Tag: Darryl Carter

Darryl Carter is an Interior Designer who knows how to juxtapose classic furniture with modern details like a professional. His interiors are always restrained but beautiful, spare but welcoming. He keeps his color palette in the neutrals while incorporating modern art and details that make his interiors exciting and up to date.
Darryl Carter, Christmas

For the Christmas decor in his townhouse in Washington, DC Carter enlisted the Gardener Sidra Forman.  Forman kept things understatedly elegant by decorating the doorways and stair rails with simple green garland.  Sidra skipped the Christmas light and instead embellished the three and the many wreaths throughout the house with yellow burlap ribbons.  Love the modern way the ribbons were wrapped around the garlands.

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It should not take you by surprise the fact that Americans love to collect, thus their love for big kitchens with lots of cabinets.  European kitchens, on the other hand, tend to be smaller for the reason that Europeans tend to buy only and mostly for current consumption, instead of purchasing and freezing food for weeks.  Americans love functionality and comfort, Europeans love the simplicity and no hustle.  Kitchens in America usually have big room pantries where they stack up on all kinds of food.  On the aesthetic side, Europeans gravitate towards no upper cabinets perhaps as a reflection of their more simple lifestyle.

American Kitchen vs European Kitchen

European Kitchens