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Why Being "Paper Towel Free" Is Overrated

Back in our post about saving your butter wrappers, we mentioned off hand that we're trying to be paper towel free. Well... that isn't exactly correct. We figured it was better to be honest about o...

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...

Functional Design: Where Do You Hang the Kitchen Towel?

Perhaps the most important non-cooking tool in the kitchen is the kitchen towel. Our kitchen towels see hard use: we lift hot pans with them, wipe up spills, wipe our hands, dust the table, and more. ...

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...

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...

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...

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......

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... ...

Kitchen Color: Teatowels and Aprons from Skinny laMinx

Look at these bright, pretty tea towels and aprons from Skinny laMinx. We've had this Etsy shop in our favorites for a long time - we like the apple reds and greens, Orla-Kiely-inspired stem prints, a...