Redecorating or redesigning any room in your home is an exciting task with endless design possibilities. Your kitchen is the room where you can be creative with your food and hosting skills; why not design the kitchen to show off your personal style as well as your creative culinary skills. If you feel like your kitchen is dated, or needs a new layout, then looking into redecorating or designing is the place to begin.
Whether you prefer to bulk cook family dinners, or bake cakes, these 7 ways to update your kitchen will have some good ideas to get you started.
1) Paint your Cabinet Doors
Bring some life back into the kitchen by sprucing up your kitchen cabinets. A sand down and a lick of paint with do the job if you want a quick and simple fix. However, you can be more creative with your cabinet doors if you choose to. A good example of adding more creativity to the kitchen is the two-toned cabinet idea. Although this idea has a lot of popularity, you can be innovative with it. Whether you choose to have two different tones for your bottom and top cabinets, or whether one cabinet has a two-tone element, you can mix it all up!
If you would prefer to add extra to your kitchen elsewhere, stick to neutral colours for your cabinet doors. Pure white is a great colour to give your kitchen a crisp and fresh look; add colours through other elements such as a feature wall, tiles, kitchen appliances or accessories.
2) Cosy up Your Kitchen
Your kitchen should be as cosy as the rest of your home, make it more comfortable and homely with some of these kitchen design ideas. Add comfort by creating a small seating area in the kitchen, with nice cushions and knitwear to create a cosy look. Alternatively, cosiness can be created through a ‘country style’ design.
3) Boldness is Key
Colour is a needed quality in any kitchen, whether it is a splash of colour, or bold colour throughout. If you want to keep your kitchen quite neutral add colour through accessories such as oven gloves, artwork, pots and pans. Keep the colour consistent with your design, but be bold!
4) Interior Doors
Another way to update your kitchen is to spruce up your interior doors. Adding new doors to your kitchen can completely change the feel of the room, whether you change the finish of the doors or the style, it will make a big difference.
Bi-fold doors are an innovative way to update your kitchen design, by adding this you can also keep the door partly closed if you want to keep the smell of the food cooking in the kitchen more than travelling around the house. By choosing new interior doors you can choose the finish to go with your newly decorated kitchen. Choose from different wood finishes, a white finish or even a flush of paint finish.
5) Add a Backsplash
Add a backsplash to protect your walls from liquids like water or oil. You can have some fun with this feature, as you can be as creative as you like. Find something that will go in with your already existing kitchen design to keep costs down if you are on a budget. A backsplash gives you to opportunity to bring colour into your kitchen and give some texture to the walls. Ultimately, a backsplash is needed for kitchen wall maintenance so have some fun with it, mix and matching your tiles is a great way to get creative with your design.
You can choose from a selection of tiles; a set budget will give you more of an idea of what kind of tile to go for. Advanced technology means you can get cheaper tiles to look like marble or a metal surface, however, take into consideration the quality of tile you are choosing.
6) Be Creative with your Island
An island is a very popular trend for kitchens and has been since the 80s. An island is beneficial to a kitchen as it adds an extra workspace, where you can also sit away from everything going around you and chat to your loved ones, and guests. You can be creative with your island design and add multiple features to the centre piece of your kitchen, like a wine fridge! Alternatively, add a hob to the island, to create to different stations for your cooking needs.
A kitchen island is also a great place for a small dining area for you and your family, grab some bar stools and do up the area into the style you like to create the perfect ‘quick bite’ station. You can also create a bold centre piece by adding colour to the island, for an eye-popping kitchen feature.
