen spaces, and with some...

Orange, Blue, White, & Red: Gallery of Colorful Kitchens

October is all about color; the Room for Color contest is underway, and so we want to look back at some of our favorite colorful kitchens for inspiration! Here's a look back at some of the colors, f...

Global Color! Colorful Tableware from Around the World

The kickoff yesterday of Apartment Therapy's Room for Color contest has us in a colorful mood. We have been noticing some colorful pieces for the table and the kitchen from around the world, so here...

How Color Affects Your Perception Of Food

Did you know that the color of your food, dishes, table linens and wall color can all have an affect on your appetite? Some colors can excite your senses and entice you to eat more, while others can...

A Tour Of The Food Network Prop House

What is it about the idea of 200 cake plates or 100 salt and pepper shakers in the same place that gets us all giddy inside? Eddie Ross recently had magnificent adventures, backstage in the prop dep...

Kitchen Color Gallery: Blue Like Berries

From dusty, barely-there grey-blue to eye-popping turquoise, blue is one of the most popular and versatile colors in the kitchen. The right shades can serve old-school country kitchens stenciled in ...

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...

Pink In the Kitchen: Color Inspiration for Cooks

When thinking about kitchen accessories and color, pink is not the first thing that comes to mind. It can be aggressively girly, over-the-top vintage, or shockingly bright. But lately we've seen some ...

Kitchen Gallery: Green Like Spring Peas

Spring is coming, and with it all sorts of new green and living things. Many cooks choose the color green for their kitchens, too - it's can be cheery or soothing, boldly modern or quietly vintage. Th...

Morning Survey: Is Your Kitchen Color Coordinated?

Walking past a window display at Williams-Sonoma can make you think you need your microplane to match your pot holders. And while we don't encourage willy nilly consumerism for the sake of a uniform k...

Video: Fiesta Rainbow!

Do you like Fiesta Dinnerware? We stopped by their booth at the Housewares show and were bowled over by the huge array of colors. We have always loved the Fiesta colors and solid, made-in-Americ...