The stairs have captured my attention but there are a few other elements which I love to.
The pure white walls and cabinets give off a calm feeling and allows the table to be the focus.
Black and White squares lead to a dramatic floor and carries your eye over to the black railing and treads of the stairs!
Check out the towel bar, high up on the closet door! What a great idea, I try not to use paper towels so I always have 3 or 4 cloth ones around the kitchen.
We can't forget the exposed ceiling, something which could have looked very industrial now has a welcoming feel painted white.
Black and White squares lead to a dramatic floor and carries your eye over to the black railing and treads of the stairs!
Check out the towel bar, high up on the closet door! What a great idea, I try not to use paper towels so I always have 3 or 4 cloth ones around the kitchen.
We can't forget the exposed ceiling, something which could have looked very industrial now has a welcoming feel painted white.
Could this be a favorite kitchen of mine? That would be a double YAY!
Do you have stairs in your kitchen?
(image from House Beautiful/Jason Bell)
Do you have stairs in your kitchen?
(image from House Beautiful/Jason Bell)
11 comments:
Loving them too! In older homes, kitchen stairs often led to the maids' quarters. When my parents renovated their home, they insisted on keeping them in tact as a vestige of an era gone by.
I absolutely love this kitchen. Black and white checked flooring like that gets me every time! As for the stairs, how cozy! Maybe they're a secondary stairwell. I can picture little kids coming down these at night for their midnight snack--adorable : )
So true Lydia I imagine this was an old space!
Mary I LOVE that image of kids running down the back stairs to fetch a midnight snack! Too cute!
There's so much to love here, but I must say I have always loved stairs in the kitchen, seems like such a timesaver to get to the 2nd floor right from the kitchen. Plus, I love the look. My eye really went to that classic b/w floor.
OMG! I adore the look, especially the black & white floor. I have wanted to do this for years!!! Thank you for the inspiration :)
OMG! I love the look! I especially adore the black and white floor, and have been wanting to create that look for years! Thank you for the inspiration :O)
The black and white squared floor is perfect for this space
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Love the floors, too!
The stairs in the kitchen are so "Leave it to Beaver!" I can't really remember any kitchens I've seen with stairs in them like this, but it's really cute. I love the towels high on the door, but am also like, wha? Why that high? What I really wonder is in what room is the photographer standing that is so open to the kitchen like that?
My mom has stairs in her kitchen!
I grew up in that house. It's the common staircase, straight, while the other stairway is grand and swoops into the front foyer... I suppose that staircase is for guests, I wouldn't know... I have rarely used it!
Anyway, the kitchen has a fireplace with a nice sitting area, a dining table, a big island for baking/entertaining, and a butlers pantry leading to the dining room = I think a staircase is the key ingredient to making a formal space seem less formal.
As a matter of fact, I stayed here last weekend: http://www.theinnatkentfalls.com/ (built in 1741) and they had a similar footprint to my moms house! I wonder if it's just an old school, really, really old school thing?
xxABCD
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Love it! I do not, but my friend does... hers leads to a hallway and then to their bedrooms. It's really nice to have a second set of stairs, as if, for some reason, you need to sneak up, you can either way! :)
Great details here... I hope you're having a fantastic week,
xo
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