Go ahead and laugh, but I tried to channel all the Carl Larsson/Cotswold Cottage/Massachusetts Colonial/DeVol Workshop/Massachusetts Greek Revival (my actual house’s era, 1860)/Unfitted Kitchen inspiration into my kitchen design. (If you want all the visuals, go here to my Pinterest board.) (A print of this is up in a bathroom upstairs — I… Read More »
Unfitted or freestanding kitchen inspiration and thoughts!
As we prepare for the highly anticipated Longest Kitchen Renovation Ever Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You, let’s talk about inspiration! My inspiration comes from Christopher Alexander, whose book A Pattern Language is an analysis of what many of us already intuit in our appreciation of the timelessness of certain forms of building, and indeed he has another book called A Timeless Way of Building on the same theme. (I will touch on some of his ideas, good and bad!)