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...
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...
We've been talking color, color, color this month, with the Fall Colors Contest in full swing, and with harvest in glorious color all around us. But we've never really asked you directly: What col...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Name: Ivy Location: Auckland, New Zealand Rent or own? Rent What does your kitchen need? I would like my kitchen to be a colourful and exciting place to be, full of personal touches. I have always d...
We've been talking about rental kitchen makeovers, and we often hear laments about bland oak cabinets and brown tile. So here's one idea: don't fight the rental kitchen brown. Embrace it. ...
You know we love yellow kitchens. We have a nook in the kitchen that needs painting and we've been pondering a warm mustard yellow. Well, this kitchen may have decided us: we're smitten with this colo...
Last week we highlighted a surprisingly sophisticated hot pink kitchen. Now we just stumbled across another pink-flavored kitchen from our own archives. What do you think of hot pink in the kitchen? ...
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 ...
We've shown you pink in the kitchen before, but most of the spaces we've seen use pink in a sweet way—more cupcake frosting than Dancing with the Stars costume. What do you think of this look?...
When we brought these apricots home from the farmers' market on Saturday, the first thing we thought, seeing them on the counter, was, "What pretty colors for decorating the kitchen..."...
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 ...
What color is your kitchen? Do you need a pick-me-up in these gray days of winter? Well, we're going to take a trip through some of the colorful kitchens featured on Apartment Therapy over the years. ...
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