Cambria at our sister site Re-Nest just did a quick, loving makeover of her rental kitchen for only $80. She took doors off cabinets, hung pictures, and added some colorful paper for a fast, cozy upgr...
We've talked about rental kitchen upgrades (how far would you go?) and special kitchen projects, and it seems like many of us are willing to go beyond new curtains or a coat of paint to make a long-te...
Look! A kitchen, and a rental kitchen at that, won first place in the International division of our Room for Color contest! We were very excited to see such a vibrant kitchen in the first place spot...
As we press forward with deep cleaning and special projects of beautification in this week's Kitchen Cure assignment we're going to give you lots of inspiration, with photos and tours of clean and b...
Maybe you have a rental kitchen. Maybe you don't have the resources to renovate a kitchen that you own. But you're stuck with ugly, cracked, or disfigured countertops. What to do? Here are a few creat...
Are you in a long-term rental? Does your kitchen need some help? Do you ever dream about painting the walls or the cabinets, replacing the countertop, or changing out the linoleum? How far would you (...
Name: Samantha and Jacob Location: Berkeley, California Rent or own? Rent What does your kitchen need? Oh good lord, what DOESN'T it need?! I'm a professional photographer, but I was thisclose to be...
Food blogger and cookbook author David Lebovitz is an American renter in Paris who inherited a narrow kitchen with a motley assortment of appliances stuffed under the slanted roof of his 650-square-fo...
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...
Rental kitchens! The most difficult part of a rental apartment. We are mostly stuck with the kitchens that come with our rented dwellings, and yet there are ways to add pops of color and small funct...
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. ...
Last week we asked if you needed a kitchen makeover. Lots of you do, apparently, because we already have an inbox full of submissions! Here's our first attempt to offer a little advice and inspirati...
Do you have a rental kitchen with old cabinets or terrible wallpaper? Are you stuck in an ugly kitchen that you don't have the power (or money) to remodel? We'd love to see it and offer any advice we ...
And, despite the charming photo above, we mean one cast-iron skillet. That's the opinion of writer Jhumpa Lahiri (author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake), who gets nostalgic about vacation...
We just received this simply lovely budget kitchen makeover from reader Leea in central Mexico. She has a rental kitchen, so she couldn't change much, and yet she made a stunning difference — ...
We get a little smarter - and pickier - about what we look for in a kitchen every time we move. During this last round of apartment hunting, we came up with a list of things we wanted to check, consid...
Here's a little end-of-day kitchen bliss for you: a sunny white kitchen in a San Francisco rental apartment. The kitchen may be all white and beige in that rental-kitchen way, but the windows that ope...
When looking for a new apartment, we foodies often have a long list of "ideals". We want ample counter space, decent storage, good natural light, and a gas stove, too, if you please. After all, we're ...
Here' a little end-of-Thursday kitchen eye candy for you. But it's so far from a show kitchen or an over-the-top space. It's a simple, unpretentious kitchen with light streaming in and a sunny, relaxi...
We've been hunting for a new apartment, but keep running into a problem: many of the the otherwise great apartments we're finding come with an electric stove in the kitchen. We've been cooking with ga...
Here's some inspiration: the head judge of Top Chef and owner of several very successful Manhattan restaurants cooks at home in a rental kitchen that probably looks a lot like some of yours. He says i...
With the Spring Kitchn Cure getting underway, we've been looking over our kitchen with a critical eye. Since we're renters, some of the things that we'd really like to change (the faux-wood cupboards....
Last week's post on 10 kitchen improvements for renters was a hit; lots of you are in rental kitchens! But that was just a start: there are plenty of other good ideas on brightening a rental kitchen. ...
It's DIY Month, and we're encouraging you to take care of all your projects around the house, even in the kitchen! We get lots of questions from renters who want to spruce up their kitchens without br...
A kitchen redecorating question today, from reader Libby. She writes: Any ideas on how to re-decorate my kitchen around these heart pine cabinets? My house is the ubiquitous suburban ranch-style, b...
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