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A timely post for me. I really love the shape of my couch after 16 years, I am going to have it re-upholstered and am leaning toward some kind of velvet.
One of my current questions is color: do I play it safe with a deep, warm grey or go with my heart and do bottle green. I have found amazing fabrics in both colors.

Green is my favorite color. I loved the range of greens in the recent House Beautiful color issue on Green.

Congratulations. Job well done...so far...and interesting reading. I completely agree with your comment about "living with your cabinet doors removed"...a really good investment in time to translate a "look" from a photo into real life.

Terrific transformation. Thank you for the perfect demonstration on how a light filled front door can completely change a space. This is exactly what I want to do. Tell ne, did you have any hesitation touse a glass front door for security or privacy issues?

This post is well done and well timed...another reason I love Apartment Therapy so much.

My current kitchen reno vision has cream painted cabinets and a walnut countertop for my small u-shaped kitchen, including the sink area.

Two questions...one, anyone have any experience with a darker wood like walnut around a busy sink? I've seen how the blond maple countertops darken with water, but thinking walnut starts out darker, so that will be better.
Second question - how do you handle the corners? Do you use a miter joint and try to get the grains and wood planks to match up, as if it were a striped fabric? My concern is then you'd have a joint right down the corner, which in our house is a busy food prep area of hte counter...Do you do a 90-degree angle and not worry about the wood grain and planks matching up?

thanks!

Rita! I miss your columns at T magazine...forgot you were at the WSJ...don't know if I can handle a subscription there just for the sake of reading you...Apartment looks great...

To me it all comes down to what do you want to be surrounded by on your table while you are eating, on your counters, in your cabinets, and in your house.

We love our Dansk plates, our china, our crystal and my husband's grandmother's silver. we use it all, every day. A few things in 25 years of marriage have broken and we replaced what we could (Replacements.com is great.) A few more nicks on the silver.

But I wouldn't trade any of it for the gravitas it lends to every meal - both prep and eating. And I certainly don't want to share my house with a bunch of "stuff" that I'm only using because I am afraid of using the real stuff that I actually like. We live in a small house, so we have to use everything that's there. It's worked for us.

Love this kitchen like the other posts because it looks real. in the "before" video clip with the kitchen designer, they discussed marble. However, in Sara Moulton's comments and in the after photos, she said she loved her "granite" countertops. Big question...is that marble like the original suggestion or did she go with granite. I would love to know....am at that exact stage of my kitchen remodel plans right now and am searching for a light colored granite if I chicken out of doing Calacatta Gold marble.

we used to drink 2% milk. Then I read an excerpt about milk from Michael Pollan's book "In Defense of Food" and he was really down on the process used to remove fat from milk. So now we just buy whole milk, try to buy organic. It foams better for homemade lattes!

you are reading my mind! Thanks for the suggestions! I've been cringing as I toss all these clementine peels into the trash. Thanks

We've had a rug in our kitchen always. Our is as patterned as the one in this beautiful kitchen....so it never shows whatever spills.

We have a U-shaped kitchen so the big rug completely fills the space, and eliminates the need for a little mat by the sink, a little mat by the stove, a little mat by the main counter workspace. As anyone who sells rugs will tell you, the tradition of rugs is that they were moved all over with nomadic tribes, set down on bare dirt and then moved again.

It's really nice to use beautiful things but not treat them in such a precious, fearful way...

Beautiful kitchen. REally love the backsplash too.