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Kitchen Decor

Kitchen Decor From All Over the World

Here's some of our favorite kitchen decor for the sake of those who are setting up house for the first time or those who need to replenish.

We hope you find our kitchen decor as useful, delicious and decorative as we do. We think kitchen decor is an important speciality of the house. Our goal is to turn your ordinary kitchen accessories - from kitchen rugs, kitchen towels, kitchen aprons, kitchen clocks, cutting boards, to dustpans and more - into decorative kitchen accessories.

Kitchen Decor & Decorative Kitchen Accessories

DecorativeThings.com does not pretend to offer you everything a cook needs to stock a kitchen, since after all, our niche is decorative home decor. Yet to neglect such an important room would be unpardonable, so we offer you some kitchen accessories that will add a little cheer to the pots and pans in your kitchen decor.

One of our favorite kitchen cookbooks on the subject Plats du Jour, (available above) includes much advice about what kitchen decor is important but even the authors describe the hunt for kitchen accessories as a bit daunting:

"We know perfectly well many people live in far from modern homes and are cooking daily with possibly ancient but serviceable weapons. In discussing pots and pans here the intention is not to revile old equipment but to run over a basic list of utensils for the sake of those who are setting up house for the first time or who need to replenish.

It is always disturbing to be confronted with the listed regalia of kitchen implements, a natural reaction to the disparity between an ideal condition and the existing facts. If one examines the Batterie de Cuisine in L'Art Menagere de la Cuisine Francaise, for instance, a feeling of despair is more likely to take posession of an English woman rather than an immediate resolution to acquire some of the articles mentioned."

We recommend you start with few decorative things.

Even our kitchen cookbooks are kitchen decor, and a well stocked recipe library is as important as the bookshelf in a study. Plats du Jour and Kitchen Essays have endpapers that are taken from vintage designs and charming illustrations that are just what you would expect from cookbooks first issued in England in the early 1900's. Our newer kitchen cookbooks have amazing photography of course.

See our Kitchen Rugs on House Beautiful's "THE BEST!" list in September.

Kitchen Decor for Gifts:
We all spend so much time cooking and eating, why not give gifts that people can use as kitchen decor? We've assembled decorative kitchen accessories from all over the world: Kitchen towels, kitchen aprons and decorative kitchen fruit from Italy; kitchen cookbooks from England and France; kitchen clocks from Amsterdam; small kitchen rugs from the Far East; dustpans designed in California; cutting boards designed in England and more. We are always adding more kitchen ideas.

One of the best investments you can make in Decorative Home Decor is kitchen accessories. Our kitchen accessories are not just decorative, they are useful. Let's face it, many of us spend more time in the kitchen room than any room of the house, so why not make it as attractive as we can. When it comes time to get rid of that ordinary cutting board, trivet, kitchen rug, dustpan, kitchen apron, kitchen towel, or kitchen clock, get new ones that are decorative so you can enjoy the whimsy of your kitchen decor even when dinner is over and the dishes are done.

See our kitchen cutting boards on Ask Melissa's website. They were featured on NBC's Ask Melissa show too. She called them one of the hottest "hostess gifts of the season."

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