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Deborah Bishop

Contributing editor Deborah Bishop approached "Kitchen Design 101" with keen interest, as she is currently plotting her own kitchen renovation. "Having read and been told that this is the most important room in the house- and seeing such an  array of aesthetic approaches- I am now effectively paralyzed," confesses Bishop, even though her culinary triumphs tend, at best, toward toast and French-press coffee.

Written by Deborah

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This Endless Playscape Is Complete with a Bamboo Forest and Trampoline

A pleasure garden in northern California is rich in whimsical surprises.
June 11, 2016
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A Couple Cuts Their Commute and Designs All Day

When your house includes an industrial design studio, architecture office, and metalwork shop, what more do you need?
March 30, 2016
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In a San Francisco Workshop, Kids Take on Carpentry with Mini Chisels and Saws

A San Francisco woodworking studio for kids a both carpentry skills and an appreciation for design thinking.
January 16, 2016
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A Prefab Boathouse in Texas

Designed as a prefabricated monolithic steel grid, the boathouse’s orthogonal frame was delivered from Houston by truck and then transported by barge to the site.
November 2, 2013
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Project Runaway

Driven by the death of several appliances, a San Francisco family finds that a spanking new kitchen delivers a good dose of domestic harmony along with the excuse to execute a complete home makeover.
February 5, 2010
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Victorian Revival

A couple’s dinner out at their neighborhood bistro provides just the right impetus for their restaurant-inspired kitchen renovation.
September 14, 2009
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Where the Sidewalk Ends

After taking on San Francisco City Hall, architect Jane Martin helped spawn a movement that has rendered the city’s sidewalks more hospitable to birds, bees, butterflies—and even to Homo…
June 22, 2009
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The New Suburbanism

When an urban expat couple decided to build the suburban house they wanted rather than the one their neighbors expected, they ended up with a spare but airy jewel box and no wooden shingles.
May 4, 2009
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Worth the Wait

Tucked into the side of a scenic San Francisco hill, one of the city’s more diminutive houses battles everything from dry rot to obstructionist neighbors in order to grow up.
April 30, 2009
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Model Worthy

The true test of a kitchen’s mettle is not how it looks brand-new, but how it looks after a decade of wear and tear from heaving cleavers and spilling sauce.
April 16, 2009
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Bulthaup's B2 Kitchen System

With its updated version of the old walk-in hearth, Bulthaup deconstructs the kitchen into a freestanding system fit for a modern ascetic.
April 16, 2009
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Open Kitchen

A San Francisco architect turns his “inefficiency” kitchen into a modestly scaled and well-lit place to cook, eat, work, and enjoy the view—–even with his back turned.
April 16, 2009
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Johnny Grey on Kitchens of the Future

The nephew of food guru Elizabeth David, Grey found validation for his design approach in the field of neuroscience.
April 16, 2009
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Daniel Patterson on Kitchens of the Future

According to this chef who routinely pushes the boundaries of how food is prepared and presented, the ideal kitchen will look back to the future.
April 16, 2009
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Cardenio Petrucci on Kitchens of the Future

Cardenio Petrucci has seen the kitchen assume increasing prominence, to the point where it’s akin to a piece of fine furniture.  
April 16, 2009
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Christine Rosen on Kitchens of the Future

“Looking at the data, we will continue to eat more convenience foods and to gather less as a family, just as our kitchens become ever more ‘gourmet’ and ‘professional.’
April 16, 2009
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Antonio Citterio on Kitchens of the Future

“As the kitchen assumes its place as the most important part of the home, we are thankfully moving away from the idea of designing the kitchen as if it were a clinic or a sterile environment.
April 16, 2009
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Scott Hudson on Kitchens of the Future

About eight years ago, Scott Hudson founded his Seattle-based company Henrybuilt (named for his grandfather) to try to fill the void between sophisticated high-end European kitchen systems and what…
April 16, 2009
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An Introduction to Kitchen Design

The kitchen has evolved from a closed-off satellite to the most open, doted-upon room in the house—and repository of our dreams of domestic fulfillment.
April 16, 2009
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101 Kitchen Design

No matter how cozy your living room or den, the kitchen is usually the heart of a home.
April 16, 2009
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101 Home Office

Work is work, but working from home is better, especially if you have the right setup.
March 1, 2009
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The Ungreening of America

We asked Charles Birnbaum to point us to five unique landscapes that we can still take a peek at. He explains: “I’ve chosen places that are either at risk or lesser known.
February 27, 2009
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The People's Park

An amorphous profession, landscape architecture embraces everything from civic plazas, highways, and landfill reclamations to the front lawn.
February 27, 2009
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Yard Works

“Mother Nature is too powerful to try and mimic,” says Shane Coen, whose firm is known for its minimalist approach to the residential landscape.
February 27, 2009
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101 Landscape Architecture

A brief history of landscape architecture, from Birnbaum to Walter to Coen.
February 27, 2009
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Mission Statement

A house that survived the Great Quake and the intervening decades is reborn after a serious intervention by a modernist architect.
February 26, 2009
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Stoked to Soak

Compelling custom solutions to off-the-shelf problems are often hard to come by. But landscape architects James A.
February 5, 2009
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A Garage Converted Modern Playroom

It could have been a Sheetrock box, but as the house’s most frequently used point of entry, it deserved the same architectural respect.
February 4, 2009
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Density Down Under

Six weeks after moving from a “gorgeous custom house with huge gardens” in a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, into an apartment a few minutes from the city’s central business district, Roz Mawson…
February 2, 2009
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Barely There

If not for the dawn appearance of the bear, which came loping toward Maem Slater-Enns and her then six-month-old daughter as they sat contemplating the water, the Enns family might still be residing…
February 1, 2009
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A Tale of Two Houses

When Ulrich Fleischmann approached architect Maki Kuwayama, of Unit A Architecture in Stuttgart, Germany, to design a home and office space, he was looking for a deal.
February 1, 2009
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A Stable Office Environment

Giorgio Baravalle originally had a true home office—a space inside his house in Millbrook, New York, that was meant to be a private place to work, but instead served as a traffic circle in the…
February 1, 2009
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Space-Efficient Renovation in New York

“A strategy of extreme density was required,” says Michael Chen of Normal Projects, 
who along with partner Kari Anderson handled the renovation of this Upper West Side apartment.
February 1, 2009
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There’s No Place Like Home

Telecommuting may let you answer email in your underwear, but is the home office all it’s cracked up to be?
February 1, 2009
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The Green Lagoon

From the deck of this waterfront house, the scenery is abuzz with Northern California wildlife–but there's not a utility bill in sight.
January 21, 2009
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Pittsburgh Steeler

With a nod to the Burgh’s industrial heritage, and an eye toward the new, Jeff Walz replaced an aging farmhouse with a chic steel cube.
January 15, 2009
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Bay Wash

With a presence in three centuries, Christi Azevedo’s Victorian survived the quake of 1906 and served as a laundry before its rebirth as a well-lit hybrid of old and new.
January 14, 2009
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Structured Play

Two of the country’s most creative and thoughtful playground designers—architect Richard Dattner and landscape architect M.
January 1, 2009
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