Imagination in A Log Home Kitchen

I’ve been battling the kitchen design ideas for the last month, for our log home.

I like the idea of a backspash - I’m thinking copper colored tin, perhaps a little burnished to look vintage or antique. However, I just ran across this photo, below.

Attribution: Country Home, Februray 2003. Article: Cabin Bliss, written by Helen Thompson, photographed by Brad Simmons

This is definitely not for sloppy cooks, but if you’ve sealed and stained well and you take care to keep your kitchen clean, this is a beautiful look. Note the lack of upper cupboards in the log home kitchen. This is an important consideration if your kitchen is open concept and/or has cathedral ceilings.

Another Kitchen Look for High Ceilings

Although this isn’t to my taste, I do see some clever ideas and products at play in this photo scanned in from “Country Decorating Ideas”, Fall 2005 Edition. “Into the Woods”, written by Gladys Montgomery and photo by Bill Mathews.

White cupboards in a log home kitchen are not easily ‘pulled off’ but this works well with the yellow walls behind. However, the workspace between the upper cupboards and the counter top, is very limiting. And there is that annoying, stark line of where the cupboard stop and the long wall expanse continues. Just doesn’t flow.

Notes of imagination and interest. I love the wood post protruding from the wall. This is a great idea (if it wasn’t over the lunch counter) for a pot rack, or (over the counter) for lighting. Some lighting - dropping down from 20+ foot high ceilings - looks very wrong, this may be a viable and interesting alternative to bring the log look into your kitchen - even if you don’t own a log home.

Be sure to note the lunch counter bar stools! Perfect for a log home on the lake or a cabin by a stream.

Be sure to leave a note or comment on what you like or don’t like in either of these styles of decorating a log home or cabin.