Technology can be trusted to enhance the interactive quality of appliances and living spaces, but its arrangements like the Euromobil IT-IS Kitchen that promise not to create a total disconnect. The comfort of home can be at risk when furnishings begin to take stark and streamlined forms.

Ones initial observations of these interior designs by Simone Micheli may serve up a surprising impression of TRON-inspired systems, but the bright blue glow beneath the island counter exists primarily to unite the spaces separate elements between the open-plan food preparation area and the adjacent living room.

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If you can’t afford a kitchen remodel but want to change the look of it, you have a few options in updating your space. The best part about these projects? Not only are they affordable, but they’re quick, so you can implement a budget-friendly makeover in a few hours or a weekend.

Quick Kitchen Projects:

1. Write On The Refrigerator. If you have a dated refrigerator and can’t afford to replace it yet, jump on the trend to paint your appliance with chalkboard paint. This hides how old the refrigerator is while giving it a practical, fresh look.

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Out kitchens can easily become cluttered with junk that we don’t really need. Specialty tools and gadgets that might work great for one particular task but take up precious space in your kitchen cabinets and on shelves.

Our friend Brian Parks worked as a chef for eight years in NYC at some of New York’s finest restaurants including Danny Meyer’s BBQ joint Blue Smoke and Mario Batali and Andy Nusser’s Spanish-inspired Casa Mono. We asked Brian what he feels are the most important tools that every cook should have at home and he obliged with his Top 8 Must Have Kitchen Utensils.

I often get this question during cooking classes.

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If you can’t afford a kitchen remodel but want to change the look of it, you have a few options in updating your space. The best part about these projects? Not only are they affordable, but they’re quick, so you can implement a budget-friendly makeover in a few hours or a weekend.

Quick Kitchen Projects:

1. Write On The Refrigerator. If you have a dated refrigerator and can’t afford to replace it yet, jump on the trend to paint your appliance with chalkboard paint. This hides how old the refrigerator is while giving it a practical, fresh look.

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The Living Kitchen show at IMM Cologne, held in Germany less than less than 2 weeks ago was kitchen heaven, purely and absolutely. The exhibits “told” many visual stories – whole stories, as the displays were large, some, enormous. I was a guest of Blanco (a bigger player in the global sink and faucet scene in terms of design and product presence than I realized) and was invited as a member of the Blanco Design Council. Here are some of the most compelling chapters in the book of today’s kitchen!

Chapter I Overview – The Living Kitchen was a very appropriate name for this show. Lowered “p

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