Note: Size isn?t an issue No matter how you slice it, the Thanksgiving season means focusing on the kitchen and dining room. Here at Curbed, we started thinking about all of the dreamy food-oriented rooms we?ve featured recently, and decided to serve up some of the best for you. Whether you like to cook or entertain, you?ll find some serious style goals here.
Work hard?and look good doing it

Sarah Dorio

Atlanta, GA
In interior designer Lee Kleinhelter?s Atlanta home, black is more than an accent. The color is used liberally around the room on walls and cabinetry. Kleinhelter keeps the dark hue from being too heavy with texture; walls are covered with black grasscloth and cabinets are shou sugi ban, a Japanese charred wood finish. Bold gold accents also lighten things up, including bands of brass under the countertop and a luminous brass vent hood.
Paul Costello

New Orleans, LA
The range hood is also the star in the kitchen of gallerist and art collector Arthur Roger. He has spent a lifetime renovating a compound in New Orleans?s French Quarter, and that includes this kitchen in a cottage on the his property. Roger?s philosophy is that quiet backgrounds let the art shine. Although this burnished metal hood and backsplash are accents, they don?t compete with the paintings in the room.

Brett Bulthuis

Chicago, IL
We featured a home in Chicago?s Wicker Park that has an elegant kitchen that?s both hardworkin...