French Country Kitchen Design, a beautiful and romantic white kitchen. Designer: Erin Martin
blue and white walls
Architecture and applied ornament conspire to make the kitchen lighthearted and a touch theatrical. Artist Michael Duté’s blue and white design brings walls and even the barrel-vaulted ceiling to life.
A farmhouse sink and marble counters keep to the rural, primitive quality of the building. A Sub-Zero drawer refrigerator means the only obvious appliance is the stove. Casement windows and doors fling open, usher in breezes and light.
White is a trend color for 2009 interior design. White works to reflect about 85% of light. White seems to make rooms seem brighter and larger. Unfortunately, white walls are vulnerable to scraping and marking and a kitchen environment might not be the best place for white with food flying all around.
Here we commend white kitchen cabinets for your kitchen, and the white is no longer simply “white”. It is French Vanilla, Eggshell, Cream, and the list goes on. These subtle colors mixed with white add a feeling of warmth to …
White kitchen cabinets make color choices for accessories and countertops somewhat easier to choose an accent color theme throughout the kitchen and surrounding rooms. Using white color cabinetry in any of the styles mentioned can accomplish a design which is timeless and stay stylish for years to come.
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Contemporary style white gloss finishes give a very sleek modern look, while white painted wood raised panel door styles can give a warm traditional feeling in a kitchen. The flooring and countertop colors are the main accent areas …
Calacatta marble countertops
Above countertops and stove, the backsplash is clad in blue and white French tile from Country Floors. Almost everything else in the kitchen is white, —Martin’s favorite color. The counters are Calacatta marble.
Michael Duté dressed up the Vent-A-Hood range hood with a cartouche of a landscape and deer.
Outdoor kitchen
Outdoor Kitchen Designs
Outdoor kitchen cabinets are constructed using durable materials like stone, stainless steel, and redwood. This protects them from the harmful effects of seasonal weather and termites.
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The outdoor kitchen is a luxury and should be treated as such. It is a place for family and friends to enjoy each other’s company while swimming in the pool or just entertaining a full house. This keeps the majority of them outside making clean up more enjoyable.
This Los Gatos, California kitchen combines a freestanding stone-clad pizza oven and an L-shaped stucco-and-stone island …
Leong considered the outdoor living rooms as important as the indoor ones. Adjacent to the indoor kitchen is an outdoor one with a beehive-shaped stone pizza oven Leong designed to evoke Provence’s Mesolithic storage structures and shelters. “The flues for pizza ovens tend to be in front, and if you don’t make an effort to make these ovens look interesting, they end up looking like dog houses on steroids with a smokestack on the front,” Leong says. “But by piling the stones high, we were able to run the flue out the center.”
By Mimi Read
Blue milk paint on these burnished Crown Point cabinets, with Shaker style doors, is matched up with a gray slate counter top and fluted tulip pendant light shades for a kind of hipster approach to conventional cottage style. (Source: crown-point.com, Atticmag.com)
All blue is a bold choice for a Shaker kitchen, but it will give it real uniqueness. Open storage like this is very typical – but if you’re going to copy the look you need to ensure it’s kept neat. © Schmidt Kitchens
The handmade kitchen painted with Monet Blue with …
How to design a french country kitchen?
French country kitchens are one of the most desirable kitchen designs sought after by homeowners. The comfortable feelings evoked, along with the practicality of a French country kitchen are what make it most desirable. Using natural materials for walls, ceilings and floors helps to convey the texture of the country feeling, while rustic, earthy materials for furniture and accessories completes the design, offering comfort and simplicity.
Decorating French country style kitchen, space decorating and kitchen cabinets are the primary things, but the accessories and dinnerware are also very important.
Decorative metal urns and oversized platters and bowls make a dramatic statement in the old world kitchen. Whether your decorating style is French country, Tuscan, or traditional, the addition of metal urns, an iron hanging pot rack, aged copper wares or decorative iron wall decor can pull a Mediterranean kitchen’s design elements together by creating a dramatic focal point.
Orange is an important color to consider when creating a Mediterranean style …
