Saturday, January 16, 2021

The Chinoiserie Kitchen?

Southern Living

 I love blue and white Chinese porcelain in the kitchen and this is a beautiful kitchen with great examples. I do wonder about the large lamp in the corner. I wonder if this is just for staging? I have seen other examples of lamps in kitchens, but I find this a bit odd visually and wonder if the white shade would not get greasy and soiled, especially so close to the range and hood.

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  1. Agree on lamp in the corner. What I’ve seen that looks great is a pair on a long island directly wired into it so no cords. Useful and pretty.

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  2. That was my first thought when I saw the lamp so close to the stove, too. In my house the shade would be covered with spaghetti sauce within a week, haha! I do love the symmetry of the topiaries beside the stove, and the substantial vase on the kitchen island.

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  3. I love the stools. The lamp has to be staging. But isn't it a happy kitchen? Also like the pop of red in the traditional runner.

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  4. I'm sure the lamp is just for staging. Our houses have been photographed several times for magazines and things are arranged for photos--not for living. It's the lamp that draws your eye in this photo and that is why it was placed there. It is possible that not even the rug lives in this kitchen all the time. When one of our kitchens was photographed, one of our valuable antique hooked rugs was placed in the kitchen for the photo No way would we subject that rug to kitchen traffic!

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    1. I'd be disappointed to learn the rug was a staged object. IMO it makes the room.

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  5. Love this kitchen and I love the ambiance lamps bring to a kitchen. I used to have one on my counter across the kitchen from the stove which I loved to turn on at night. Mom used to have a small lamp on the kitchen table which provided soft, romantic light during meals. Not silly or staging in our kitchens.

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  6. My first thought was, what an odd place for a lamp.

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  7. These folks do all their cooking at Bob Evans.

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  8. I think a table lamp in the kitchen is one of the dumbest ideas I've seen in magazines and blogs. I think some random designer hit on the idea when kitchen designers started doing away with upper cabinets. Without upper cabinets you can't do the little under the cabinet lights and you can have dark corners. So they solved the problem by sticking a table lamp there. Crazy. Stupid. Design.

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  9. Always have lamps in my kitchen just much smaller!

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  10. It does seem an odd place for a lamp, especially near the windows where there is lots of light. I have seen lamps in kitchens before, but this one takes up so much counter space. I love the potted topiaries. I wonder if they are there as staging props too, or if they are herb topiaries.

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  11. I find it funny, all the talk about the lamp, which by the way is totally out of place, however no one finds two potted plants right next to the stove a bit odd, esp. if they are live plants to drop leaves on stove or worse in food. It’s gotta be the staging which still makes it odd!

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    1. Right on Linda, I thought that as well but where do you begin to nit-pick in a setting that's pretty nice nice to begin with"

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  12. I have loads of blue and white porcelain in my kitchen, including several small lamps. I absolutely detest overhead lighting and they bring a nice, soft glow. I have an excellent housekeeper who keeps things spotless and grease free. Love the kitchen pictured!

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  13. This is a beautiful kitchen, no doubt about it! I believe the entire kitchen is staged for the photo. I do like a lamp in the kitchen, if there is an appropriate place for one. I have one away from the stove, in an otherwise dark corner. It was made from an old silver teapot and I think it adds some fun to my kitchen.

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  14. I think the whole photo is staged in a vacant/spec house. Not one item or book on the island shelves that typically would house cookbooks or decorative pieces...

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  15. I use blue and white in my kitchen. I also have a couple of lamps in my kitchen - so nice at night after the kitchen is cleaned up and you don't need bright overheads to grab a drink or when the overheads are on the dimmer and I'm entertaining. I don't have a problem with this at all. I use very inexpensive lampshades on my kitchen lamps so that when they are on their last legs I can replace them without feeling bad about it. I think this lamp is staged here and I actually think that the lampshade may have been put on there for the staging to make it fit in that spot because that is what bothers me most in this picture not the placement near the window (remember you turn on a lamp when it's dark out and the light isn't coming in the window) - the shade is all wrong for the lamp!

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    1. You are so right about the shade being wrong for the lamp! All of us were so busy saying that the lamp was staged that we ignored the shade.

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