Cold brew coffee is also hot as heck, though it, too, takes some prep time to steep. Fans say that makes for a more flavorful and less acidic brew. Cold brew’s popularity has skyrocketed in the past several years, according to the National Coffee Association’s fall 2023 trend report.
Minneapolis-based designer Lucy Penfield has put frosting-pink paint on the door of a baking area. Added snappy orange kitchen barstools. And in a family cabin, there’s now a fun, sunshine yellow Smeg retro fridge for beer storage.Color “creates a mood for the space, and can invite conversation,” she says.
Cortney Bishop, who runs a design studio in Charleston, South Carolina, also uses playful hues. A beach cottage got seafoam-blue Big Chill appliances, and a countertop is embedded with chunks that look like sea glass.In another kitchen, she used deep, dark color to frame windows and ground cabinetry, then added cheery notes of citrus and tomato via stools, artwork, canisters, even range knobs. The result: a space that’s packed with style and personality.John Cialone of the firm Tom Stringer Design Partners amped up the energy in a Palm Springs, California, villa by putting Benjamin Moore’s Kiwi paint color in the kitchen. “The home’s mainly a weekend house, so the clients were willing to go bold on cabinetry.” The vivid green is picked up elsewhere via artwork, accessories and textiles.
In his own kitchen, Cialone says, “I like bright, crisp countertops that reflect natural light and contrast with food. If I was adding color, it’d be orange, because it evokes sunshine and citrus – two of my favorite things!”Cialone loves to cook but says an organized galley kitchen’s fine with him.
“I’ve learned I don’t need a lot of counter space to prepare even elaborate meals, if the area’s well laid out,” he says. “Fitted drawer inserts make me very happy — they provide a dedicated space for items I use often.”
Got kids? Set up pantries with low bins for easy snack stowing. Proud of your cookbook collection? Featuring it in plain sight makes access easy, and creates a homey décor moment as well.’s latest, “Straw,” stars
as a struggling single mother who, desperate for money to pay for her daughter’s prescriptions, robs a bank. The film, co-starring Sherri Shepherd, Teyana Taylor and Sinbad, debuts Friday, June 6 on Netflix.— For anyone still mourning
streaming from Thursday on the Criterion Channel collects some of’s best films. That includes William Friedkin’s seminal 1971 New York thriller “The French Connection,” Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 masterpiece “The Conversation” and Wes Anderson’s “The Royal Tenenbaums,” a movie in which