Rustic Cooking and Dining From Marie Claire Maison
• Antique kitchen tools aren't always great for actual cooking, but they do look fantastic on display. Troll flea markets in search of interesting old tools and treat them as kitchen artwork: hang them from hooks above your stove or counter.
• Choose a rough-hewn surface for a countertop. We've seen counters made from slabs of reclaimed wood that are just gorgeous. Of course, installing something like this takes skill; if it isn't in your budget, consider a cutting board or cheese board made from reclaimed wood or even stone or slate.
• Look for tableware with a rustic feel. Mixing and matching flea market finds—iron or enamel plates; glass mason jars—can be a great way to achieve a farmhouse look. Or if you want a matched set, check out the Sundance catalog, which offers a lot of dishware made from recycled glass.
• For your kitchen and dining room fabrics, try using burlap, rough linen, or even muslin. Casual tablecloths and napkins are easy to fashion from these fabrics, or if you're ambitious, you can try café curtains or an under-the-sink skirt.
• Fresh flowers are an easy way to bring the feel of the countryside into your kitchen or onto your table. Choose wildflowers and leggy stems that look freshly plucked from the meadow, like Queen Anne's lace and thistles. Mix in some leafy branches for height and textural interest.
Even if rustic isn't your thing, Marie Claire Maison is loaded with great kitchen inspiration. Enjoy!
(Images: Marie Claire Maison)
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I love this. Now I can have the perfect excuse for why my kitchen is so makeshift. :)
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I want a SMEG
view bepsf's profile
Ooh. I especially love the old-fashioned fridge. If I had that fridge, I would want to get bottled milk to put in it.
- Amelia of Gradually Greener
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That SMEG fits perfectly with that style. I love rustic more that extreme sleek.
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"If I had that fridge, I would want to get bottled milk to put in it."
Amelia--
Is it considered "Greener" to get milk in reusable/recyclable glass bottles than in paper or plastic containers?
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I love these, they are all so rustic pretty. I really love the corner built in stove!
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view jessimarie33's profile
Great post, and gorgeous rooms, but...
Could AT please stop calling wall decorations "artwork"? It's sort of like calling junk mail "literature." It's insulting to artists.
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@ Lisa (Montreal): Art is subjective. As an artist, I think anything someone finds visually stimulating and arranges in an intentional display can be art. I think you are confusing 'art'- a general term, with 'fine art'- a specific term.
That said, the pink kitchen is delicious!
view Jesse Lu's profile
Yeah, I'm not so big on the whole rustic look, but I'd totally go for that fridge. Retro sexy.
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SMEG website!
http://www.smegusa.com/Catalogue/Catalogue.aspx
I want that refrigerator!
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I'm very much the type to disconnect the gas from the oven & store half-done paint by numbers, old external hard drives that I can't bear to part with, candy corn and *VHS tapes I can't live without ...yet these kitchens with their ragged beauty and staggering individualism -
- frankly they make me want to get crazed, a maniac with blowtorch and like a wild animal turn on the food room in this hideous rental, all dingy linoleum, particle board / white cabinets with the cheapest and most boring door pulls- ok, I'm sorry -I know I'm not being very nice about it, I've probably spelled half the words wrong as well -but it's so hard to concentrate when I've already left my body and I live in a warm warm place and the pink kitchen is mine mine all mine.
(*several copies of Kitty Faces alone!)
Lovely item, this rustic angle. Thanks so much.
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Could someone tell me where to purchase sturdy shelving like this?
view bjburch's profile
I like the European county flair, but without the whole surroundings, I probably wouldn't enjoy most of those kitchens. They sure are fun to look at though.
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Would never have a pink kitchen here but OMG please let me live where that one is located!
After we drink the milk from the glass bottles we can put wildflowers in them.
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