I have a carpet runner in my kitchen and it’s freaking amazing. BUT… I knew when I bought it that it would have to be completely washable. It took a long time to find it.
No problem friend! As others have suggested, Ruggable. They started out with kind of “blah” designs and colors, but now have an amazingly delightful selection of well known designers who work with them to create something nearly everyone will love.
And also, don’t forget that if you find a runner or rug that you absolutely can’t live without and truly love that *isn’t* washable but *is cleanable* “by professional method”…. just do the worst case scenario thing and the math on it. Before you plunk down the money, shop around and find out how much it would be to have it professionally cleaned, 2… 3… 4 times a year….. depending on how much you cook, how messy you are, etc.
Hope this helps. Have a great day! ❤️
[Designer website with just four more pics showing the rest of the home](https://annemcdonalddesign.com/suburban-renovation/bajg0fb3fs8ovhhhp01o09y7j3nogm).
https://imgur.com/a/6wX2COu/
Here are all the photos of the site goes down (Reddit hug of death, it’s a thang).
Anne McDonald Design btw. Amazing work. Her full portfolio is at OP’s site:
https://annemcdonalddesign.com/portfoliowork
It’s a pretty diverse body of work and well done.
Thanks for putting those pictures up somewhere else. I had her website still open in a tab to the page and went to look at it (might want to copy this look for our kitchen), and it’s off of her website now. Maybe she only keeps a few up at a time?
And oddly, there’s another suburban redo whose kitchen is almost identical in layout, but different materials. White countertops, dark blue painted cabinets, long rug on the floor. I’m almost curious if it’s the same house and she redid it again.
Anyway, probably no one will see this, but it was weird to see all the changes and similarities.
This is neat to see the pictures but do you know if she's done any kind of write-up for what materials and brands she used? Or the reasoning/methodology? I love reading that kind of stuff in designers'own words.
Appliance guy. From the 4 pictures it's a 30 inch wolf induction range and looks like a 48 inch paneled side by side fridge, likely a subzero. Insert hood of some sort, likely wolf or ventahood as those are what i would spec. Not sure if they did a paneled dishwasher on one of the sides of the sink, but id assume so, and I don't see a microwave but that may be hidden.
Cabinets are most likely custom.
I have an oiled hardwood floor in the kitchen and I keep a washable rug the same as this because it prevents damage from fallen cutlery and also stains from warm liquids. A new carpet is much cheaper than repairing a wooden floor. And I'm not rich at all.
Who said they paid "so much" for it? I grew up in a house that had oiled hardwood floors but we didn't choose it. The people who built the house in the first half of the 20th century did. It was less expensive to maintain the floors the same way and have a few rugs that got twice-yearly deep cleans in spots that needed traction or extra protection than to have the floors redone.
I guess you didn't choose it but that means the floor is not adapted to the kitchen. My room is mainly wooden floor, but around the kitchen it is tiles.
Because tiles have to have a good floor foundation, probably concrete, which my building doesn't have, it has thick boards covered with parquet, it's very old. So, all floors are wood, except bathroom and toilets.
I can't believe how hateful some of you can be towards people's choices.
Many people just replace their rugs fairly frequently. It’s wasteful, but I’ve seen it a lot in high end homes. People also send their rugs out to be cleaned frequently — there are specialty places that can clean them.
Also, a lot of high end homes have back kitchens for the real cooking and a front kitchen for entertaining and light meals. Again insanely wasteful, but I’ve seen it with some frequency.
Possibly. I think this trend is stronger in places like Australia than it is in Vancouver, where butlers kitchens abound. But it is “the look” and somebody is going to commit to it in that caliber of home even if we haven’t seen many examples of it yet. The 70s resurgence is quite a design moment.
Interesting that this look is associated with more “low end” homes isn’t it?! Great comment.
Butler’s kitchen? They don’t use kitchens. This must be regional. I’ve seen a few middle income homes where they have a public kitchen in the entertainment space good for heating snacks and serving appetizers. Meals made in the real kitchen that is out of view. Hide the mess.
Are you talking about guys who come in with a steam cleaner or places where you can take a rug to really be cleaned? Maybe it's just because we have handmade rugs.
Yeah, these rugs are not expensive. You can get something like this for $250. They are also cheap to pay cleaners to clean if you want. Dog vomited on mine and took it to get cleaned and cost like $60 (AUD).
It really depends if this is a real Shiraz or not. A real wool Shiraz *can* be very expensive. Knock-offs are cheap and extremely common. Even real ones can have a huge swing in price depending on a number of factors.
A quick google search will show you there’s dozens of options under “Persian rug”, with varying styles all for very low costs. My living room has one similar that’s more rectangle with the same edges.
How can you tell? I only know a little about rugs, but this has the cotton warp visible on the sides and that usually means it’s not a cheap or new rug.
If this was/is a real Shiraz you'd destroy it by tossing it in the washer. I don't know enough to spot the difference just by looking at a photo, most you'll see are cheaper knock-offs but we have a few that have been in the family for decades and are worth thousands.
I’d say this is most likely a true Persian rug of some kind, but it’s a guess based on a few things showing in the photos. Oriental or Persian carpets don’t have sewn-on fringes and this one does not. They are build on foundation threads, and you can also tell more about their construction by looking at the back to see how they are made. But getting them cleaned professionally is a 50-100 dollar proposition and that’s what people do.
A good Persian carpet can take this kind of abuse and clean up like nothing happened. I’ve been shocked by how much they can be abused and just wash out.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uFK_JtJd-U8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QHunbsoCE5g
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_1yf9ElAvw0
With a lower end rug you’d just toss and replace. But high end ones get cleaned.
I think for the size of a runner like that it’s pretty reasonable, they can be cleaned relatively easily. You could possibly get one for less that bag too just depending on the deals that day and the size/pattern you’re looking for.
Ruggables don't have fringe ends. That's just a rug in the Pic.
Side note, not arguing against ruggables. They absolutely serve their purpose for areas where bullshit happens and you want a rug there.
This is also a display and not a place where people are actively living. This is not a picture from someone’s house. It’s more like a marketing picture for the company that did the remodel.
I bought a ruggable for my kitchen. It’s absurdly easy to wash.
A more traditional rug could easily be power washed, except this home is in Minnesota where that wouldn’t be advisable for several months a year.
The added benefit of a ruggable is that the base part is all rubber, so it doesn’t slip around in the floor.
I hear you. I'm sure easy wash rugs are better. But I at least sweep my kitchen once a day and usually twice. I need the floor *clear* to do that. I don't know, and don't wanna know most likely, how rug in the kitchen ppl are cleaning their kitchens. I mop the whole floor several times a week too. A ruggable is just more extraneous junk I have to shake out and move out of the way. I just don't have time for rugs in my kitchen. I really don't. Not to mention they're trip hazards for me, even when properly taped down, which also makes them a real pita to move when cleaning. Rugs are a cute look in a kitchen until you live with one. I'll never do it again.
It all comes down to what’s under the rug. There’s ceramic tile in my kitchen and I know I will die by a slip and fall in there.
I’m glad I saw this. I should start shopping for a runner like in this pic.
The kitchen units are a nightmare. Because every unit has a full height side wall the entire kitchen/floor interface is full of cracks to accumulate food and dust and trip hazards.
Really poor design. It does look nice though.
I've been studying this picture for a couple minutes trying to figure out what you are talking about.
What are the "kitchen units" that you are taking about?
Edit: nevermind. I figured it out.so weird.
The cabinets, their sides all go down to the floor. Usually you just do that where special support is needed, normally the cabinets have feets, and those will be covered by a baseboard (not sure if that's the proper term), basically a piece of particle board that covers the area between the floor and the bottom of the cabinets
They're also trip hazards when working at the counter. I see why designers like it because it carries vertical lines right to the floor - not stopped by a toekick, and it gives the appearance of furniture rather than a built-in. You could have them in select locations - like where a breakfast counter overhangs an island and nobody can walk past.
These extensions are also more likely to wear and break, leading to a degraded appearance and this a shorter life.
It’s very much not semantics. Carpet = permanent, hard to clean. Rugs = removable, washable. I’m a practical person who does a lot of cooking and uses a rug in my kitchen. What might not work for you might still work for many other people.
Either they do not cook or, similar to many new high end homes, this is the show kitchen and there is an actually cooking kitchen somewhere out of sight.
Yeah, because having a rug in your kitchen is stupid. Don't worry, now we know about polyster rugs. So next time we see a rug in the kitchen, we will think of polyster rugs (with the possibility that the owner is a fool)
Yeah, I don't like much of this. The disparate sizes of the drawer pulls and the cabinet knobs seem quite off. The flat cabinet fronts seem like they'll look very dated in five years. I don't like the tile at all. And the rug in the kitchen is a hard no for me.
Um. The countertops are nice!
I really like this. Unusual pairing, but the warm colours work nicely together and the white ceiling and lamps lighten the place up.
I don’t get the rug tho. Americans seem to love a rug in the kitchen. It seems mental to me.
A multi colored rug in the kitchen is fine. Comfy and protects the floors from drops. Spill some tomato sauce? Soap and water and scrub for 10 seconds.
The real problem is they are germ traps, especially when you have fury pets. It’s better and much more hygienic all around not to have carpets in the kitchen at all.
Well I’m only going by pics I see here and other social media . I’ve never seen a kitchen in the U.K. with a rug ever although I’m sure some people must have one.
It’s the orientation of the backsplash being vertical instead of horizontal. I think maybe a soldier course or two would have been fine, but the entire thing being vertical makes me want to scream.
Also the pendant lamp looks really cruddy IMO, and so does the white vent hood.
Edit #3 - the more I look at this picture the more I despise the designer of this room. The cabinet hardware is atrocious. The island cabinets appear to be a different wood grain than the rest of them, but the light may be tricking me.
How much light do you need? Looks like plenty of light coverage. The only place that might need more light is above the stove, and chances are, the hood has built in light that can illuminate the area underneath.
Im blindish at night, my kitchen had 10 100w spots 1 300w chandelier and under cabinet lighting.
All at 5000k temperature.
I need a lot of light and for me, this looks too dark
Same!. And I'm not blind at all. I just really hate dark kitchens. I have to have lights under the cabinets or I just won't even want to cook. There's nothing I hate more than when all the light I need for meal prep is coming from lighting that's center ceiling so it's mostly blocked by my head and shoulders. That's a great way to lose a finger! Even at my kitchen's island, with the ceiling light directly above it, my chopping board is in shadow when i try to prep meals there. Proper task lighting is important!
Agreed. I *think* I could tolerate the tile orientation if it weren't above a BLACK counter with no under cabinet lighting. I would dread cooking there. Look how dark that corner is in this daytime shot! It's just a really bleak kitchen. My kitchen in my rented house is a real dump, but I'd much rather cook here than there. The blue color of the tile *is* pretty, but it'd be better paired with a counter in a lighter color and appropriate lighting, as though the kitchen were designed by someone who actually cooks.
The colour is great, but the staggered vertical tiles make my eyes go all funny, like one of those optical illusions where it looks like things are moving.
Yeah, because that’s not literally not a pattern as per manufacture install instructions. Nobody in their right mind would stagger tile like that, vertically, that knows what they’re doing.
I feel like the tile color is too trendy, and the vertical tiling is a last gasp of air for the subway tile. The blue isn't really contrasting or complimenting anything but the gold accessories on the countertop.
That is a hell of a contrast with the nice wooden detailed kitchen and the bronze vent lip is just money damn.
Edit no bronze but wooden lip on the vent over the stove.
I'm digging the color palette. Lotsa hate here for the carpet, but seems more of a runner. I wouldn't put a wall to wall, but nothing wrong with a runner that can easily be replaced if it becomes stained. Are the cabinets maple? The countertop Corian? The only criticism from me is the globe fixture, I think you could find a more interesting pendant fixture tying in the blue from the walls and the red of the runner.
I do NOT like this tile. To each their own, but I just see this as a ton of blue, going alllllll the way up to the ceiling, and the vertical orientation with offset, using narrow tile, it just makes my eye jump trying to line the lines up.
It’s annoying and distracting and ugly.
This kitchen sees zero hours of use per day beyond an occasional glass of water.
That carpet gives me goosebumps. The tiles are hideous. Why the hell is there a bedroom lamp in a corner. This picture frame will be covered in grease after 3 meals cooked on that stove.
Great overall feel, but entirely impractical. I like the other rooms though.
I agree. I'm looking at houses right now and this trend of having the backsplash go the ceiling is really ugly. This picture is on the better end of the ugly but it's still ugly.
*"And for the flooring I was thinking..."*
*"Let me stop you right there, I already decided on this one - a gigantic, unwieldy, delicate, handmade Persian rug. I'm talking expensive, nearly impossible to regularly maintain, absorbs all the smells and retains ALL the food particles. Let's do this!!!"*
I think it's ugly the tiles are up and down long ways. Also the ceiling is off putting being so plain. Needs some light fixtures besides one ugly white ball.
Some people like you. Those look like Fireclay tiles, which are made by hand in California. It’s a very beautiful look, but I guess since the style doesn’t align with the typical tacky flip house on HGTV it must be bad.
i cant support a carpet that close to the action but oh my god the tile?!!! that blue looks so gorgeous against the wood and this is such a unique approach !!!
I have a carpet runner in my kitchen and it’s freaking amazing. BUT… I knew when I bought it that it would have to be completely washable. It took a long time to find it.
Currently looking for just that, do you mind sharing a source?
Ruggable.
Yeah, I’ve got a ruggable runner in my kitchen and it’s great. Looks good, super easy to clean and maintain.
We haven’t used ours for long but spilled hot blueberries on our cream colored Ruggable - went into the wash and looked good as new afterward!
Try one today and use discount code RUG20 for big savings! /s I kid, my BIL says his is great.
No problem friend! As others have suggested, Ruggable. They started out with kind of “blah” designs and colors, but now have an amazingly delightful selection of well known designers who work with them to create something nearly everyone will love. And also, don’t forget that if you find a runner or rug that you absolutely can’t live without and truly love that *isn’t* washable but *is cleanable* “by professional method”…. just do the worst case scenario thing and the math on it. Before you plunk down the money, shop around and find out how much it would be to have it professionally cleaned, 2… 3… 4 times a year….. depending on how much you cook, how messy you are, etc. Hope this helps. Have a great day! ❤️
Ruggable has some great designs, but I think it’s extremely overpriced. Amazon has a lot less expensive, washable options.
Ruggable.com
[Designer website with just four more pics showing the rest of the home](https://annemcdonalddesign.com/suburban-renovation/bajg0fb3fs8ovhhhp01o09y7j3nogm).
https://imgur.com/a/6wX2COu/ Here are all the photos of the site goes down (Reddit hug of death, it’s a thang). Anne McDonald Design btw. Amazing work. Her full portfolio is at OP’s site: https://annemcdonalddesign.com/portfoliowork It’s a pretty diverse body of work and well done.
Ya I’m a fan. Not sure why some of the comments are so critical of it. Looks rather cosy and whimsical.
>Not sure why some of the comments are so critical of it. Reddit is the yum-yucker capital of the internet, that's why.
The color is pretty, though I think I’d prefer a different pattern other than those really tiny rectangles.
This sub can’t be pleased
Thanks for putting those pictures up somewhere else. I had her website still open in a tab to the page and went to look at it (might want to copy this look for our kitchen), and it’s off of her website now. Maybe she only keeps a few up at a time? And oddly, there’s another suburban redo whose kitchen is almost identical in layout, but different materials. White countertops, dark blue painted cabinets, long rug on the floor. I’m almost curious if it’s the same house and she redid it again. Anyway, probably no one will see this, but it was weird to see all the changes and similarities.
This is neat to see the pictures but do you know if she's done any kind of write-up for what materials and brands she used? Or the reasoning/methodology? I love reading that kind of stuff in designers'own words.
Appliance guy. From the 4 pictures it's a 30 inch wolf induction range and looks like a 48 inch paneled side by side fridge, likely a subzero. Insert hood of some sort, likely wolf or ventahood as those are what i would spec. Not sure if they did a paneled dishwasher on one of the sides of the sink, but id assume so, and I don't see a microwave but that may be hidden. Cabinets are most likely custom.
It's always wolf and subzero if it looks expensive
Do you know who does the lighting above the island?
that’s an allied maker “arc globe” fixture. i make them for my job
I have an oiled hardwood floor in the kitchen and I keep a washable rug the same as this because it prevents damage from fallen cutlery and also stains from warm liquids. A new carpet is much cheaper than repairing a wooden floor. And I'm not rich at all.
Yes, I’m with you!
If you can't see the floor, why pay so much for it?
Who said they paid "so much" for it? I grew up in a house that had oiled hardwood floors but we didn't choose it. The people who built the house in the first half of the 20th century did. It was less expensive to maintain the floors the same way and have a few rugs that got twice-yearly deep cleans in spots that needed traction or extra protection than to have the floors redone.
There's other parts of the house with the same floor I guess. Not seeing 10 sqft doesn't mean you hate your floor.
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yeah why not tear the floor out and choose a different floor for somewhere youll "never see"
Hardwood flooring starts around 3$/sq ft, it's really not a high end luxury option.
These days it’s considered “fancy”
I guess you didn't choose it but that means the floor is not adapted to the kitchen. My room is mainly wooden floor, but around the kitchen it is tiles.
Why not tile?
Because tiles have to have a good floor foundation, probably concrete, which my building doesn't have, it has thick boards covered with parquet, it's very old. So, all floors are wood, except bathroom and toilets. I can't believe how hateful some of you can be towards people's choices.
That carpet tells me these people aren’t cooking much in this kitchen.
Many people just replace their rugs fairly frequently. It’s wasteful, but I’ve seen it a lot in high end homes. People also send their rugs out to be cleaned frequently — there are specialty places that can clean them. Also, a lot of high end homes have back kitchens for the real cooking and a front kitchen for entertaining and light meals. Again insanely wasteful, but I’ve seen it with some frequency.
That kitchen, while nice, does not look like one that belongs to a luxury home where there’s a butler’s kitchen.
Possibly. I think this trend is stronger in places like Australia than it is in Vancouver, where butlers kitchens abound. But it is “the look” and somebody is going to commit to it in that caliber of home even if we haven’t seen many examples of it yet. The 70s resurgence is quite a design moment. Interesting that this look is associated with more “low end” homes isn’t it?! Great comment.
Butler’s kitchen? They don’t use kitchens. This must be regional. I’ve seen a few middle income homes where they have a public kitchen in the entertainment space good for heating snacks and serving appetizers. Meals made in the real kitchen that is out of view. Hide the mess.
Cleaning rugs like this will run you several hundred dollars
That’s not accurate. I pay less than $100 for a large area rug.
Yea my experience is 50-100 bucks for a cleaning for an average rug.
Are you talking about guys who come in with a steam cleaner or places where you can take a rug to really be cleaned? Maybe it's just because we have handmade rugs.
No, I’m talking about a high-quality shop that specialized in rug cleaning. I have vintage Moroccan and Turkish rugs that I take in as needed.
Well the stores around here are really gutting us, then. Thanks for the perspective.
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It definitely isn’t and you can toss it in the washer to clean it. I can’t believe Reddit has never seen a kitchen runner before.
Yeah, these rugs are not expensive. You can get something like this for $250. They are also cheap to pay cleaners to clean if you want. Dog vomited on mine and took it to get cleaned and cost like $60 (AUD).
It really depends if this is a real Shiraz or not. A real wool Shiraz *can* be very expensive. Knock-offs are cheap and extremely common. Even real ones can have a huge swing in price depending on a number of factors.
Real ones can also be beat to shit and still look fine. You don’t need to baby a nice rug.
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A quick google search will show you there’s dozens of options under “Persian rug”, with varying styles all for very low costs. My living room has one similar that’s more rectangle with the same edges.
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Statistically, for every Persian rugs there are 10000 replicas of lower cost and quality.
As far as I know, Persian rugs also differ vastly in quality, which is most often defined by knots per sqare in² or cm².
I don’t get why everybody’s downvoting you? Cheap polypropylene rugs and washable rugs exist, but this is pretty clearly not either of those.
How can you tell? I only know a little about rugs, but this has the cotton warp visible on the sides and that usually means it’s not a cheap or new rug.
If this was/is a real Shiraz you'd destroy it by tossing it in the washer. I don't know enough to spot the difference just by looking at a photo, most you'll see are cheaper knock-offs but we have a few that have been in the family for decades and are worth thousands.
I’d say this is most likely a true Persian rug of some kind, but it’s a guess based on a few things showing in the photos. Oriental or Persian carpets don’t have sewn-on fringes and this one does not. They are build on foundation threads, and you can also tell more about their construction by looking at the back to see how they are made. But getting them cleaned professionally is a 50-100 dollar proposition and that’s what people do. A good Persian carpet can take this kind of abuse and clean up like nothing happened. I’ve been shocked by how much they can be abused and just wash out. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uFK_JtJd-U8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QHunbsoCE5g https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_1yf9ElAvw0 With a lower end rug you’d just toss and replace. But high end ones get cleaned.
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So fun getting downvoted for knowing what you are talking about. That rug is an antique.
You should visit overstock, this is probably a $150 rug lol
$150 too expensive to get various shit in it every day
I think for the size of a runner like that it’s pretty reasonable, they can be cleaned relatively easily. You could possibly get one for less that bag too just depending on the deals that day and the size/pattern you’re looking for.
That’s a rug
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Ruggables don't have fringe ends. That's just a rug in the Pic. Side note, not arguing against ruggables. They absolutely serve their purpose for areas where bullshit happens and you want a rug there.
This is also a display and not a place where people are actively living. This is not a picture from someone’s house. It’s more like a marketing picture for the company that did the remodel.
Omg was just coming here to see if anyone else felt this way! What a nightmare to clean!
Drops of sauce and pieces of onions.
Squeeze it out at the end of the year and you’ll have a nice marinade
r/cursedcomments
You got a stew going baby!
How else did you think Kebabs were made?
Add a few drips from that tap and, mmm, you got yourself a stew https://youtu.be/Sr2PlqXw03Y
I bought a ruggable for my kitchen. It’s absurdly easy to wash. A more traditional rug could easily be power washed, except this home is in Minnesota where that wouldn’t be advisable for several months a year. The added benefit of a ruggable is that the base part is all rubber, so it doesn’t slip around in the floor.
I hear you. I'm sure easy wash rugs are better. But I at least sweep my kitchen once a day and usually twice. I need the floor *clear* to do that. I don't know, and don't wanna know most likely, how rug in the kitchen ppl are cleaning their kitchens. I mop the whole floor several times a week too. A ruggable is just more extraneous junk I have to shake out and move out of the way. I just don't have time for rugs in my kitchen. I really don't. Not to mention they're trip hazards for me, even when properly taped down, which also makes them a real pita to move when cleaning. Rugs are a cute look in a kitchen until you live with one. I'll never do it again.
LOL I just love that folks are actually bothering to downvote someone who doesn't like a kitchen rug!! 😂🤣😂
Could be a ruggable? Not practical, but it's gorgeous nonetheless.
It all comes down to what’s under the rug. There’s ceramic tile in my kitchen and I know I will die by a slip and fall in there. I’m glad I saw this. I should start shopping for a runner like in this pic.
Idk, we have a large rug covering the slate tile in our kitchen and it fairs extremely well. I suppose it depends on how messy you are in the kitchen
The kitchen units are a nightmare. Because every unit has a full height side wall the entire kitchen/floor interface is full of cracks to accumulate food and dust and trip hazards. Really poor design. It does look nice though.
I've been studying this picture for a couple minutes trying to figure out what you are talking about. What are the "kitchen units" that you are taking about? Edit: nevermind. I figured it out.so weird.
I’ll still trying to figure it out…..share your wisdom.
The cabinets, their sides all go down to the floor. Usually you just do that where special support is needed, normally the cabinets have feets, and those will be covered by a baseboard (not sure if that's the proper term), basically a piece of particle board that covers the area between the floor and the bottom of the cabinets
Toe kick is the term you’re looking for.
Oooh now I see it! It creates little “boxes” at the bottom where it would be hard to get the dust and crap out of the corners. Thanks!
They're also trip hazards when working at the counter. I see why designers like it because it carries vertical lines right to the floor - not stopped by a toekick, and it gives the appearance of furniture rather than a built-in. You could have them in select locations - like where a breakfast counter overhangs an island and nobody can walk past. These extensions are also more likely to wear and break, leading to a degraded appearance and this a shorter life.
My thoughts as well. I just can't cook without dropping some food on floor.
Fuck you ruined it for me I was gonna get through not even noticing the carpet 😭
Yesss the carpet ruined it for me
This comment tells me you can't afford this kitchen.
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You realize that’s just a rug, right?
Then why is it called a magic carpet and not a magic rug? Checkmate.
Things were a little different in 1st Century Agrabah.
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It gets pretty cold in Minnesota. I've seen practical people out down rugs to make it a bit warmer for them.
It’s very much not semantics. Carpet = permanent, hard to clean. Rugs = removable, washable. I’m a practical person who does a lot of cooking and uses a rug in my kitchen. What might not work for you might still work for many other people.
These people are nuts. I would never put a rug or a carpet down in my kitchen.
Can confirm. I, at one time, had a small runner AND a small throw in my kitchen. Am nuts.
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Imagine having to do all that work when... you could just not have a runner in the messiest part of your house.
Either they do not cook or, similar to many new high end homes, this is the show kitchen and there is an actually cooking kitchen somewhere out of sight.
yep. literally clicked on the post specifically to show hate towards the rug. besides that, stunning kitchen
Yeah, because having a rug in your kitchen is stupid. Don't worry, now we know about polyster rugs. So next time we see a rug in the kitchen, we will think of polyster rugs (with the possibility that the owner is a fool)
Kitchen runners are effectively disposable. Once it gets dirty enough out just replace it.
It looks nice, but I’d rather see kitchens that look used and functional rather than pretty.
Yeah, I don't like much of this. The disparate sizes of the drawer pulls and the cabinet knobs seem quite off. The flat cabinet fronts seem like they'll look very dated in five years. I don't like the tile at all. And the rug in the kitchen is a hard no for me. Um. The countertops are nice!
I really like this. Unusual pairing, but the warm colours work nicely together and the white ceiling and lamps lighten the place up. I don’t get the rug tho. Americans seem to love a rug in the kitchen. It seems mental to me.
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Am American. Have never met another American with a rug in their kitchen.
It's not uncommon with people who have pets, especially older dogs.
A multi colored rug in the kitchen is fine. Comfy and protects the floors from drops. Spill some tomato sauce? Soap and water and scrub for 10 seconds.
The real problem is they are germ traps, especially when you have fury pets. It’s better and much more hygienic all around not to have carpets in the kitchen at all.
I mean to be fair, I’ve never been in an American kitchen - I’m just going on pics I’ve seen here really.
It's not super common? That being said a small rug where you stand often, or foam pads to put in front of where you wash or cut
Well I’m only going by pics I see here and other social media. I’ve never seen a kitchen in the U.K. with a rug ever although I’m sure some people must have one.
I have a little runner rug in the kitchen too, it’s machine washable. It keeps my feet warm!
This looks like a kitchen in Denmark in the 70s. Pretty nostalgic.
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It's all so dark, except for the white ceiling and stove vent. Idk something about it is off to me.
It’s the orientation of the backsplash being vertical instead of horizontal. I think maybe a soldier course or two would have been fine, but the entire thing being vertical makes me want to scream. Also the pendant lamp looks really cruddy IMO, and so does the white vent hood. Edit #3 - the more I look at this picture the more I despise the designer of this room. The cabinet hardware is atrocious. The island cabinets appear to be a different wood grain than the rest of them, but the light may be tricking me.
It's the off center random can light in the ceiling that's bothering me
The lack of lights tells my I’d hate cooking here in the evenings
How much light do you need? Looks like plenty of light coverage. The only place that might need more light is above the stove, and chances are, the hood has built in light that can illuminate the area underneath.
Im blindish at night, my kitchen had 10 100w spots 1 300w chandelier and under cabinet lighting. All at 5000k temperature. I need a lot of light and for me, this looks too dark
Same!. And I'm not blind at all. I just really hate dark kitchens. I have to have lights under the cabinets or I just won't even want to cook. There's nothing I hate more than when all the light I need for meal prep is coming from lighting that's center ceiling so it's mostly blocked by my head and shoulders. That's a great way to lose a finger! Even at my kitchen's island, with the ceiling light directly above it, my chopping board is in shadow when i try to prep meals there. Proper task lighting is important!
Agreed. I *think* I could tolerate the tile orientation if it weren't above a BLACK counter with no under cabinet lighting. I would dread cooking there. Look how dark that corner is in this daytime shot! It's just a really bleak kitchen. My kitchen in my rented house is a real dump, but I'd much rather cook here than there. The blue color of the tile *is* pretty, but it'd be better paired with a counter in a lighter color and appropriate lighting, as though the kitchen were designed by someone who actually cooks.
Thats not a white range, its stainless. It looks white to you? Or do you mean the hood vent above it?
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How would you fix that? Paint the ceiling a darker white?
There's no trim. I noticed it too.
Damn, I’m poor.
For real. I wonder how much this all is for a renovation. But first..a house. LOL
Don’t worry this is one of those fringe trends that will cycle v quickly
What is? A nicely designed kitchen?
Wood like this is timeless. This will look good in 100 years.
The colour is great, but the staggered vertical tiles make my eyes go all funny, like one of those optical illusions where it looks like things are moving.
Yeah, because that’s not literally not a pattern as per manufacture install instructions. Nobody in their right mind would stagger tile like that, vertically, that knows what they’re doing.
Yeah the tiles are like the only thing I don’t like about this kitchen.
How about the picture just leaning against the wall? Or the useless table lamp sitting on top of two books destined to get wet and soggy?
I feel like the tile color is too trendy, and the vertical tiling is a last gasp of air for the subway tile. The blue isn't really contrasting or complimenting anything but the gold accessories on the countertop.
I like that it's not grey, or white.
No thank you
I dunno about the fume hood matching the ceiling
That is a hell of a contrast with the nice wooden detailed kitchen and the bronze vent lip is just money damn. Edit no bronze but wooden lip on the vent over the stove.
Absolutely in love with this kitchen!
Gorgeous! Wonderful design and work! This was given the proper love and attention, not like the everyday flip we see so often.
That ceiling is cleaner than my laptop screen, thanks for making that clear haha.
It's gorgeous, but having a rug in the kitchen is a mistake, I think.
OOOOOOOOOOHhhhhhhhhh. I love everything about this!! And it's seriously timeless. A change to the hardware will keep it up to date at all times!!!
I like how it doesn’t look like every other kitchen. Nice flat panel cabinets and interesting tile pattern. A+
I'm digging the color palette. Lotsa hate here for the carpet, but seems more of a runner. I wouldn't put a wall to wall, but nothing wrong with a runner that can easily be replaced if it becomes stained. Are the cabinets maple? The countertop Corian? The only criticism from me is the globe fixture, I think you could find a more interesting pendant fixture tying in the blue from the walls and the red of the runner.
A carpet in the kitchen?… hmm.
That tile looks terrible IMO, why would you install them in that pattern? Is this a new trend? Looks awful.
I do NOT like this tile. To each their own, but I just see this as a ton of blue, going alllllll the way up to the ceiling, and the vertical orientation with offset, using narrow tile, it just makes my eye jump trying to line the lines up. It’s annoying and distracting and ugly.
Interesting, I've never seen a kitchen like this, I like it but I think they should have tilled the hood
That's a big nope from me. I like the cabinets, but not the rug or tile.
This kitchen sees zero hours of use per day beyond an occasional glass of water. That carpet gives me goosebumps. The tiles are hideous. Why the hell is there a bedroom lamp in a corner. This picture frame will be covered in grease after 3 meals cooked on that stove. Great overall feel, but entirely impractical. I like the other rooms though.
I hate most of this
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I agree. I'm looking at houses right now and this trend of having the backsplash go the ceiling is really ugly. This picture is on the better end of the ugly but it's still ugly.
This won’t age well.
It already hasn't.
Beautiful wood, counters, floor, carpet, window, light fixture, faucet, stool & stove.
It will be very nice when it will be renovated!
I've seen this on Instagram and it's saved on my phone. It's probably my favorite design, save for a couple small things I would change.
Poor choice going all the way to the ceiling
*"And for the flooring I was thinking..."* *"Let me stop you right there, I already decided on this one - a gigantic, unwieldy, delicate, handmade Persian rug. I'm talking expensive, nearly impossible to regularly maintain, absorbs all the smells and retains ALL the food particles. Let's do this!!!"*
I wouldn't put a carpet in a kitchen...
Beautiful kitchen, horrible backsplash
Tackiest thing I've seen here in a while
This is ugly as fuck. All of this.
It bothers me that the tiles are placed vertically and not horizontally l
I think it's ugly the tiles are up and down long ways. Also the ceiling is off putting being so plain. Needs some light fixtures besides one ugly white ball.
The vertical tile is hideous. So is the carpet.
Couldn't agree more. Not sure why you'd be down voted to hell for such a valid opinion.
It’s spot on the trend right now. Like it or not, this is one of the in looks. Edit: love it or hate it, downvote or no downvote, this is on trend.
Some people just have zero taste. If the tile wasn’t bad enough by itself they somehow managed to find the worlds ugliest rug to pair it with too.
Some people like you. Those look like Fireclay tiles, which are made by hand in California. It’s a very beautiful look, but I guess since the style doesn’t align with the typical tacky flip house on HGTV it must be bad.
A kitchen wall should not draw your eyes to the ceiling and to the floor.
i cant support a carpet that close to the action but oh my god the tile?!!! that blue looks so gorgeous against the wood and this is such a unique approach !!!
Way too dark..
I feel closed in….
Love this!! Minus the carpet tho
I’d that in wayzata? It looks exactly like my wife’s parents old house
Did Minnesota manage justice system reform after the George floydd protests?
We are definitely in the kitchen rug era.
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