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The Marais A is a good choice for a kitchen desk area. In this kitchen, it coordinates with matching counter stools, like the ones you'll see in the next picture.

Here's another kitchen with vintage-modern touches, but applied with a lighter hand than in the previous photo. The light-colored tiles, cabinets and counters keep this kitchen fresh and streamlined. Details like the schoolhouse lights, bin pulls and other cabinet hardware, and mid-century cafe chair add cottage personality. Also, a modern chef needs spot for finding recipes online!

6. Have the desk moonlight as a baking center. If you don't want to sacrifice a whole section of your kitchen for a desk that you might use a few times a week, let it do double-duty as a baking center, bar or serving station. All you have to do is drop the counter down 6" from the standard counter height of 36" to 30" and voila, you have the perfect height for both baking and writing.

If your child feels trapped away in his room studying all night, invite him into the kitchen by adding a workstation there. This keeps him part of the activity while you prepare dinner, and you can be sure he gets all his homework done.

There’s perhaps no better place in the home for a computer than the kitchen. It’s where we spend the most time and of course, the heart of any home. From accessing shared schedules, video chatting with family and friends while cooking, downloading recipes, news and weather, doing homework, or monitoring a child’s online activity, some form of computing device will serve a family well.

Vintage modern: This kitchen is crisp yet detailed. The schoolhouse light fixtures, French cafe chair and stools, bin pull hardware and wood details on the cabinets contribute to the style.

No. 5 and 6. Change out that light fixture for something more vintage and architecturally interesting. And add a cute vintage chair to that naked looking desk area in your kitchen. Accessories like lighting and chairs can add so much style. Don't underestimate the power of a single well-chosen accessory.

7. While we saw fewer of these this year, all-white kitchens are still on many wish lists. We love the clean look of the off-white subway tile in this kitchen, which makes the bright white cabinetry and trim stand out.

Subway tile carried through out and the lighting fixtures

tile color

Great Wall with tiles

cabinets

kitchen cabinets, tile and lighting.....also marble counter tops

everything

really like

tile

bianco romano granite

Subway tile

tile around window

Backsplash ideas

like the desk in the kitchen

kitchen

Backsplash

bianco romano and backsplash

tiles

Tiles

Tiles

color

backsplash

splash tiles

tiles

bianco romano

good cupboards, knobs are good

Backsplash

Backsplash and counter top

Like the granite.

gray tile

Desk off kitchen

grey glass subway tiles?

Backsplash up around the windows

Counters, cupboards

very light and bright

Granite

Variation in the backsplash

cabinet style, pendant lights

Simple and versatile work station

3x6 gray subway white walls

color scheme

LIKE CABINETS, LIKE BACKSPLAXH

Desk, tile

small desk space for a laptop and small printer

Window

Everything

Wall tile, Bianco Romaso Granite and lighting

Backsplash

Backsplash

Cabinets, pulls

Lights

Seating area with laptop for inside pantry

Like lights, black hardware

Canisters

ann sacks subway tile

Cabs and backsplash.

white/gray kitchen

Color of backsplash

Ventada ficticia

Backsplash

Like this tile

Color scheme

These countertops are the bianca bahia

light grey subway

Kitchen back splash

Backsplash and countertops neutral colors

Tile

monotone effect; subway tile don't like fixtures--dont fit

Kitchen windows

clean subway tile

desk area

Nice kitchen.

white palmas granite

Worktop and cabinets

Countertop

tiles

simple cabinets

I like grey and silver again and what about desk at counter

Backsplash and built-ins

Brick wall

back splash

counter

Tiles?

Pendant light for over kitchen island

very pretty

subway tile offset

I like the desk

top cabinet doors extend over the beam

Brentwood

Kitchen cabinets

tile around window

handles and cuboard facade

Countertop is granite.

Wall tiles

Subway tile

Schoolhouse lights

Thoughts on keeping all lightcolors

back splash up to ceiling

maybe desk on the end toward den under the window

Hardware, subway tile

Kitchen lighting??

Schoolhouse lights

Desk

couleur

White doors and light grey splashback

backsplash

Michael s smith signature by Ann saks

I like these glass subway tiles

Love tiles

Cabinets and countertops

Tile

Back splash

Subway tile. Light fixtures cabinets

Kitchen

HATE THE COUNTERTOPS

tile

Backsplash

White kitchen

Off white subway tile

Tile

vintage and sleek. school house fixtures

desk area

cabinets and backsplash

backsplash

hardware, cabinet

Kitchen and tiles

marble and cabnets

tile around window

Cabinets

backsplash

White kitchen

cabinets

lights, backsplash, countertops

Cupboard wraps around bulkhead

subway tile (light?)

desk for butlers pantry?

like the subway tile and the countertops

tile white kitchen

Cabinets

Like the granite

like the chair for the mudroom desk

Like

backsplash

Color

i like the area for working

lights

Kitchen

Lights

tile

Okna

Desk

desk part of kitchen

Kitchen

subway tile

Grey backsplash

Nice tile

desk in kitchen

The countertops, lighting fixtures. Walls n clean look

Lighting

Kitchen

alternative to marble countertops white on white

White on white. Tile/cabs. Hdwe Pendants

everything

window

back splash color

Backsplash

white cabinets, subway tile, black accents

love the lights

shaker cabinet

Desk

kitchen desk

Pendent light

White kitchen-counters

tile

Complete tile surround window

tiles

backsplash

Le doseret qui couvert tout le mur

light grey subway tile with white cabinets

backsplash

Tiles

Tile

Cupboards

Tile &counter

Subway tile color

nice tile and light

schoolhouse electric

Granite counter option

really pretty finishes--justin would not like the drawer pulls

backsplash color