Kitchen of the week: Think Ice Green for Kitchen Cabinetry

No white or natural wood cabinetry for a change in this weeks' kitchen of the week.  This kitchen that I found at Erin's blog House of Turquoise caught my attention for its clever use of color in the cabinetry.  It's there but not in your face, the effect is almost as neutral as white or beige.  I also love the height of the cabinetry.  It’s smart to use all the wall space you have and make the entire area more functional and grander.  You may be wondering why all appliances that one can imagine are together in one kitchen...and that's because the owner is an apprentice chef who has incredibly good looking brass pendants hanging in her kitchen.  I mean...let's take a moment here...don't these pendants lend a life changing factor to this kitchen?

I kind of like how the backsplash looks from this angle where it adds uniqueness to the design elements.  The designer Dee Dee Taylor Hannah probably thought that there's been enough white subway tiles (something I still love regardless)  in the history of design and opted for something a little bit more modern for a traditional kitchen.  I'm not a big fan of this type of glass tile, but one of the things I love more about blogging is when I come across something that perhaps makes me think twice.  I never get tired of things that wake up all my senses and possibilities and in this kitchen those glass tiles really make all the sense.  I think that using white subway tiles in this kitchen would have probably made it one more typical kitchen. 

An integrated coffee maker, warmer drawer and whatever that thing under the microwave/oven is, are on my list for my next kitchen.

I usually do my computer work out of our kitchen table so one of the things I would love to have in my future kitchen is a work space in it to open letters, write notes and put together to-do lists... I would need a chair with back support though.  Can my list get any longer?  Enjoy!

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Marbleous showers

Steven Gambrel via Elle Decor

Remember my dilemma with not having enough space for a deep bathtub in our master bathroom. Well, after I figured out how to make it work (by replacing the adjacent bathroom's door by a pocket door and taking over 5 inches); I sat down and thought why all the hustle and bustle for a bathtub that is not going to be deeper than 17 inches? Unfortunately bathtubs start getting deeper after 6'. So I decided for a shower instead with a wooden bench to sit on and give myself my own pedicure. That's what we have right now anyway and it's worked pretty well. It'll only be a lot nicer. All these images are more than inspirational and even our bathroom won’t be lined in Onyx or in any of those one-of-a kind marbles that Kelly Wearstler seem to love; I'll let you know later what I'll use.  I also love all the glass doors in these showers.  Steven Gambrel (above) via Elle Decor seems to favor travertine marble for the showers he designs.

Kate Spade's bathroom with white subway tiles and lucite sink legs.

Kate Spades is my kind of girl because she rather have bigger common spaces like a living room, library and bedroom than bigger baths. I prefer that too. The spacious shower below also found at Elle Decor is like a personal gym also.

In this bathroom designed by Nathan Egan the walls are covered in marble and the floor seem to be covered with penny or hexagon marble tiles.

The basketweave floor tiles have no competition because of the use of lucite/acrylic legs as sink base.

A complete covered shower in onyx.

 David Jimenez used white subway tiles on the walls in this all white bathroom.

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