what to do with this high kitchen wall
susan graves
last year
I’m looking for suggestions for my eat-in area in kitchen. This high wall is a conundrum! We may eventually take down the brown wallpaper and maybe build shadow boxes similar to what my husband built below the peninsula. . I’d like a narrow buffet , but no clocks or mirror suggestions please. Thank you !
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houssaon
last yearlast modified: last yearI think an interesting piece of art wold look good. If you have enough floor space, add a shallow table under it.
tracefloyd
last yearlast modified: last yearIs your kitchen a salmon color? It looks like that on my screen. Blue goes with orange. Either way, your wood floors are a shade of orange. Create a blue accent wall with a low console instead of a buffet.
Leave enough room inside one box trim for a large black and white framed photo. Get a dramatic chandelier for even more depth against the wall. I like the crisp white drapes here, and the plant, too. Don't you love the way the photo appears to cast shadows from the window...talk about depth!
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Comments (20)I am a big sprayer and I do love the pull down/out spray vs. the separate one and I do really like the pull down vs. out. I think I will go for it. For the prep sink (which we rarely use and not to prep anything) I'm just going to get one of those swivel sprayers that attaches to the end of the faucet vs. a new faucet. I don't use the sink much because it has no sprayer and that was why I was thinking about a new faucet. However the small attachment will suffice for that small sink....See MoreHigh Ceiling, Empty Wall - what to do?
Comments (0)Our front room is bare; we are awaiting the delivery of a very nice combo, high-end dining table and bumper pool table. Hardwoods get installed in March 2018 - as we spent our budget on a guest bath renovation and other projects this year. What is our problem ? Our wall. We like the guitars on the wall as we are musicphiles, but the wall looks plain. How can we liven it up? Also, any other tips appreciated....See Morewhy do so many expensive homes lack a high end kitchen?
Comments (147)Maybe that's the way you tell old money from new money? Very much so. From Vanity Fair in 1995, the year after she died, Even if Jackie had a limited amount of money to spend when she moved to New York in 1964, New Yorkers more accustomed to lavish displays of freshly milled chintz and newly quarried marble didn't understand her classic American style, which values comfort and continuity over the whims of fashion. They seem disconcerted that she never traded up: her library carpet was threadbare, the fabric on the dining room walls (originally bought for a dollar a yard on Orchard Street on New York's Lower East Side) faded, and her kitchen, in the words of one friend, "deplorable." They find it peculiar that she engaged a succession of decorators over the years—notably Albert Hadley, the late Harrison Cultra, the late Vincent Fourcade, Georgina Fairholme, Mark Hampton, and Richard Keith Langham—but the look never changed. (The last refurbishing was done, eerily, in the bedroom where she was to die. Only months before she became ill, Langham replaced the bed hangings with Scalamandre glazed cotton in "Tuileries," a lavender and salmon pattern of undulating vines and small flowers. Says Langham, "It's almost as if she knew what was going to happen.") One friend with an expert eye recalls that one of the few important pieces of furniture in the apartment was a subtly painted Louis XV table with a marble top, on loan from Bunny Mellon. The rest was French and Italian decorative painted furniture, souvenirs from Jackie's travels (an obsidian sphinx said to have been given by Anwar Sadat, Greek worry beads of blue glass), stacks of books, her collection of drawings of animals dating from the 17th century onward, and overstuffed sofas and chairs. A drawing table where she painted was set up in the living room. ... Those with refined sensibilities found it admirable that Jackie seemed to have remained immune to the decor mania of the late 70s and 80s and that she preferred to spend her time working as a book editor, riding, and playing with her grandchildren, rather than pondering species of fringe or the intricacies of upholstery with a decorator. They see in it a reflection of the uppercrust values of another era (benign neglect) and a reflection, as well, of her private self, as opposed to the immaculate public image. "Her tastes were very French," says art critic and lecturer Rosamond Bernier, who adds, "I think of a warm place, with a fire burning." "It was," says designer Carolina Herrera, "an apartment of someone who comes from an old family. Not a showplace full of marble like the homes of all these new people. It was her taste."...See Morejackowskib
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last yearOpen shelving or bookcases would look great against the wall. Make sure you select a size that is at least 96" tall.
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last yearJan, Behind the wall is our master bedroom, to the right our kitchen, left is slider to a covered porch. Couch faces a fireplace-you can see I have a very open floor plan.
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