Kitchen Trends....Miele Automatic Coffee Maker

I love NEW kitchen trends....well, not all trends. However, Miele has designed a really nice high-end machine that is scratch resistant and anti-fingerprint. Love it already....oh and of course it makes cappuccinos! (my fave) This machine uses the Nespresso capsule coffee system and for all you cappuccino LOVERS, Miele has designed a unique cup for frothing the milk!

Also, you don't need a special connection for this built-in machine, it does EVERYTHING right from it's central piece. I'm hoping I will own one of these for my home (one day). Of course,  I would then blog about it with reviews & let you know what I thought.  :) They aren't cheap though, one of these bad boys will run you about $2400! That is what you'll have to pay if you want the VERY best at a push of a button!


Do you own a Miele or other automatic built-in coffee machine? If so, how do you like yours??

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Is Your Kitchen Making You Fat?

I'm sure a lot of people are thinking about their diets again after consuming chips, chili, buffalo wings, and beer while watching the Super Bowl this weekend. One nutritionist recently advised her clients to "close" the kitchen after dinner which entails shutting the door and turning off the lights. Kind of hard to do if you don't have a kitchen door and even harder still if your kitchen is open to every other room in your house! I'm not really a fan of open kitchens because if you entertain, you can't close the door and hide the mess but what if seeing the kitchen all day also causes people to gain weight by always tempting them to eat. There is no "out of sight, out of mind" mentality with an open kitchen. Maybe we should be not just be designing kitchens from an aesthetic stand point but a health one as well. Just some food for thought (pun intended). What do you think?

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Green Tea Designs- (Kim's Kitchen) Before & After...

If you haven't seen the amazing remodel job that Kim from Desire To Inspire did in her kitchen, take a look at these few pics below. Kim remodeled her entire kitchen last fall with Greentea Mizuya Cabinets, and covered the entire process on her blog.

However, if you're looking into re-designing your kitchen, head on over to Green Tea Designs website to read all about the Demolition process and to see the finished kitchen in it's entirety...along with MORE PHOTOS! Very good read!

The perfect home...

Den Vita Skolan is a great international blog I found. Hanna was kind enough to let me share her fabulous kitchen with you all. I noticed quite a few items from IKEA in her kitchen, don't you just love that store? You can put an entire kitchen together for half the price of a custom one!! Hanna seems to use very little color in this space, still managing to make it look super modern and amazing. I LOVE how her pup's bed fits right in! An open kitchen has always been a dream of mine along with exposed bricks, very reminiscent of a NYC loft. What do you think of this kitchen?? Visit her blog to see more of her home renovations.

* Thank you Hanna!

Chic City Kitchen

I was going to call this post, Chic Country Kitchen but then I remembered that the husband and wife owner's Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch don't care for the connotation that the phrase "country kitchen" infers, especially since theirs is in a loft in downtown New York. Regardless of what they call it, it's one of my favorite kitchen designs. The forced cherry blossoms add to the beautiful ambiance and have me drooling as well. I also thought that Decorno might need a little inspiration after her "home of never ending projects" post today. You can read the entire article about this chic kitchen here.

1) The island: The marble top comes from a lithographer’s studio in Indiana and had to be craned in through the window. Standefer found the tree stump in a forest, and uses it as a cheese platter or fruit stand.

2) The Garland stove: A well-used workhorse that was inherited from the loft’s previous owner, an urban pioneer who’d been there since 1968 and also kept a giant loom on the premises. She’d cloistered her kitchen in a dark corner of the loft. They moved the stove—and everything else—out into the open.

I'm going to have to do another post about the owners and their design firm Roman & Williams because they have a really interesting back story. They started out as set designers for movies and then started to get interior design jobs after a few celebs who admired their work started to hire them. There also came a point where they couldn't stand to watch all their hard work destroyed at the end of a shoot. They recently finished the lobby renovation of the Royalton Hotel in New York and word is that they have quite a few more celebrity clients. Now, I just wish they would post some photos online so we can see what else they have been up to!

THE BIG CHILL

Big Chill combines the iconic look of a 50's-style vintage refrigerator with all the modern amenities of today's contemporary appliances. I love these and came across them for the first time in Dwell Magazine. They also have stoves and you can purchase custom pieces in colors of your choice. I'm in love with the RED fridge!

2 Great Decor Ideas!

Here are 2 interesting decor ideas I found on Women24. Make your kitchen more inviting by creating a nook for seating – real important in a busy kitchen. Built-in seating is always comfortable & looks great. Adding pink curtains will create a soft light and a warm feeling to the nook. Also, If you've been thinking about wallpaper lately, but aren't too sure. How about opting for stencils? Not only is wallpaper expensive & hard to apply, it also limits your choice of colors and patterns. Find a pattern you like and have it lasercut into a stencil. Choose strong colors that complement each other or muted colors like mother-of-pearl as an accent for a softer interior. The 2 lower images are from Stencil Library.