Kitchen
“Du bist was du isst,” is German for “You are what you eat,” an appropriate phrase for a kitchen filled with fresh vegetables and dried herbs from the garden. Lydia also likes her dishes to be seen. “If you’re going to cook in a small kitchen, you’ve got to let the dishes do the talking,” she says. Below the open shelf are cooking tools that are neatly displayed. “The key to living without clutter is to make space for only what is needed,” she says.
The sand-colored quartz counters with an eased and polished edge were chosen for their durability and color. “We did a combination of sand and beige with gray tones in this kitchen, so you have a balance of these neutrals,” Brewer says. “The combination of the gray and beige is more interesting than picking one or the other.”
Turning trash to treasure in Australia. This laundry room backsplash in Adjungbilly,in Australia’s New South Wales state, provides a colorful backdrop for Will Onus and Simone Viljoen when they fold clothes. Viljoen, a model and artist, took a photo of trash in a garbage bin, edited it on Photoshop and applied interesting filters to the image. She then sent it off to DecoGlaze to have it digitally printed and set behind glass to complement their Ikea cabinetry.
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