The kitchen is one of the busiest areas in the home. It’s also one of your home’s common areas. Suppose you’re someone who loves home cooking or hosting parties. In that case, you’d want a beautiful and trendy kitchen that you can be proud of and comfortable working in.
If you’re looking to do some kitchen renovation or are about to make some significant decisions for the construction of a new kitchen, here are some of the favourite and trending kitchen combinations you can take inspiration from:
Wood and Stone
With the pandemic, everyone’s looking to bring in that feeling of nature and the outdoors into their homes. Nature brings in more warmth and comfort, a contrast to the coldness of the once-popular industrial feel that uses a lot of stone and steel.
Marble and granite are already used for kitchen countertops. Still, you can also use other natural stones or engineered stones. Use wood or wood textures with visible grains for the cabinets.
Exposing natural textures of materials like wood and stone can be very beautiful and eye-catching.
Black and White
Notice that black is the first colour in this combination. While white kitchens have always been traditional, all-black kitchens are rising. Black can come in different shades depending on the material, the brand of paint, and even the finish (matte, semi-gloss, or glossy).
Don’t be scared of using a lot of black, as you can create a separation between areas and materials with different textures.
If all-black seems too bold or intimidating, you can break up the black with white accents, like using white marble countertops and accent walls. If black still seems too intense a colour, you can go for a slightly softer colour like dark plum or brown shades.
Green and White
When you don’t have a green thumb and can’t use indoor plants to bring nature into your kitchen, you can use the colour green.
Green, significantly darker shades and greyer tones, is a calming colour that can still bring nature’s green to your kitchen. It’s a colour that can relax and also inspire our nurturing sides. Perfect for your kitchen, where you cook and prepare food for your family and loved ones.
Use green for your walls and inject white into your kitchen’s colour palette by painting your cabinets white and using white stone or marble for your countertops.
White and Natural Wood
If you’re going for a very soft look that also exudes elegance, combine white with natural wood.
White should be your primary colour for almost everything- walls, countertops, cabinets. To make natural wood and the beauty in its texture stand out, just use it for your kitchen’s floor.
You can also use engineered wood or tiles with wood grain and wood designs instead. You can add more wood accents in your kitchen through bar stool legs, seats, shelves, or tabletops. Maybe you can also get your hands on lighting fixtures made of wood or made to look like wood.
All White with Black Kitchen Hardware
Go all white to make your kitchen extra bright and look extra airy. You can add variety by using different textures and materials—a sleek marble countertop, matte white painted cabinets and shelves, and off-white tiled floors.
Apply the contrasting colour black to your kitchen hardware: the handles and pulls of your cabinets and drawers. You can even find black faucets and a fridge that’s sleek black instead of your usual white or silver.
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