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Congrats to this week’s final winner of our giveaway for lucky Better Homes and Gardens readers! Tasha Tottleben Roe will receive the Franklin Bag. Thanks to everyone who entered and stay tuned on Facebook, Twitter, and our blog for more giveaways coming soon!
Inspiration room for the la colle bag. Image via Elle Decor
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Congrats to this week’s winners of the our giveaway contest for lucky Better Homes and Gardens readers! Sara Joy Schmidt will receive the Freemont bag and Tammy Vickery Harms will receive the Drexel bag to help them jumpstart their kitchen renovation projects! Thanks for all the entries and keep them coming! There’s one more winner to go, so pass this along to friends and family. To those who have already entered, your names are still entered to win throughout the contest so keep checking back. Remember that you get 4 entry opportunities in all – so sign up for all four by following these instructions!
I was inspired today by a post on Apartment Therapy regarding a black and white bathroom. The owner didn’t seem to love her bathroom in this case and was looking for help and advice…but many people we encounter seem to love white bathrooms as much as they love white kitchens. Here’s a few of our favorites.
Love the crisp white bathroom from Katy Elliott’s blog with the graphic shower curtain! Talk about cheap and non-committal thrill. Change out the shower curtain for new styles and patterns at whim – you’ll never get bored.
Classic – what more to say. Country Living Magazine
An example of wood floors in a bathroom from Country Living. Great example of black grout too!
We’ve done quite a few of them over the years at KitchenLab, here’s a few of our projects below. We always aim to make each unique to the home rather than a standard replica of a white bathroom. Whether you mix with Carrara marble or paint the walls a vintage green, or opt for black grout rather than white, you really can’t go wrong with white bathroom.
This bathroom is all white tile with off-white walls with black accents and a chocolate brown and white shower curtain. The jute strip rug from West Elm is alternative to a typical cotton bathmat.
Add a chandelier ceiling fixture or sconce
This Farrow and Ball wallpaper really sweetens up a kid’s bath in a Victorian home.
Charcoal grout makes this bathroom more graphic
clean and classic, white subway tile with Carrara marble on the floor and a Carrara pencil liner cap.
Thanks so much to Molly Anderson from Apartment Therapy San Francisco for posting about us! We are so thrilled to have been picked up and shared with your readers. Thanks a million.
If you find yourself needing to be inspired for a big bathroom or kitchen remodel here is one solution. Design in a Bag offers beautiful design samples for the kitchen and bath that are sent to you (in a bag, of course) along with images of what they will look like when they are all put together. Read more at Apartment Therapy .com
Also, we saw some comments made on this post and on another blog post that got us thinking we should talk about some of the points here rather than bore you to death with it on our “about” page. Of course we love the love, but the challenges are terrific and this is the perfect place to talk about them.
We made a conscious decision to not talk on the website about the endless reasons why Design in a Bag is not meant to replace a professional designer or replace the creative process in general.
Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?
Quick update on our Friday post on islands. I was reading a piece in the Times newspaper (London) online about Sophie Dahl’s (daughter of the great Roald Dahl, supermodel, mom and cook), new cooking show. This picture of “her” kitchen was shown, which I immediately loved, for its bold white and fabulous island, not to mention the exposed ceiling rafters, a particular obsession of ours. Rebekah looked and said, oh that’s the same kitchen we just posted on from Living, Etc. Et Voila!! Here it is, same kitchen, different shot…and by the way, this shot shows not only a fabulous island but a great farm table as well. Right up our alley. Also shown in the Guardian online.
Also a great quote:
Kitchens are the new living rooms, at least in terms of the time and money we invest in them. “I believe we’ve entered the ‘post-culinary kitchen’ phase,” says Johnny Grey, the architect and kitchen designer. “The living room has been overtaken by the TV, so there is only one room left for people to congregate in, and that’s the kitchen.”
Credits: The Times of London, author David Smith. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
Thoughts?
Thanks to Poppytalk for picking up Design in a Bag on their blog!
Design in a Bag are ready-made interior design samples for the kitchen and bath created by Chicago-based designers Rebekah Zavelhoff and Nick Nichols of kitchenlab-chicago.com. Starting at $59 each bag includes beautiful samples for tiles, counters, cabinets, counters, paint suggestions as well as images/renderings of what they will look like when they are all put together. Choose from more than 30 bags based on style and tones or order a custom one. Available online at designinabag.com. Read more…
I got a call from a potential client this morning inquiring about help with her kitchen remodel. She said she had a good start already because she had purchased a “Design in a Bag” that she saw in Better Homes and Gardens. Now she just needed a little guidance and direction in terms of construction, functionality, and implementing the design. Read more….
Last Friday we picked up a discussion on Twitter on kitchen islands, specifically stand alone furniture pieces, sadly I was out the door for the weekend and neglected to save it–but we use them regularly and wanted to add some of our favorite inspiration pics…what do you think? We love farm tables, the patina of a well worn piece with its history written all over it is hard to beat for adding life, depth and feeling to a kitchen. We want to emphasize here that all of these are open-shelf style islands or just plain farm tables, with no storage or limited storage. These character-driven islands may not be designed for your every gadget, but we think the these kitchens would look completely different (and not as interesting) if they were closed cabinetry-style islands.
This island brings focus to this lovely all white kitchen, the baskets add a nice tactile point as well.
Unique piece looks to have been stripped, love the rail, keeps the work space contained.
Classic table as island from Cote Sud magazine, slightly more sophisticated with turned legs, typical European style, fabulous.
Fantastic, worn patina on this top, really sets off this white, rustic look kitchen from Living Etc.
From Renovation Style magazine - clean lines and shabby chic chairs highlight the real star of the show, the terra cotta floor tile.
