Cooking Up Creativity – 7 Unique Kitchen Design Additions That You Should Consider
If you’re looking to renovate your home, you probably want to get professionals like those at watara.com.au on the job. However, it’s always good to plan ahead, so here are some tips on renovating one of the most important areas of your home – the kitchen.
Getting creative in your kitchen isn’t necessarily always related to what’s cooking. If your kitchen is looking tired, dated, or in need of some stealthy design updates, the following ideas have you covered.
Wooden It Be Nice
Wood has been the material of choice for many colonial or country style kitchens for decades. It’s a natural choice for cabinetry, benchtops, and furniture items. Wood features in 2017/2018 have moved on from their barnstorming image in the 90’s and wooden features are one of the fastest-growing kitchen trends around.
An emerging trend for kitchen renovations in Melbourne is highly polished parquetry floors, splashbacks, and sleek wooden countertops and cabinetry frames. Styles of wood and plantation timber are now more versatile than ever – and combine easily with other natural materials such as marble, concrete and granite.
Living Features
The walls are alive in 2017, and if you want to combine the unending interior design obsession with indoor plants with 2017’s hottest colour (Pantone:‘Greenery’), a living wall is a great way to do it.
A living wall may be as simple as a hanging plant with herbs in it, or it might be an entire shelf with edible plants. Use your imagination to create an area as wild as your tastes allow.
Book It In
Another way to smarten up your kitchen is with a book wall. If you’re blessed with an open plan kitchen and living area, you can divide the space up with a shelf of cookery books.
Not only do they provide inspiration, they’re often smartly illustrated, and they signal to guests and family members that you’re serious about your cooking prowess.
Light Up
Clever placement of lighting can also brighten and transform your kitchen. Pendant lights offer a unique way to divide dining and cooking areas, with pendant lights being a good choice for dining table dinners.
Lights can also be installed within cupboards and shelf spaces, creating smaller vignetted spaces that you can use to create a sense of drama. Small LED and strip lights are great ways to trial more permanent bespoke lighting solutions.
Petite Eats
Small spaces are the new normal, and with apartment sizes getting smaller and smaller, you may find that you’re trying to find ways to do more with less space.
An emerging trend from studio homes around the world, and from the ‘small homes’ movement is the creation of modular cupboard kitchens. This style of kitchen is contained within a cupboard, and often features a sink, a mini hotplate or hob, a bench space and a small refrigerator.
Choosing to use this style of kitchen in a small space allows you to maintain the feel of a larger space without the need to create a distinct area for a kitchen – a factor which often cramps smaller homes or unorthodox living spaces.
What’s Old Is New
Breakfast nooks. Art deco tiling. A stand up bar worthy of the best in 1970’s home design. Whatever your favourite style hat-tip to the past, there’s a way to interpret and make it work for your kitchen at home.
The trick to incorporating retro-cool features in your kitchen is to not be too literal and to not go overboard. Choosing to redecorate your entire kitchen in a period style can be risky, and can date your home very quickly. It’s also a very hard thing to do well and can look overdone or too stylised.
A better idea is to choose a feature you particularly like and find a way to work it into your overall style.
Inside Out
The addition of an outdoor kitchen or cooking space is a wonderful way to revitalise your outdoor area and will afford you ventilated versatility in the warmer months. Barbeque grills, wood-fired ovens and gas stoves are all great choices for an outdoor kitchen, and can be enjoyed on decks, balconies or even poolside. Limiting your kitchen options to the indoor space in your home is foolish when there’s a whole world outside filled with exciting options.
Taking steps to make your kitchen reflect your lifestyle, your personality and your usage will help to ensure you get the best and most creative uses out of it in the coming years.
Article from E Hudes
