Comments on: Fake the look

By: Neighbor

Neighbor — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:16:59 +0000

OMG, I saw this apartment trolling Trulia for apartments in my neighborhood! I was appalled that it advertised a newly remodeled kitchen. Talk about a bad investment!

By: JaneC

JaneC — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:01:06 +0000

That kitchen…wow. No. It’s awful.

I do have a black-and-white motif in the living/dining room of my apartment, but it’s all in the decorative elements rather than the basics. I have hardwood floors and birch-colored bookshelves and tables, and the small, retro-ish sofa is covered in a beige, suede-like material. The rugs have a beige and black squares pattern. The chairs are black and white faux-leather and brushed metal, as are all the lamps, vases and photos, and the room is dominated by an enormous (50-inch square) black-and-white abstract painting that I found in a thrift store. I have a couple of pops of red–a picture frame, a vase, a houseplant pot, a throw blanket on the sofa. If I do say so myself, my living room is the comfortable way to do black and white–that kitchen is not.

By: TeleriB

TeleriB — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:24:40 +0000

A $400 black and white rug in the kitchen? The way we cook, it would look like a particularly organic Jackson Pollock before the week was over.

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:57:50 +0000

I think I saw that kitchen in a Tom Petty video, non?

By: Jo

Jo — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:21:58 +0000

Nnnng. NnnnnnnnnNNNNNg.

That kitchen is horrible.

And I think it just made me have a seizure.

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:01:23 +0000

I’m with you there, Judy. I think I prefer the idea of a scaled down black and white look to the INYOURFACEBLACKANDWHITEDIDYOUMISSITITSBLACK!ANDWHITE! look.

By: Judy

Judy — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:15:10 +0000

Ohmigawd, that checkered kitchen would make me too queasy to eat, never mind too distracted to cook!!