<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.remain-silent.com/cm/kitchenenvy/eclectickitchen_hth.jpg" alt="eclectic kewl" width="450" height="453" /></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">image via <a href="http://www.housetohome.co.uk/kitchen/picture/colourful-kitchen-5">house to home</a></span></p>

While I've been enamoured with New England style of late, I can't help but gravitate back to who I am when it comes to envying kitchen spaces. I like colour, pattern, an abundance of textures and vintage. However, I like all these things to be anchored with the restraint of a classic edge - mouldings, glass, turned-leg tables and white paint. 

This space above from <a href="http://www.housetohome.co.uk/kitchen/picture/colourful-kitchen-5">house to home</a> checks all those points and then some. Classic moulding on high cabinets in pale colours provide a basis for a highly patterned multi-coloured sofa to exude it's character as well as for a vintage SMEG style fridge to strut it's stuff. 

A 'traditional' white ceiling with recessed lighting is accentuated by a disco ball positioned to catch the daylight as well as any night time tungsten lighting. 

A vintage blanket fashioned as a rug, vintage crates on the shelf a mix of fixed cabinets and repurposed floating ones...this space has personality, poise and class. Just the sort of space I would love to cook in. 

