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Five Other Uses for Tea Towels
studiopatró

Tuesday, we listed a bunch of different cotton tea towels for use in the kitchen. With so many great varieties of design, it would be easy to end up with a surplus, but thanks to their versatility, ...

Scavenger: Formal Entertaining
Seattle

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and we bet you’ve been adding up your guest list and realizing that your mismatched plates and uneven number of utensils may not work for a crowd. Look no fu...

Philippe Starck Kitchens for Warendorf

Oh la la! Philippe Stark has created 4 different kitchen sets which are meant to inspire healthy living. Because food and culture are so closely connected he's done something quite logical, added a l...

Orange Kitchens

Halloween may be over but orange is a color we love year round. It is said to stimulate appetite, making it the perfect color for a kitchen. ...

10 Space Saving Wine Racks

As we enter the entertaining season we find ourselves stocking up on bottles. They aren’t all for ourselves, of course. There’s one for the host, a couple for the dinner party, one for that recip...

Before & After: Lauren and John's First Kitchen

Lauren and John moved into their first home in August with big plans for a DIY renovation. For some of us that might mean several prolonged months of planning, but not for this couple; most of their p...

A Complete Colorful Kitchen Renovation...On a Budget
Before & After

Names: Susannah and Jeff Location: Seattle Renovation Budget: $9,000 (and they came in under!) Susannah and Jeff used to live in Chicago and we were lucky enough to be able to feature their small Hy...

Jerry Seinfeld's Apartment: Then and Now

Jerry Seinfeld's apartment was never a hub for progressive or cutting edge design. Rather, it was an "everyday" apartment in New York city. An upcoming "Seinfeld Reunion" episode of Curb Your Enthusia...

Obsessed with Vintage Cooking and Serving Collectibles?

We love our orangey-red enamel Dansk pot that a friend gave us. Everything about it, from its distinctive shape and handle to its cheery color makes us nostalgic for our childhood in a happy way. In ...

Kitchenette Idea: Turn a Closet into a Pantry

Some small apartments don't have separate kitchens, but rather small kitchenettes in the corner of the living or dining room. Your typical upper cabinets in this situation can sometimes be an eyesor...

Two Traditional Hutches with Striped Accents

The stripes in the backs of these hutches are a terrific combination of tradition with bold newness......

How To: Open Up a Kitchen
(Without Knocking Down a Wall)

Tiny kitchens are the plight of many city dwellers, but a lower square footage doesn't necessarily equal a claustrophobic room. Borrow a few ideas from the kitchen shown here to open yours up and crea...

Our Visit to the Concrete Countertop Workshop
Apartment Therapy Field Trip

A few weeks ago we had the chance to be a guest at a one day concrete countertop workshop at Cheng Concrete located in Berkeley. We took the workshop mostly out of curiosity and desire to learn more a...

Swizzlestix: Tea Towels, Aprons, Pillow Cases & More

We have a weak spot for beautiful tea towels so we were very excited to learn about Swizzlestix and their wonderful collection of tea towels. They also have retro inspired aprons, pillow cases, placem...

Roundup: The Wallpaper Backsplash

Putting in an elaborately tiled kitchen backsplash is a costly venture, but it's possible to achieve a similar patterned effect below your cabinets with wallpaper. Although a wallpapered backplash nee...

Before & After: Setting Up the Kitchen

Cassie's new kitchen, before the move-in Unpacking the kitchen is always one of the very first projects on our list to tackle after a move. A new home just doesn't feel relaxed until we're able to co...

Kitchens in Cool Tones

Do you keep an inspiration folder on your desktop? We find that it's great for organizing the many lovely images we run across while preparing these posts, and it's fun to periodically flip through an...

Lovely Porcelain by Samantha Robinson

Lately we have been discovering some great handmade porcelain. Last week we posted about porcelain art by Ashley Goldberg, this week we are in love with gorgeous mugs, tea pots, and bowls by Samantha ...

Etsy Finds: Yellow Accents in the Kitchen

There are few things more inviting than a sunshine-filled kitchen, but since the weather in San Francisco has been consistently foggy and overcast lately, we figure why not fake it? Inspired by this p...

Wood Cabinets 10 Ways
Do It Yourself Magazine

Bored to tears with your wood cabinets? We hear you. If you're not a renter or you have some stand-alones that you'd like to embellish, DIY Magazine has ten clever and inexpensive projects for adding ...

Ina Garten on Color in the Kitchen
House Beautiful

As big fans of the Barefoot Contessa's style, were thrilled to read Maxwell's design notes on Ina Garten and House Beautiful's 2009 Kitchen of the Year (on display now at Rockefeller Center). Although...

Renovations in a Vintage Home: Keeping What's Good
Atomic Ranch

A recent article about an Eichler renovation brings up a good point and something to keep in mind when planning a renovation, especially of a vintage home. While it is wonderful to update and moderni...

Before & After: Small Kitchen Renovation

Designer Anastasia Faiella has been hard at work lately with various projects, and luckily she continues to share the fruits of her labor with us. This recent kitchen renovation she sent in includes a...

Red and Blue Kitchens

Okay, so we're a little late for Independence Day innuendos, but we think that red and blue is a classic enough color combination to be relevant anytime of the year. These kitchens range in style from...

Decoupaged Refrigerator

We recently spotted this refrigerator in a Victorian cottage renovation featured in Country Living. The doors are fitted with black-and-white-stripe painted plywood. Then......