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It likely tastes fantastic, but it LOOKS amazing. Very pretty!

@MISSFIFI - I agree. When we re-did our kitchen, the one mistake we made was putting in an accessory shelf/built-in right over the stove. It would have been fine but at the last minute, we had to change stoves (the one we'd bought was literally the last of that model we could get our hands on and the delivery people dropped it in the middle of our street.) So when we put our new stove in, we had problems immediately with heat reaching the bottom of the two shelves. I'd intended to store spices on that shelf, but now it's truly an accessory shelf with some pitchers and occasional heat-tolerant flowers. Sigh.

Live and learn, at least it LOOKS pretty. :)

I think it's really interesting that the downstairs, "public" part of the home has (at least to my mind) a totally different style/feeling than the upstairs, private areas of the home. And while I really responded to the upstairs, I felt like the downstairs was almost stuffy or over-styled. Almost as if it was decorated as a public space, which is really a contrast to the more personal spaces of the home.*

Dead animals aside, I didn't NOT like it, I just thought it was interesting.

(I really need a glass of wine. I'm the most inarticulate person in the world today.)

I'm kind of laughing at the sentiment that a baby's room should reflect the baby's "style."

If people took this to heart, we'd all have had rooms decorated like the inside of a uterus.

@jondominion - one person's yawn is another person's lovely. Is that really all you came here to day, that you hope this person's taste in flowers is better? Please, at least be a bit more original with the snark.

Wow, that was not what I was expecting at all! I love the rug and I do think it was over-accessoried (looks like a retail showroom rather than a real kitchen to me.) But I think if you were to take about 10% of the accessorizing away, it would be just about perfect...I do like the way it flows into the next room a lot. And the colors are really warm without being too chaotic.

I really like the light string headboard. It must look AMAZING in the dark.

I think this is such a sweet little kitchen! I really love it. It looks functional, like every inch works and makes sense and I love the white since I think it makes it look cleaner, bigger and probably helps showcase the food as it's being cooked and the pretty flowers Krystle buys every week.

This is a really, really nice example of how small is beautiful. Nicely done, Krystle!

I'm glad they changed it. It needed a facelift. And they DID stay true to the midcentury aesthetic, despite what people are seeing here. Did they do a literal, boring and costume-y re-do? No. But that's what renovations are about; changing things to a more modern sensibility without losing the character or style that informs the rest of the house's look or feel. They succeeded, despite the comments here.

To those who think the "no color"-ness of the room is an issue, consider that infants can focus much easier on black and white and it's pretty common to design for infants using solid, dark colors and white in graphic shapes and lines since they are highly visually stimulated by it. As they age, they get more adept at seeing colors and being stimulated by them, so perhaps that was the the thinking here?

Also, I don't think babies can differentiate between adult and baby aesthetics. And if they can? We're in trouble.