DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ Enough With All-White Kitchens. Why the ‘Layered’ Look Will Rule in 2024.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Sophie Donelson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

“I WANT a traditional kitchen—but make it cool.” Today, younger, hipper homeowners are texting designers with such seemingly irreconcilable desires. They want a look they can relate to. The layered kitchen, a neo-traditional approach that artfully patches together materials and styles. Cabinets typically vary, too: Paint might coat the lower set, often Shaker style, while the upper set sports glass fronts edgily framed in blackened steel. Next to this look, the standard monolith of same-color cabinets seems as dated as a matching lipstick, blouse and pumps.

Persons: hipper, “ Downton, ”, Victoria Sass Organizations: Prospect Refuge Locations: Minneapolis

☆ How to Create a Soulful but Up-to-Date Kitchen
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Elizabeth Sweet | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

DON’T LET the exposed brick fool you. Until recently, this vibrant kitchen in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, was dingy, dull and stripped of original details—the victim of a hit-and-run renovation that removed every bit of character from the circa-1900 row house, says architect-designer Sarah Jacoby. Reintroducing structure and a sense of craftsmanship via a swath of handmade Shaker-style cabinetry from deVOL, a U.K. firm beloved for their traditional benchmade joinery. Hand-painted in vivid Scullery Yellow, the cupboards strike the ideal balance between historic and “of the now,” said Jacoby. “It’s just a much more welcoming place to be now,” said the owners.

Persons: Sarah Jacoby, Jacoby, ”, “ It’s Locations: Bedford, Stuyvesant , Brooklyn, New York City, deVOL, U.K

CNN —Water levels are so low at Canyon Lake in Texas that an underwater cave and remnants of communities that stood more than a century ago at the site are reappearing. It was constructed in 1958 to help mitigate flooding and preserve water and was filled with water by 1968, according to the US Army Corps of Engineers. The drought combined with high heat to produce all-time low water levels. As well the history that is coming to the surface.”A bridge and rubble from a previous house that was underwater at Canyon Lake in Texas reappeared due to historically low water levels. “As the lake level drops, there are more underwater hazards such as tree stumps and large rocks that are at or near the surface,” Church said.

Persons: JM Perez, I’ve, “, Perez, Hancock, ” Devol, “ It’s, ” Organizations: CNN, US Army Corps of Engineers, KSAT, Porsche Devol, US Army Corps of Engineers ’ Fort, US Army Corps of Engineers ’ Fort Worth District Locations: Texas, Comal County, San Antonio, Hancock, ” Clay, US Army Corps of Engineers ’, US Army Corps of Engineers ’ Fort Worth

☆ 2023’s Most Coveted Kitchen Is Superexpensive. Here’s How to Get the Look for Less
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( Sarah Karnasiewicz | Photographs Andrew Bui For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TA-TA, soulless stainless ranges. Cheerio, monolithic marble islands. A few years back, a new status kitchen—imported primarily via a pair of posh British outfits called Plain English and deVOL—surfaced stateside. Modeled loosely on the below-stairs service kitchens once found on grand estates, it quickly found a cult following for its homely hallmarks: pared-back Georgian cabinetry in moody colors, from chalky green to dishrag pink; studiously aged taps and cupboard latches; commodious “larders” in which to corral microwaves and other conspicuously 21st-century appliances; open shelving where vintage copper pots rub shoulders with ancestral oil paintings. Think of it as the “old-money look” for kitchens.

Search resuls for: "deVOL"

4 mentions found