Eclectic Kitchen Eclectic Kitchen, San Francisco

Double-hung windows, placed over an undermount stainless steel sink, allow for viewing a beautifully landscaped San Francisco backyard.

Lavender cabinetry is both homey and modern.Talk to a local kitchen designer about adding a touch of lavender to yours

The smell of lavender is supposed to be stress relieving when used in aromatherapy. The lavender plant has both purple and green, so it's little wonder the colors work so well together.I love the simplicity of this design and how it works with elements in the garden to bring in a natural feeling of space.

I’m not brave enough to paint my kitchen cabinets purple, but by golly, it works — mostly because the walls and uppers are white. A strong color can look great if you give the eye somewhere to rest.

Alexander Calder and the Birth of Modern MobilesThe next breakthrough, and by far the biggest one, came in the early 1930s, when American sculptor and trained mechanical engineer Alexander Calder started to apply the whippletree mechanism in a new way: Instead of attaching lower elements to both ends of the wires, he replaced one on each arm with an abstract shape. This opened up a new universe of possibilities, and Calder explored it without hesitation, making thousands of awe-inspiring mobiles over the next four and a half decades ranging from miniature size to 100 feet. Albert Einstein, upon seeing the 1943 Calder exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, lamented: “I wish I had thought of that.” In a way Calder (or just “Sandy,” as many who are familiar with him and his work call him) invented a new art form, which can be said of very few artists. He broke through the limitations of what sculptures can be. The term “mobile,” a French pun meaning both “mobile” and “motive,” was coined by Marcel Duchamp while visiting Calder’s studio in 1931 — although he apparently had already used the term in 1913 for his “Bicycle Wheel,” which some consider to be the first kinetic sculpture.Shown: An Alexander Calder-inspired mobile in a San Francisco kitchen

3 double hung windows, the middle being larger in size

Need some lime green accents..or golden yellow magenta, or scarlet...with warm grays, like stainless.

Yes...purple and green maybe, but not purple and yellow