Skip to content

Top Navigation

Cooking Light Cooking Light
  • Recipes
  • Cooking 101
  • Eating Smart
  • Healthy Living
  • News

Profile Menu

Your Account

Account

  • Email Preferences

Manage Your Subscription

  • All Access Subscribers
  • Magazine Subscribers
  • Cooking Light Diet Subscribers
Login
Logout
SUBSCRIBE
Pin FB

Explore Cooking Light

Cooking Light Cooking Light
  • Explore

    Explore

    • 31-Day Healthy Meal Plan

      Our 31-day calendar of meals and tips shows you how to cook more and love it with fun, family-friendly meals that come together quickly and deliciously. Read More
    • Dinner Tonight: Quick and Healthy Menus in 45 Minutes (or Less)

      Hundreds of delicious recipes, paired with simple sides, that can be on your table in 45 minutes or less. Read More
    • Our Favorite Healthy Air Fryer Recipes

      Who ever said that chicken wings, doughnuts, and pizza couldn't be healthy? Read More
  • Recipes

    Recipes

    See All Recipes
    • Breakfast & Brunch
    • Lunch
    • Dinner
    • Drinks
    • Recipe Makeovers
    • Quick & Healthy
    • Diabetic
    • Gluten-Free
    • Vegetarian
    • Cooking Light Live
  • Cooking 101

    Cooking 101

    See All Cooking 101
    • Essential Ingredients
    • Cooking Techniques
    • Meet the Chef
    • Cooking Resources
    • Budget Friendly
    • Smart Choices
  • Eating Smart
  • Healthy Living

    Healthy Living

    See All Healthy Living
    • Weight-Loss
    • Health
    • Fitness
    • Home
    • Travel
    • Nutrition 101
  • News

Profile Menu

Your Account

Account

  • Email Preferences

Manage Your Subscription

  • All Access Subscribers
  • Magazine Subscribers
  • Cooking Light Diet Subscribers
Login
Logout
Sweepstakes

Follow Us

  1. Home
  2. Health News
  3. Step Inside a Seattle Blogger's Kitchen

Step Inside a Seattle Blogger's Kitchen

By MIMI October 22, 2015
Skip gallery slides
Pin
Credit: Photo: Jose Mandojana
Seeking light, bright space, a Seattle blogger breathes new life into her old home's kitchen.
Start Slideshow

1 of 9

Pin
Facebook Tweet Email Send Text Message

West Coast Revival

Credit: Photo: Jose Mandojana

Sarah Adler wants the whole world to eat healthy. A nutrition coach with a blog called Simply Real Health, she's developed tons of recipes that don't require scads of ingredients or hours to orchestrate. Adler published her first cookbook, The Simply Real Health Cookbook, last spring. In it, she shares her recipes to support and encourage a health-forward approach to balanced, whole eating.

The cookbook's lush photographs were shot in the kitchen of her 1920s Arts and Crafts cottage, tucked into a historic Seattle neighborhood. The kitchen's overall design is inspired by Adler's favorite Seattle restaurants, as well as her travels. "It had to be easy to navigate and not overly stocked with things. It's essentially my office, so I needed it bright, clean, and open," she says. "It's a great, happy space."

1 of 9

Advertisement
Advertisement

2 of 9

Pin
Facebook Tweet Email Send Text Message

Go With Your Gut

Credit: Photo: Jose Mandojana

Adler's contractors tried to push her away from marble countertops because of their tendency to stain, but she stuck to her guns."I actually like the look of it being a little worn," she says. "I don't want a pristine kitchen that makes everyone feel uncomfortable."

2 of 9

3 of 9

Pin
Facebook Tweet Email Send Text Message

Keep It Real

Credit: Photo: Jose Mandojana

She retained an original brick chimney and kept it unpainted. "Contractors were fighting me to drywall over it or at least paint it. They said it could crumble," she says. "I fought hard. I really like rustic elements to balance out all the white."

3 of 9

Advertisement

4 of 9

Pin
Facebook Tweet Email Send Text Message

Don't Stop Searching

Credit: Photo: Jose Mandojana

Her beautiful wood dining table was a lucky Craigslist find. "I bought it from a couple that was moving from a big house into a smaller one," she says. "They wanted to get rid of this amazing table, and I had been looking for so long. It has two huge side leaves and can expand to seat 10 people."

4 of 9

5 of 9

Pin
Facebook Tweet Email Send Text Message

Pick What You Like

Credit: Photo: Jose Mandojana

Her light gray dinner plates are from West Elm. "I like them because they're different than white, and I have smaller white plates, which look pretty with the gray," says Adler. Her mismatched, all-blue bowl collection was scavenged from Etsy and Seattle's secondhand stores, and her cocktail and barware are also vintage and varied. "I hunt these pieces down," she says. "I'm keeping it casual."

5 of 9

6 of 9

Pin
Facebook Tweet Email Send Text Message

Shake It Up

Credit: Photo: Jose Mandojana

Cocktails are high on Adler's list of favorite things. She makes her own simple syrups and infusions using herbs and citrus. For parties, she and her fiancé, Kyle, pictured at left, set up a bar on the kitchen counter and display index cards with cocktail recipe ideas to inspire guests as they concoct their own drinks.

6 of 9

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

7 of 9

Pin
Facebook Tweet Email Send Text Message

Find Your Sunny Spot

Credit: Photo: Jose Mandojana

"Ambience is a huge thing," says Adler, who snapped up Ikea's Saarinen-inspired dining table for her L-shaped breakfast nook with built-in benches. A perfect white circle, the table adds a smart midcentury modern note to her vintage-infused decor.

7 of 9

8 of 9

Pin
Facebook Tweet Email Send Text Message

Old Meets New

Credit: Photo: Jose Mandojana

Adler brightens up her mostly white space with a mixture of colorful vintage and new cookbooks and keepsakes.

8 of 9

9 of 9

Pin
Facebook Tweet Email Send Text Message

Bright Ideas

Credit: Photo: Jose Mandojana

Adler sourced vintage-style light fixtures online, buying her stainless steel and Edison bulb chandeliers from Overstock.com.

9 of 9

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Replay gallery

Share the Gallery

Pinterest Facebook

Up Next

By MIMI

    Share the Gallery

    Pinterest Facebook
    Advertisement
    Skip slide summaries

    Everything in This Slideshow

    Advertisement

    View All

    1 of 9 West Coast Revival
    2 of 9 Go With Your Gut
    3 of 9 Keep It Real
    4 of 9 Don't Stop Searching
    5 of 9 Pick What You Like
    6 of 9 Shake It Up
    7 of 9 Find Your Sunny Spot
    8 of 9 Old Meets New
    9 of 9 Bright Ideas

    Share & More

    Facebook Tweet Email Send Text Message
    Cooking Light

    Magazines & More

    Learn More

    • Customer Service this link opens in a new tab
    • Advertise
    • Content Licensing
    • Accolades this link opens in a new tab

    Connect

    MeredithCooking Light is part of the Allrecipes Food Group. © Copyright 2023 Meredith Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Cooking Light may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice. Privacy Policythis link opens in a new tab Terms of Servicethis link opens in a new tab Ad Choicesthis link opens in a new tab California Do Not Sellthis link opens a modal window Web Accessibilitythis link opens in a new tab
    © Copyright Cooking Light. All rights reserved. Printed from https://www.cookinglight.com

    View image

    Step Inside a Seattle Blogger's Kitchen
    this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.