Kitchen

Neighborhood Spy: What’s Hot on the Web

February 16, 2012 by

NKBA Award-Winning Jane Lockhart Kitchen Design

In the midst of a week that typically sees ridiculous spikes in fine dining reservations, we thought we’d keep it real, take a spin around the web and round up links pertaining to the sweetest room of any house: the kitchen. First up, Kitchens.com presents the 15 winners of the NKBA Design Awards’ large kitchens category, including the warm white modern vintage space created by Jane Lockhard Interior Design (above), which took third place in its category…

Furniture Fashion sticks with the vintage theme and takes us back in time to the days of bobby socks and poodle skirts with their roundup of 10 retromodern must-haves for 1950s-kitsch kitchens:

Espressione Cafe Retro Espresso Maker

 

Bringing it back into the here and now but stopping ever so briefly in the land of dreams: have you ever wondered what it might be like to have Justin Timberlake cook you dinner? The website for Soho Mews, a building in which he owns a condominium in New York, gives us the slightest glimpse of its model kitchen’s straited elm and smoked matte glass cabinets, Jet Mist slab countertops and backsplashes, and Gaggenau, Miele and Sub-Zero appliances.  Delicious indeed:

Soho Mews Model Kitchen in NYC

 

Meanwhile, back in the real world, the ever-inventive minds of Real Simple are sharing 14 surprising things you can do with your microwave. Decrystallize honey, warm up beauty products and disinfect sponges? Who knew?

Lastly, those inquiring pollsters over at YumSugar wants to know whether you love or hate horizontal kitchens. Cast your vote now!

 

Photo credits: Kitchens.com, Furniture Fashion and Soho Mews.

 

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