Latest Stories in Kitchen Design - Page 5
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Grow Your Own Meat in Electrolux Design Lab Winner
The Electrolux Design Lab competition always yields interesting results; this year competing industrial design students were asked to look way into the future, creating "Designs for the next 90 years." Swedish design student Rickard Hederstierna took
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Zappos.com Now Sells Recycled Glass Dishware
Image via: Zappos.com Zappos.com, that gigantic shoe website where you can get tasteful and tasteless (and even vegan) shoes at cheap prices, now sells Recycled Glassware? Yep, and with a name like Highbury Collection of Recycled Glassware Serving
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The Most Elegant Small Kitchen Yet Folds Into A Box
Kitchens that fold up and go away are a regular feature on TreeHugger; we love ideas that show how space can be used for multiple functions, and as Bucky Fuller said, "Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths
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Erika Storage Has A Place For Everything
We talk a lot about multifunction design, but also about minimalism and a place for everything, everything in its place. Therefore I am conflicted by this storage system shown on Materialicious and designed by Nils Holger
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Save Energy and Time With Ultrasonic Laundry
Modern Mechanix shows us how to save energy and time in the laundry room: Sound Waves get your wash clean, claims Robert Bosch of Stuttgart, Germany. This seven-pound machine works on principle of auto horn. Hooter must sound for five minutes. Cost is
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Recycled Glass Plates with a Purpose
For the last days of summer eating outside--a plate with a purpose. And a tree for readers of this blog who like the theme. Plates With Purpose is a series of specially designed glassware that is made out of
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Bambu Introduces Hybrid Cutting Boards Made From Cork, Bamboo
This past week's New York International Gift Fair marked the official debut of Bambu's latest offering: a "hybrid" cutting board composed of bamboo on one side and cork on the other. The sustainable home- and kitchenware company
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Rethinking the Kitchen: Flow2 kitchen by Studio Gorm
Studio Gorm built the Flow2 Kitchen for an exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Craft in Oregon; it is a "living kitchen where nature and technology are integrated in a symbiotic relationship, processes
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When it Comes to Fridges, Small is the New Big.
Architect Donald Chong taught us that Small Fridges Make Good Cities, so what does that make the Meneghini Cambusa? the Robert Moses of Fridges? the Godzilla of iceboxes?
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Movable "Bridge" Slides Over Kitchen, Saves Space
Kitchen islands can take up a lot of space. Justin at Materialicious found this clever idea from Italian kitchen manufacturer Xera: the wood counter slides out, providing a place to sit or work, while exposing the sink and range when opened. Clean up
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Summer Kitchens Make A Comeback In Style
Summer kitchens were very common a hundred years ago; a stove took a long time to heat up and cool down, and if you used it in the summer it would make the whole house unbearable. Then gas and electric ranges came into use, heating up much more
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Mode Designs Clean, Sleek System to Organize Recyclables
For communities that don't allow you to just toss all of your recyclables in one bin and leave them by the curb comes the Deluxe All-in-One-Recycling Center by Mode. It combines, it organizes,
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Just What We Needed Dept: The Rotato
Sometimes we just slap ourselves upside the head and say "how did I ever live without that?" That is why we have such big kitchens- to house our garlic express, our soda can disenfector, butter cutter and the automatic martini maker. But now we have to
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Colo Integrates Dishwasher, Sink and Storage
This is the way we should think about design. In most kitchens, there is a cupboard, a sink and a dishwasher. You empty the dishwasher by moving everything to the cupboard. Peter Schwartz and Helene Steiner of Wachshaus integrate them all together in
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Is "Green Disposable Cutlery" a Contradiction in Terms?
Aleem Virani complains that "for five months I have been sending tips to TreeHugger and you never show my product. " No wonder- he sells disposable cutlery, not exactly the most TreeHugger correct product when we encourage restaurants and customers to
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Twist Turns Cleaning Natural
Okay, I hate cleaning. But I like things clean. Also, I like stuff to last, so I don’t have to buy more, since I hate shopping, too. Yesterday, I wrote about eco-efficient household tips from Haley’s Hints Green Edition. Those old-fashioned ways of
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CoolDrawer Fridge in a Drawer
We have noted before that small fridges make good cities, and also that chest or drawer fridges can save energy and keep food better. Now Fisher Paykel gives us the works in a drawer that look good, too.
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One Pallet Kitchen Starts Small
Dutch designers Steie Van Vugt and Frank Winnubst call it "a flexible kitchen for the flexible lifestyle of the future." -a kitchen made from stacking components so that the entire kitchen can be stored on one pallet.
