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Culinary Curio: Clever Jam Jar Shelf De-Clutters & Doubles Storage Space

This shelf of inverted glass jars solves the problem of visual clutter while maximizing space.
A Moveable Feast: We Like Ike's Partio Portable Kitchen and Barbeque

President Eisenhower called his rolling kitchen "the most fantastic thing you ever saw."
Philippe Starck Designs Tower Kitchen

Another "loose fit" kitchen design that can float in a room. Does this idea have legs?
Clever Teacup Design Means One Less Thing To Clean

If you are trying to live with less, this clever design can help.
5 Green Kitchen Renovation Tips for the Design-Savvy

Greener is easier in the kitchen, with high-tech hoods, skinny tiles, gorgeous recycled glass countertops, and more.
Just What We Needed Dept.: The Carson Portable Rotisserie Grill

It is so James Bond-like cool, its like having "a licence to grill"
Crazy Steampunk Philips Concept Kitchen is Powered by Poop Gas (Slideshow)

The European kitchen and appliance designers, like Philips and Electrolux, often try to woo their customers with wild experimentation. At Philips, they are called "Design Probes" -- a research initiative that tracks trends and
Crazy Steampunk Philips Concept Kitchen is Powered by Poop Gas

The apppliance manufacturer's innovative home includes bees, bioluminescent bacteria, and electricity from poop gas.
Smart Kitchen Space-Saver: Dish Drying Closet Above The Sink

This Finnish innovation is a great alternative for drying your dishes if you're short on counter space.
Dumb-Bell Cutlery Lets You "Eat Yourself Skinny"

TreeHugger is always promoting a healthy diet and lots of exercise, so how could we pass on this simple way of combining the two. Dumb-Bell Cutlery gives you a work-out while you eat, with 1kg (2.2 lbs) knifes and 2 kg. dessert
"Loose Fit" May Work For Jeans, But Does It Make Sense For Kitchens?

The fitted "continuous kitchen", with base cabinets separate from wall cabinets and a continuous horizontal plane between for counter, range and sink, has been the standard since the mid thirties. No matter that 36" counters might work
A New Spin On The Dishwasher: A Rotating Sink/Washer Combo

Dishwashers are a real design problem; they have to adapt to all sizes and shapes of cutlery, dishes and glassware and never quite get it right. For single people or couples they are often oversized, wasting a lot of energy
Compact Kitchen Folds Up And Hides When Not Needed

Almost every kitchen you see, no matter how big or how small, seems to have the same form, an upper cabinet a foot deep, a lower cabinet two feet deep, and a counter in the middle. Really, little has changed since
A Brief History of the Kitchen From Core77

We recently did a very brief history of the fitted kitchen inIs It Time To Rethink the Built-In Kitchen?. For those who want a bit more information, Core77 has produced six parts of a history of the kitchen, starting with the work of Catharine Beecher
Artists For Humanity Youth Develop Plastic Bag Bar Stools (Photos)

From Artists for Humanity comes an innovative design that turns more than 200 plastic shopping, dry-cleaning or newspaper bags into a colorful plastic bar stool, called
Crazy Mobile Cooking Ideas From the Electrolux Competition

For the last nine years the big European appliance company, Electrolux, has run design competitions for industrial design students that have yielded remarkable results.
Portable Dishwasher Designed For Camping, But Would Work At Home

I have never understood dishwashers. They are not designed around the number of dishes one might use in a meal, they do not seem to be designed around the dishes and glasses that we use, we are always filling or emptying them. I
Organic Chef Anna Getty Explains Her Top 10 Kitchen Essentials

Photo credit: thebittenword.com/Creative Commons Join the eBay Green Team on Facebook and Twitter. Anna Getty is an organic chef, writer, green living expert. As the eponymous author of Anna Getty's Easy Green Organic, she nows how to setup and operate