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6 Marvellous Kitchen Designs that Will Surely Amaze You

Kitchen Design

By Emily WilsonPublished 5 years ago 5 min read
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If you have a family that enjoys starting a day with breakfast during which you discuss your plans for a day, or finishing a day with dinner where everyone is telling each other how they have spent their day; if you like to entertain your friends and family, then your kitchen is one of the most important places in your home. You spend a lot of time in it but you change the look of it pretty rarely. We want our kitchens to be places where we feel comfortable and enjoy spending time in, and sometimes it is just not possible when you look at the same old kitchen walls, cupboards, floors, furniture, and appliances day after day. Maybe it is time for some changes and renovations when your kitchen is in question.

1. Colours

Colours can give your kitchen just the look you want. Whether you decide on a classic colour combination (such as black and white) or go for some bolder combinations, colours will give your kitchen a new life that you desire. You can go for black and white details, like put a white dining table surrounded with black kitchen chairs, or put some black countertop on white cupboards. You can also go for white walls and furniture and then go for black appliances. You don't have to paint everything black to achieve that classic look. Same goes for bolder colours. You can paint your walls in some light, bright colour that will make your kitchen appear like it is filled with light, and then go for some calm, classic colour, like all colours of the wood for cupboards and appliances. Or you can go with bold, bright colours on furniture while choosing a colour with a calming effect for walls, cupboards, and countertops and appliances.

2. Kitchen Furniture

Although kitchen furniture is not so glamorous and it may seem that you don’t have much to choose from, it is not so. The kitchen table can make wonderful decoration alongside its usability. When you add kitchen chairs as well, you will get a family core inside your kitchen. You may have a dining table in your dining room when you entertain guests, but a kitchen table is a place where your family meets for meals. You can choose from a wide variety of kitchen tables and blend the style of it with the style of kitchen. Whether it is a classic wooden table, or modern plexiglass or glass table, it will be a decoration as well as a place for family meetings in the morning and in the evening. You will choose chairs accordingly to the table. Also, you can choose chairs that you can put next to the kitchen isle and use the aisle as a table. There are a lot of opportunities to make kitchen furniture true decoration in your kitchen.

3. Cupboards

Cupboards are not only storage units. They are also in plain sight and everyone that enters your kitchen sees them first. Cupboards have to be large enough to have a storage unit function and have to be neatly put up so they blend perfectly with each other. Here is where you have to choose carefully. Right cupboards can make your kitchen an exquisite place where everyone will love spending time in, or make it a place everyone finds excuses not to be in if they are wrong. First of all, you choose what you like. If your kitchen has a theme, cupboards are the main expressions of that theme. You can go for classic and choose some calm and natural colour (like all colours of the wood), or you can be bold and choose some bright colour that will give your kitchen an interesting look. Whatever you choose, it is very good to know that cupboards can be repainted if you don't like the effect the colour you have chosen produces.

4. Appliances

Appliances can change the look of your kitchen in many ways. You can make your kitchen look rustic or totally modern just by choosing the right appliances. With appliances, you have to count on the usefulness of them, not only on how they look. After all, you will be using them every day and you will not only look at them. That is why you have to choose carefully here. Advice with professionals and consider all the ideas they have. And be sure what you are getting is what you really need. Don’t let something enters your home just because it looks good and you don’t have any use of it.

5. Greenery

If you made your home look like an oasis of good vibrations and coziness, you will want your kitchen to be a part of that. If you have an opportunity to open a garden door from your kitchen, that's amazing. But not all have that possibility. Instead, you can make a garden window, where you can put potted plants, spices you will need for cooking, plants that will bring loads of oxygen in your kitchen and will give your kitchen a warm, cozy look so that everyone feels welcome.

6. Floor

The floor is a floor, right? Not really, especially when it comes to kitchens. There are so many different flooring ideas and all of them can suit your needs. Hard, wooden floor, ceramic tiles, laminate, linoleum, cork tiles... there are so many opportunities for you to choose what you want and what you like the best. Flooring can give that final touch to your kitchen and make it whole. Make sure it is safe and not slippery when wet. Here is where those kitchen mats can do wonders for you. It is amazing what quality and well-chosen kitchen mats can do for your kitchen. They are not only useful in many ways; they can be an important part of your decoration, one that will give your kitchen one special touch you have been looking for. You can place them on the floor and be safe and achieve the good look of your floor at the same time.

These are only a few ideas that can help you find your way through redecorating your kitchen. The best thing about that is that it is you who chooses what will be done and how, because you are the one that will be using your kitchen every day. Be creative and be bold to go after what you want and have fun during the process

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Emily Wilson

I am a business psychologist with a passion for travelling and marketing. Researching, exploring and writing are my favourite things to do. Besides that, I love animals and music.

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