Kitchens & Baths

Kitchens & Baths

7 Best Houseplants for the Kitchen

Brighten up your kitchen counters with these hardy plants that can take the heat.

Kitchens & Baths

8 Ways to Design a Kitchen for an Early House

These examples show it’s possible to combine old and new to create a traditional yet comfortable kitchen.

Kitchens & Baths

9 Ideas for Cottage Baths

Style notes for a room that’s comfortable when it’s traditional.

Kitchens & Baths

A 1868 Greek Revival Kitchen

Never out of style…that can be said of Windsor chairs or a blue-and-white color scheme—and of this recent kitchen in an 1868 Greek Revival house.

Kitchens & Baths

When you buy an old house, you will have to remodel the kitchen. Old houses never have enough storage space. Bachelors don’t cook. Wrong, wrong, and wrong—at least at Sconehenge, David Berman’s 1910 Shingle Style house in Plymouth, Mass.

Kitchens & Baths

A Bathroom Created from Salvaged Material

A no-style bathroom gets an affordable makeover, courtesy of reclaimed and salvaged materials and good design. No need to gut the room.

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A Bright Art Deco Bathroom

This brilliant Art Deco bathroom, original to the 1933 Spanish-style bungalow, features a shark’s fin bathtub recess, green tiles and buttery fixtures.

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A Bungalow Era Bath is Timeless

The typical bungalow-era bathroom is a simple space given to sanitary white surfaces and little ornament. Still, utilitarian can be handsome.

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A Bungalow Kitchen Comeback

These Denver owners overcame indecision and bad advice to bring back their bungalow kitchen.

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A Casual Country Kitchen

Architect Sandra Vitzthum designs a welcoming, functional kitchen for a Connecticut family.

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A Classic All-White Kitchen

Like a little black dress or a tuxedo, an all-white kitchen is possibly one of the most classic spaces in design. Done incorrectly, a white kitchen looks boring and staid. But when it’s executed by a skilled designer who strikes the right chords, it’s elegance writ large. As architects and designers will tell you, it’s all about the details.