I would suggest floor length curtains for dining and living room as well and make some romans from a patterned material for the kitchen door and window. I would pick something with some colour. No...

Another vote for purple. Purple looks opulent and moody. I would then look for a wallpaper with coordinating purple in it and black ideally to ground all the pale colours as a feature wall to add d...

Thanks so much for everyone's opinions! I think I'll give it a try with the chair I have which is really very comfortable with nice padded arms but also doesn't take up too much space but if it see...

I would pick a light milk chocolate color or a pale creamy orange-like a creamsicle.

This post is great inspiration. I have a kitchen the size of a shoebox and the fact that I love to cook means that I'm always looking for ways to maximize storage in ways that look great too. Howev...

yellow, bright gold, or orange.

I also have the Chefmate dutch oven sold by Target and I've been really pleased with its performance. I wish I had bought more as gifts when I had the chance.

I live in Canada and I love shopping for Zara for clothes and I hope we get Zara Home, it looks really nice. But since everything always takes so long to expand here, it'll probably be ten years fr...

Many of the above mentioned books have been on my 'to read' list. I wasn't much taken with The Art of Simple Food, though everyone seems to like it, it seemed appropriate for someone very newly int...

Thanks a lot for the feedback! I think I'm leaning against the Rouge at this point...but am unsure about what to go with instead. I was worried about it looking a little 'grandmotherish' too,...

I love the design of this and was looking at in in-store, but it seems very cheaply made, even given that it's IKEA and at this price point, it seemed flimsy compared to even the units surrounding ...

Sign me up, I would love to test!

I colour that I've used and have really liked is Debbie Travis's Vintage Velvet, which is only available in Canada, but on colocharts.org it have Ace Hardware's Fortune Rock as a reasonable match. ...

As far as Gordon Ramsay goes, I much prefer Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares to Hell's Kitchen. Iron Chef America gets a lot of viewing in my house.

I can appreciate it, even though it's not quite my thing. Very nice job. Like others, the only issue for me is the cluttered kitchen. I think panels that slide on industrial-looking casters to expo...