Kitchen counter decorIf it's this pretty, it stays on the counter

The rule for kitchen counter decor is simple: if it's this pretty, it stays out. Everything else goes in a cupboard. That way the counter stays calm, and the things you use every day become the decoration.

The Smeg toaster in champagne is the obvious one, soft and rounded and nothing like the shiny black boxes most kitchens have. An amber butter dish in pressed glass catches the morning light. Glass oil bottles with steel pourers replace whatever plastic bottle is on the counter now.

Then a stoneware bowl for lemons or garlic, walnut servers leaning in a corner, and an onyx sugar pot in green for the coffee station. Nothing here is hidden, and nothing needs to be.