I recently read a post by Rita Konig over at the NY Times blog about having real furniture in a kitchen. I always thought I wanted a kitchen to be a bit more sterile but the idea of making it a bit more cozy is growing on me. I quite like how Rita's kitchen turned out and I love this room styled by Christine Rudolph. I think it's a kitchen!
I LOVE this picture. I want to go on vacation in this picture.
I like a cozy kitchen but I do freak out a little about cleanliness and organization in a kitchen.
I think it depends on your cooking style. I’ll take cozy in the rest of the house and have my kitchen sparse and organized.
I’d totally have a cozy kitchen if I weren’t in an apartment right now. I think that as long as the surfaces you work on and cook on are sterile, it’s okay to put other things in the kitchen to make it feel more inviting. I definitely wouldn’t want things in the way (bumping into things and running around them is never fun), but if you can function as a cook, I think it’s all good.
I’m somewhere between. I like clean, clear surfaces – lots of space for food prep. But I also like cookbooks and pretty kitchen paraphernalia on display.
hello dream kitchen, come over to the nest and stay a while…or maybe bring the rest of the house and replace the nest? swooning over here.
ps – our kitchen in its tiny splendor is cozy and it is a first for me. i was hesitant but i LOVE it.
I love cozy kitchens! But I don’t love cooking, so I prefer to just sit in a pretty kitchen and have coffee and not care about its practicality.
I adore real furniture in the kitchen! I don’t have a ‘real’ kitchen right now, just a little strip of apartment-sized appliances, but I dream of a kitchen that’s warm and inviting, where I can read cookbooks in a corner and display knick-knacks in an old upright wardrobe-like shelf 🙂
I read this book when I was younger in which the main character had a sofa tucked beside a wood stove in her kitchen. For some reason that image sparked a great interest in ‘cozy kitchens’ for me.
I like the idea that if I’m cooking or baking and other people want to chat, they can hang out with me comfortably. However, I tend to shy away from this concept because I think it could easily eat up too much workspace unless the kitchen was really big.
i love, love, love the wishbone chairs!!! i am always scouting on craigs and ebay for a vintage set! thanks for the inspiration! mt
I love this too- and had no idea Rita Konig was blogging for NY Times! I will have to check it out. 😉
So many great blog posts from you….as usual!! xx