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 and see if we notice any trends. Lately it appears we're all about kitchens in shades of light blues and greens. Here are a few of our favorites...

Love, love, love this cheerful kitchen from Canadian House and Home. We'd place a few pots of fresh herbs outside that perfectly placed window for easy access.
We're not exactly sure what's being stored in those big boxes on the top shelf, but leave it to the folks at Martha Stewart to keep this small kitchen perfectly organized.
A kitchen awash in progressively deeper tones of blue-green, from House to Home.
Sharon and Spencer's Danish & Dogs Domicile is filled with amazing rooms, and the fresh green kitchen is no exception.
Who needs stainless steel? Retro appliances add tons of character to this Catskills Cottage on a Budget, via The New York Times

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I've admired the basil green kitchen in #4 since it was first featured on AT. It would take such guts to paint a kicthen that color (at least for me), but I love it! I also love the cabinets and hardware in that kitchen.

I noticed that four of the five also feature open shelving...

posted by Emily the Cat on August 21st 2009 at 7:51pm
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we recently finished renovating our kitchen (the original 40's kitchen was heavy on the funk-factor, by which i mean over 60 years worth of accumulated grime that prevented the cupboards and drawers from closing properly).

we went with dark brown IKEA cupboards and i mixed several of our low-VOC paints to make something remarkably close to #2. i was never a fan of blue before this, but doing this kitchen with only resale in mind actually turned me on to watery hues. it's soothing beyond belief, which is a good thing in a room where one uses knives on a regular basis.

posted by the polish chick on August 21st 2009 at 7:55pm
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One of my clients has an old Victorian house on Deer Isle. It's got aqua painted wood floors in the kitchen and hand made tiles of the waterfront village of Stonington, Maine. She's matched sea-glass green and blue tones for the dishware in the open shelving---it makes me drool every time I see it. So light and breezy with the fresh crisp white walls and simple white linen window treatments.
Katy
http://fengshuibyfishgirl.com

posted by fishgirl on August 21st 2009 at 8:43pm
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