Kitchen Ideas
Cookware on display. In a restaurant kitchen, pots, pans and dishes have to be close and easy to grab. Stock open shelving with simple, brasserie-style dishware (plain white or with a colored rim) and store cookware on a wall- or ceiling-mounted pot rack (bonus points if your pans are well-worn copper and steel).
Saltillo floor tile. This flooring, a Mediterranean signature, lends an earthy note and fits in with the warm palette. Brick can work nicely also. If tile feels too cold or hard underfoot, consider bringing in a durable rug that complements the color scheme, perhaps with a swirly design that echoes the curving elements of the space.
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Mediterranean kitchens: warm colors, painted tiles, wrought iron, big curves
7. Ter­ra­cotta tile. Earthy red tile is typ­i­cally used on en­try and kitchen floors.
Dark wood. This en­try door and cas­ing, the wide plank floors, base­boards and en­try ta­ble are all a deep dark brown tone
3. Cop­per sinks. I love to use cop­per sinks in Span­ish-style kitchens. This ham­mered is­land sink by Na­tive Trails per­fectly com­ple­ments the oil-rubbed-bronze faucet.
A med­i­ta­tion gar­den out­side a break­fast nook en­sures that your day will start peace­fully and calmly, even if it doesn't end that way.
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Ped­als to turn the wa­ter on and off. Turn­ing on the faucet with messy hands can make an even big­ger mess. Plumb­ing ped­als, like the ones in this kitchen, can help con­fine the mess. Just like at the doc­tor's of­fice, you can use your foot to turn the sink on — hot wa­ter, cold wa­ter or both. Con­tact a lo­cal plumber to ask for an es­ti­mate — ped­als can be added to ex­ist­ing sinks or new kitchen de­signs.
An un­der­counter com­post­ing unit like this one means you can just wipe all of your food waste off the coun­ters and into your bin be­fore it goes out to the gar­den. Put one in your coun­ter­top where you do most of your prep work to make com­post­ing easy to re­mem­ber and do.
Ex­am­ple pal­ette: Clock­wise from top left, these cool anal­o­gous col­ors (all from Ben­jamin Moore) are Light Daf­fodil, Whip­ple Blue, Cream Silk and Brook­side Moss.
Ex­am­ple pal­ette: Clock­wise from top left, these cool anal­o­gous col­ors (all from Ben­jamin Moore) are Light Daf­fodil, Whip­ple Blue, Cream Silk and Brook­side Moss.
A great strat­egy for in­cor­po­rat­ing bold col­ors into your kitchen is to keep the ex­pen­sive items — such as the coun­ter­tops, cab­i­net fronts and floor­ing — neu­tral in color and save the bold col­ors for things that are easy and af­ford­able to change out, like wall paint.
Here is an ex­am­ple of a pal­ette fea­tur­ing one bold color used with sup­port­ing neu­trals. Clock­wise from top left (all from Yolo Col­or­house): Thrive, Stone, Air and Leaf.
Ex­am­ple pal­ette: An ex­am­ple of a pal­ette for a light and bright kitchen, with a kick of color. Clock­wise from top left (all from Mythic Paint): Sunny Side Up, He­lios, Silken Sand and Slip of Sil­ver.
When ac­ces­sories aren't enough, add a wow fac­tor, or what De­Walt calls a punc­tu­a­tion mark. The bright blue tile back­splash adds sur­prise to this bath­room while al­low­ing it to har­mo­nize with the rest of the house.
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Yellow and terra cotta tiles
Choose shades of terra-cotta, tawny yel­low, soft gray-green and faded blue. Col­ors should look as though they've faded grace­fully in the hot sun; paint gains a pleas­ing patina and depth from a lit­tle chip­ping or crack­ing
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Paint pick: Moon­light 2020-60 by Ben­jamin Moore
Sunny yel­low. There's no bet­ter way to ac­cen­tu­ate a sun­room than with sunny yel­low walls. This type of yel­low has just a bit of or­ange. In this space, both the walls and ceil­ing are painted, mim­ick­ing the sun­light — even on cloudy days. Paint pick: June Day 6682 by Sher­win-Williams
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You don't need to use bright col­ors to make an im­pact. This pal­ette is rich and so­phis­ti­cated — per­fect for a calm­ing, rest­ful space. Clock­wise from top left (all from Far­row & Ball): Hound Lemon No. 2, Ele­phant's Breath No. 229, Eat­ing Room Red No. 43 and Olive No. 13.
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