Kitchen design has definitely hit new highs. If you’ve been thinking of doing a kitchen remodel this year, check out the neatest new options in this recap of 2006 design trends. From appliance drawers to eco-friendly design, this is not your mother’s kitchen. And sadly, it’s not mine either. Oh well. There’s always 2007…
Top 10 Kitchen Design Trends for 2006
Mini Appliance Drawers
Next-Gen Kitchen Islands
Kitchen Lifestyle Upgrades (Wine Fridges Everywhere!)
Outdoor Cooking & Entertaining
Old World Kitchen Design
Urban Designs
Daring Colors
Gourmet Appliances
Eco-Friendly Designs
Butler’s Pantries
Vintage Style
What’s your favorite look in kitchen design, new or old?
More ideas:
Start Designing Your Dream Kitchen Now (HGTVKitchen Design)
Tour the 2007 HGTV Dream Home Kitchen (below) (HGTV)
Feb 1979, My husband and I honeymooned in Colorado (skiing), We always said we would bring our children there someday! Maybe even relocate. Years later it would be wonderful (a dream of ours) to live there. I love the colors, the architect, the Views of the mountains. WE love to ski, and can see ourselves with lots of friends and family that would enjoy it with us. Thanks for airing this – even if it just gave me a month of wonderful dreams.
Overall the house is very nice. Who wouldn’t want to own it? However, I agree with many of the previous respondents regarding the use of blue. Blue is not appropriate for a home in the Colorado mountains. The home has a ‘country feel’ not a mountain feel – big difference. Next time HGTV builds a house in the West, they should pick a designer who understands that difference. More appropriate interior design would have made the house spectacular.
Love the house in the Mountains! I find my spirit in the Mountains. My daughter lives in Littleton, CO finishing College, we are already making plans to share the house!
I love it! Can I have it? Thanks. =)
Looking at the pictures of this house, I could just imagine having my whole family together for the Holidays! It would be great to sit around one of the many fireplaces with a cup of hot chocolate and warm fuzzy slippers watching the wildlife out the amazing windows. What a lucky person to win this dream house of many!
Love the home, but we like many of your viewers could not afford to keep it! Why not design something in a beautiful location, but a little more practical for the average family.
Having lived in Colorado for 20 years, the outside amazingly reflected the environment. Questioned all the blue inside though. Would love to move back someday.
Hubby and I are retired, living a fixer-upper. Too late for us to start over. I want the dream home for my son and his family. He is an under-paid math prof. They are in a fixer-upper and could use a new start. It really is a dream home
The Dream Home is truly a Dream Home as far as my husband and I are concerned. We watched the tour of the home on HGTV together. We were WOWED! I lived in Colorado for 6 years before we were married. We used to travel to Colorado every year to ski but as the family grew and got older and the grandchildren came along it has gotten harder and harder to pick a time that there is good snow for skiing and we can all get away at that specific time. We are looking so forward to winning that Dream Home! We are just 5 years away from retirement, we have 6 grown children and so far 9 grandchildren with more to come. What a lovely place for the family to come for Holidays and vacation. We are an outdoor family with horses for trailriding and love skiing. We loved everything about the “country log home”. What a great job! Jeanne
I think this years dream home is remarkable!!Very pleased with the amount of people it could host as well as the open layout.Very beautiful, can’t wait to win the HGTV Dream Home of 2007 for my family!!!!
THE HGTV DREAM HOME IS AWESOME!! FROM THE LOCATION, DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND DECORATING!
I THOUGHT 2006′S WAS WONDERFUL BUT THIS OUTSTANDING. OUR FAMILY HAS MANY GREAT MEMORIES OF VACATIONS AND HARVESTING WHEAT IN THE BEAUTIFUL STATE OF COLORADO. I WISH EVERYONE WHO
ENTERS COULD WIN IT FOR THEIR FAMILY BUT I HOPE
OUR FAMILY IS SO BLESSED!
Evey year my husband and I look forward to the Dream Home that HGTV comes up with. It is very gracious of everyone involved. Who wouldn’t want to live in one of the most beautiful states and be able to retire there. We have often talked about retirement and this would be the perfect oportunity for it. Thank you for your graciousness and time and talent.
You could not have picked a more incredible location for this years dream home. I think you all have packed a lot of great extra’s in evry room. The bunk room was also a great idea. Thank you for giving us great design ideas year after year.
I LOVE THIS HOME I CAN SEE MYSELF THERE BUT I HAVE NEVER WON ANY THING IN MY LIFE BUT THE PICTURE OF THIS HOME TOLD ME TO ENTER.
As a kitchen designer, I have to comment! It’s really blue! What I do like a lot are the lamps in the kitchen on the countertop. Practical- who knows, but warm and charming, yes! It’s also quite eclectic, with the rustic stools and the contemporary refrigerator hardware, simple cabinet lines and te floor with great character to it. Eclectic design is very interesting to be surrounded by.
Love the house! The designers took a leap with the blue and I think it looks great. Not many people would be brave enough to try this on their own. But watch… blue will be the next black for 2007
The house is beautifully decorated and stunning all on its own! Considering where and the way my husband and I have been living for the last two and half years the dog house appears more than inviting and probably a notch above our current digs!
I Love Blue!
I Love Colorado!
Can not wait to win!
Congrats Dream Home Team on another beautiful Home!
This year’s dream home would be a dream come true.
I love the location, the blue in the kitchen, and all the rest of the beautiful house. The windows are beautiful. It would be magic and a retirement for me after years of nursing. You all did a great job.
Brenda
Forty years ago Ken and I went to Winter Park on our honeymoon. Last year I took my 7 year old grandson skiing there. This home is just beautiful, and we would love living there.
Barbara Snook
Dodge City, KS
Love the Dream House. Just what we need. It would be a great retirement home for me and my husband. The whole family would enjoy. Hope I win!!!
this year’s dream home would be a dream come true.however the kitchen counter is to blue it should have warmer colours.
Love the house an the location. It would truly be a dream home for our family. june
I LIKE THE STYLE OF THE HOUSE, BUT IT SEEMS TOO DARK FOR A SKI & WOODS SETTING. I DON’T LIKE THE BLUE COUNTERTOPS IN THE KITCHEN-SHOULD BE A WARMER FEEL.
The lamps are hideous, and I don’t care for the plaid even if this IS a country style home. I like the blue, but there are so many better options for lighting that could have been used than those lamps. Even if lamps were acceptable for kitchen lighting, which in my opinion they are not, those are way too tall. Yuck.
Too much blue!
Looks good but brown and blue are not blending .