Kitchen and Residential Design

Pardon the bad pun but if you keep reading it'll make sense. Four years ago, I wrote a blog post about an Italian furniture studio I...

My friend Patrick Shilling is a master woodworker in Bethnal Green, London. Over the years he's carved out a niche for himself as...

This is what I call craftsmanship. That joinery is in the center of a table designed and built by my friend Kevin Fitzpatrick. Kevin...

Say you’re working with a design-only designer on a kitchen renovation. Say that said designer puts together a plan to end all plans. A plan...

Hey designers,  The Thermador Kitchen Design Challeng e is back and it's better than ever. Oh and when I say "hey designers...

Recently, I had the good fortune to visit my friends and colleagues at Blanco on the set of a photo and video shoot. The folks from Blanco...

The term “Shabby Chic” was initially coined by The World Of Interiors magazine back in the 1980s, but first became really popular in The US ...

Is your food starting to taste a bit gritty? If your paint is chipping off and landing in your boiling pots, the marble countertop has ...

This e-mail just arrived: For starters, what color grout to use on your back splash is not a huge dilemma. Deciding to take a loved one...

I haven't written for Houzz.com for a year and a half, yet every day I wade through no fewer than five e-mails from Houzz members. To a...

Tile of Spain is running a contest they're calling Passport to Creativity . Four credentialed designers and or architects will be se...

Thos. Moser is celebrating their 40th anniversary as fine furniture makers and when I say fine I mean it. To celebrate, Moser's...

Here it is in situ . I wrote about this originally a couple of weeks ago . I'm thrilled with my Novica experience and if you'r...

EuroCucina takes place in Milan every other year as part of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile. EuroCucina is Europe's largest k...