.This is simple and very cool -- 4 boards painted with blackboard paint (butcher drawing by an artistic friend), quite a few magnetic knife strips, lots of black handled knives. black and cream curtain and old fashioned looking counters.
If theses walls could talk...wait...they can! When guests visit, I wanted to have a fun way for them to leave a little message behind. So I painted the sheetrock walls with black chalkboard paint.