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I am so excited to share my special creative space with you finally! I'll be doing a series of posts on everything from the decor, to the kitchen tools I use most, and also a peek inside my fridge and pantry! You can see the kitchen tools post by clicking here, and the fridge and pantry post by clicking here!
This is where the magic happens, so they say. 😉 I pretty much live, work, and breathe in my kitchen. To date, I've created roughly 500 unique grain-free recipes for you all (about 150 in each book that I've written, and about 200 for my blog!). I'm now in the midst of writing a third book, so I've been spending more time than ever in here!
I am so happy with the way it all came together, and am even happier to finally be using REAL ovens after almost a year of cooking with a countertop toaster oven! The oven in our house is from the 70's (I think) and is gas and has never worked.
We're still working on getting fully moved in and moving things around to be convenient as I start working in here, but so far I feel so productive and cannot wait to share the new recipes I've been creating with you! A special thanks to Williams Sonoma, Le Creuset, West Elm, Anthropologie, and Shun for helping to furnish the space!
The Details
Countertops: I chose Caesarstone Frosty Carrina for a neutral and bright countertop that was durable enough for me to be cooking, spilling, and cutting on all day long. I absolutely adore Carrara marble but with as much as I am in here, I didn't want to worry about stains and spills. Plus it saved a lot of money!
Backsplash: Matte white subway tile
Drawer pulls and knobs: Restoration Hardware.
Sink and Faucet: I found my faucet on Amazon for almost half off and I love it! The sink is an a farmhouse sink from Kohler. I'm trying to track down which one for you!
We had these shelves specially crafted out of reclaimed wood and I just love the way they turned out! I've been collecting dinnerware and fun props over the years since I photographed both of my cookbooks and all of the photos for my blog, so it's so fun to finally see some of favorites displayed instead of lost amongst the stacks and stacks of dishes! This is silly, but not surprising to anyone who knows me, but the thing I'm looking forward to most is decorating them for Christmastime!
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I keep out some of most used grain-free baking items like coconut flour, almonds, cashews, and coconut sugar so I can get to them easily. More to come on my ingredients in the next post in this series!
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My heart and sole in the form of words! Most of the recipes in these books cannot be found anywhere online, so I find myself actually cooking from them numerous times a week. Contrary to popular belief, I do not have all 500 of my recipes memorized! 😉
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This is my meeting space and also a place where people can come and sit around the counter while I serve them up taste-testers!
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I love the cozy feeling of a nook. I knew I'd need extra storage for all of my gadgets so we built the nook on top of low cabinets for extra space. I can often be found in the corner typing up recipes or answering your comments on Facebook!
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Here's my prop shelf! I've collected all of these over the years from various places like Home Goods, Target, Anthropologie, and our antique fairs. All of the white dinnerware was what I used to shoot the entire Meals Made Simple Cookbook!
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karli_tonesup
Love this!! Looking forward to the rest of the series and of course your third book. Keep up the good work!!
staceyann7
Where did you get the table in your nook? I am on the hunt for something exactly that size and with a stone top!!
Danielle
I got it from Anthropologie. Unfortunately, they don’t have it in stock anymore but you could check Cost Plus!
Rachel Tatner
I’ve always loved white subway tiles in a kitchen and those wood shelves are a great accent against all the white. Love it! The salt blasted bottles are absolutely beautiful along with the ruffled bowl. So good to hear you’ve got an oven. I’m amazed at what all you’ve been able to accomplish with a toaster oven!!
Looking forward to your 3rd cookbook. Although I keep getting food options cut away and it’s getting more and more difficult to make anything. I’m currently almond flour, coconut flour and cassava flour free, nightshade free, low-histamine, ….. I mean, what’s left?! lol So far, at least, I still have cocoa….gotta have at least one comfort food, right?
Danielle
Thank you Rachel! Happy cooking to you!
Andrea Renaud-Blonde
Beautiful! Is this the actual kitchen in your home, or is it somewhere else – kind of like an “office”, a space where you go to work on your recipes, like a test kitchen? I am never sure if bloggers and cookbook authors do all the cooking out of their home or in a totally different place set up exclusively for recipe development.
Maddy L
What a fun space you have! I’m definitely a little jealous. I can’t wait to see what you come up with next.
Danielle
Thank you Maddy! I’m definitely getting good use out of it with all this testing for book 3!
Danielle
I wrote my first 2 books and all of the recipes for my blog in my little home kitchen (and photographed in my living room!). This is a new office space that we built a kitchen in. I’m so excited to have a space dedicated to creating recipes and filming videos now!
Kerri B.
Hi Danielle! Can you tell me where you got the floating shelves? We are looking for something similar for our living room and can’t find any we like, and these look great! Bonus if it’s a bay area company! Thanks!
Danielle
We got them made by a local woodworker. You could just show a woodworker a picture of these (they’re made of reclaimed wood) and hopefully they can whip some up for ya!
Danielle
Thank you Rhonda! We just found a local woodworker and had them made up 🙂
SeattleMom
Love your kitchen just as much as I love your books, thank you for posting the details! Would you mind sharing the dimensions of your island – love the work space, placement of pans and number of seats around it!
Jessica Watt
Hi Danielle, Your kitchen is beautiful! I have your two books up on my shelves and use them daily now. I am seeing a specialist this week about my health issues, they think it’s crohn’s or colitis. After reading your book I felt relieved and had hope for the first time that I was finally going to start feeling better. I am completely going Paleo now and am starting to feel better.After many years of nausea, pain, discomfort, bowel problems and extreme anemia and fatigue I never realized just how much food was killing me. I went gluten free and that just wasn’t wnough for me. I have had flare ups since my early teens. I am now 28 years old and still have had no answers from any doctors yet. I am now filled with gratitude for your book might just be the best thing that I ever came across at costco! Thank you Danielle for delicious recipes that really can heal our bodies! It’s only been 3 weeks but I know it will become my new lifestyle. I cannot wait for the 3rd one to come out. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Lu
Wicked kitchen Danielle, my wife will love looking at these photos.
Danielle
Thank you!
Elizabeth Proffetty
Pottery Geek comment here: I love your pottery from Anthropologie but as a professional potter I cringe at the fact they sell pots with that glaze on them. The crackle glaze, while beautiful is not dinnerware safe. It is fine on the outside of pots like a pitcher, but those small crackles are places where bacteria can hide. Glaze Chem 101 would say NEVER eat from dishes that are crazed–the word for what is really happening in that glaze. I know you use them as props and the light refractory is great for photographs, still it is not healthy or safe. I just thought I would let you know.