The Kitchen Fix

Blue is my favorite color. When I play a game, I want the blue piece. My favorite fruit? Blueberries, of course. My bedroom is blue; my bathroom is blue; my sons’ rooms are blue; my living room is (mostly) blue; and my kitchen is….green. Okay, so it’s mint green, admittedly a blue-based shade, but still: [...]

  The Dunphy Kitchen from ABC’s Modern Family I’m not really a sitcom person, per se, but Modern Family totally cracks me up. My kids love it too, and I like watching it with them—some of the more adult themes sail right over their heads, but others bring up important questions, in a natural, organic way. [...]

  I’ve had a hard time getting into a suitably spooky mood this year. I think it’s because October has felt more like early September here in New York. I need a little chill in the air to shiver, you know? But we finally got the Halloween decorations up this weekend, and I went pumpkin [...]

Choosing pendant lighting to hang above the kitchen dining table isn’t quite the same as choosing a fixture to illuminate the island, or a countertop. Style is important everywhere, of course, but here the look of the light is really key: Because it hangs at eye level, in a (usually) small space, the fixture is [...]

We spent last weekend visiting friends in the country. They have a gorgeous old farmhouse that needs work pretty much everywhere, including (conveniently) the kitchen. They’ve just stripped the floral wallpaper from the kitchen walls, and now they’re picking paint colors and browsing fabrics for the triple windows over the sink. Because they’re keeping the [...]

The other day when I wrote about my beloved breakfast nook, it dawned on me that, really, the most important element in the space is the table. Our breakfast table isn’t anything particularly special in looks—it’s a simple round oak pedestal-style—but it means a lot to us. Like most of our “meaningful” furniture, the table’s [...]

Our kitchen has several strikes against it: It’s small, it’s a galley, and it has doorways on each end of the prep space (so there’s always at least one kid tramping through the kitchen while we’re scrambling to get dinner together). Fortunately, It also has one saving grace: a sunny breakfast nook. The nook isn’t [...]