Oh my god! I love love love love this! Aja, as a fellow Fiestaware collector, I feel your kithcen is...well...friggin awesome!

Gosh, the first two entries are lovely!

jeez I love these entries so far!

I love this kitchen!

The EAT! right above the oddly anthropomorphic pitchers is so energizing. It makes me want to bake and get flour all over the place! I love this one.

I love the tiled walls, so pretty.

love the colors, really love the floor, a tad overboard on the fiesta tho.

The color is great, I agree. But using lots of colored plates (that can't be accessed for use) and duplicate pitchers and strainers (that are so numerous that you'd never need that many) seems both a bit strange and like a huge waste of space.

Of course I love this one, I just included it in my group of favorite inspirational kitchens. It's such a happy room! Exactly what you need in the morning sometimes. Good luck!

Gotta say! This is one great kitchen. Well lit, functional, spacious and the color combo gives you that up feeling. I'd want to get up early enough to sit in here and have breakfast.

It's very pretty, but too much Fiesta for my taste.

The tiled walls are great!

I love the collection of Fiesta Ware. Great use of colors, does the kitchen function well, though?

omigoodness, at first glance it makes me want to re-think the decision not to re-locate the kitchen at the North end of the house!

Brilliant use of colour but I think, in the end, it would drive me batty.

Still, well done. It is gorgeous.

Great use of the plates, bowls, and other accessories to bring color, though I would like to see a little more space between some of the Fiestaware pieces, particularly the pitchers beneath the EAT sign. I also like the little pops of color in unexpected places, like the mixing spatulas in the utensil can. Overall, these aren't colors I would choose, but I like how you've put them together.

wow! now that looks like a great way to start your morning. what a fun space!

I love how ridiculously, unrealistically perfect all of this is (THREE colanders? four silicone potholders? 8,000 pitchers?), it's like a cartoon kitchen! What makes it so great is that you've taken it all the way, nearly to the point of insanity/nightmare territory with all the repetition and redundancies. Wonderful/horrible! If it makes you happy, I think it's great.

That is such a happy kitchen space - I'd kill to be cooking in that every day.

it's a beautiful space. re: the fiesta ware - while quantity of objects is one issue, i think my sense is it's too linear and symmetrical - particularly the plates lined above the window, and the glass cabinet with rows of identical items. very much store-display inspired. i wonder if some of the areas can't be unpacked a bit. but the theme, colors, and layout are very inviting and fun to look at!

I could totally lay off caffeine if my kitchen was this bright! I like the fiestaware! What I also like is that the cabinets are white. Aside from the flooring and backsplash, you could easily go more muted if you ever wanted to with the addition of different paint and accessories (something tells me you won't).

Wowza. I love the exuberance and graphic-ness of this kitchen. I would never do this in my own home (because bright colors generally give me a headache when I'm exposed to them for an extended period of time), but kudos for your fearless and fun design!

I love it! So fun, it makes me want to bake those m&m cookies.

I'm not a huge fan of green, but this kitchen is amazing! I want it :)

Personally, I love the floor. I wanted a brightly colored Marmoleum floor in our kitchen, but I couldn't bring myself to commit to something that permanent. So I applaud your bravery. I also really like how the tile looks with the white cabinets.

Agree with everyone who says it makes them want to bake. I'd be happy to have coffee there every morning

I think that the plates and pitchers are more appropriate for a Fiestaware catalog photoshoot, not someone's actual kitchen. I don't mind the color, I would just put things in the cupboard that I'd actually use.

That floor is hideous though -- it looks like either someone vomited all over it or someone spilled guacamole.

Other than those two issues -- I do like the kitchen.

This looks like the kitchen of a small, very well-funded preschool. I mean that in the nicest way possible.

So cheery! And if you've got the space, why not display a collection like this in a kitchen?

Also, I love that this kitchen is in Newport News. When I was growing up there, the entire region was under the sway of the Colonial Williamsburg aesthetic. Great to see branching out!

Love it! When can I come over for dinner????

Fabulous! I don't understand the comments about too much fiestaware.....many of us collect things, paintings, pottery, mcm design, furniture, textiles....I've never seen a posting saying there was too much artwork....I like the idea of displaying a collection in the kitchen. Everything in one's home does not NEED to be functional.

I love Fiesta Ware and I love how you've used the colors as the theme for your kitchen. I also really like those two slim cabinets on either side of your stove...what a great use of space. The floor is fun and interesting and one of the elements that I think makes this kitchen a winner. It would have been easy to go tame there.

I like everything about this entry, though I find the tile backsplash a bit busy/distracting. But once again..that was an area that would have been easy to go neutral on..so congrats that you went bold and colorful! You have a fun, happy, homey kitchen.

and there's never such a thing as 'too much' Fiesta Ware!

polkadot - I think there was a comment today in another post suggesting that an owner had too much art on one wall. Whoever it was felt the pieces lacked cohesion, and suggested a single large piece instead.

I think it's important to edit. A large collection can be overwhelming, especially if the viewer is not already a fan of whatever is being collected. Removing a few items can make the grouping stronger. But of course, this is a matter of personal taste.

It's a dream kitchen... where do you put your real utensils, though? Are they tucked away out of site? It's so compact and neat!

Awesome use of color without being at all overwhelming! I am not usually into bright yellow and lime, but this is gorgeous! I love the pitchers lined up on the shelf like a rainbow of Peeps!

wow -- a caffeine free wake me up -- great color and graphic punch

loads of diner-ish fun

I think the fact that some of the Fiesta Ware is precisely arranged in a glass-shelved, glass-doored, illuminated cupboard totally clarifies that this is a collection displayed for pleasure--NOT an array of items for use!

I can go either way with Fiesta Ware, but here I just love it to bits. Also the colors of the walls and floor with the colors of the tiles. Love the big baskets on the table shelf. Also enjoyed your color tip #1--I have foggily tried to do this but never stated it so clearly to myself!

Just what is that flooring anyway? I can't get a really good look in the pictures. Would you please share the brand name of the material and the name of that color?

Just looking at the pictures makes me happy! The accessories bring in a lot of color, without it being over the top.

I think the key here is to edit down some of the colors - I love the fiesta wear and the tile backsplash - just not sure I like them together. I think most everything else is wonderful! My favorite spot is the utensils :-D

Excellent! Love it all! I am not a white kitchen fan, they usually seem to sterile, like a hospital, but this is EXACTLY the way to do it! The plates above the window are wonderful, it would seem less of a statement and more a haphazard attempt if there were fewer. It's all great, I won't attempt to cover everything, but the floors, letters, walls, plates, and the collection are perfect-very well done entry!

Eeeew, fiesta ware. This looks like a tacky circus. Sorry.

hmm..it's a little too store display-ish to me but i love the visual coherence of the room. how can this kitchen not uplift your spirit after a long day?

Oh my you have a lot of pitchers. I LOVE your kitchen though. I can't wait to show you mine. Kitchens should definitely be a fun happy place. Unless you are serious and sad about cooking...then they can be dull.

This is just lovely.
I love the vibrant colors with the white, it's a very nice balance. A bit too much fiesta above the window, but everything else is lovely.

It is wonderful to see a collection being used as art, rather than tucked away in boxes or shoved into every conceivable space - this looks like a well loved collection and makes the kitchen look bright and cheery. I love it! and I don't even care for Fiesta ware lol I'm not as keen on the backsplash, it is distracting somehow, but overall this is a lovely use of color.

The contest is about bold, beautiful colors. This kitchen wins hands down. I just wish you showed other rooms in your home. I can't imagine having just the kitchen in such bold colors. Fiestaware is very 50's and colorful and a grat way to add instant color to your kitchen. Perhaps, in my opinion, too much color going on here. This looks like a prop kitchen, not a working kitchen. Love the organization of everything by the cooking stove.

reminds me of a crayon box.

This is by far my favorite entry so far... too bad that voting has ended for it.

I think some people miss the point...sometimes on AT people write in and ask for suggestions, and sometimes they are just opening up their personal spaces and hard work with us and sharing. Unless I missed it, there wasn't a question in there...

Your advice for first figuring out the mood you want in the room is great and it looks like by following that advice you were able to get the kitchen you'd been longing for! Awesome job and thanks for sharing : )

Why would some of you bag on something they obviously feel so good about?? Doing that would make me feel awful.