CHOOSING A STYLE
In a lot of cases, remodeling your kitchen sets the tone for the rest of your home. Whether you’re looking to totally create a change in style or enhance the kitchen you already love, you absolutely must start your decision making with style.
Your style is the right style and what you say goes.
Below are the 5 main types of kitchen styles our customers prefer to start with.
Traditional Kitchen Styles. A traditional kitchen style gets most of its influence from the 18th through the 20th centuries. Usually incorporating muted and earthy colors for the painted schemes on the walls and the accents around the room. The traditional style kitchen uses neutral colors or white cabinets and straight edges. So using just about any species of wood will work just fine.
Contemporary Kitchen Styles. With contemporary kitchens you’ll probably see bolder colors, more angles and eye catching designs lending to artistic functionality. Dramatic Lighting and unusual fixtures are common. Often times modern kitchen styles incorporate flat metals with very little dimension, but can still be made from woods as well.
Outdoor Kitchen Styles. Outdoor kitchen spaces make great memories. For those of us with enough room for an outdoor kitchen, they are a great way to enhance your outdoor lifestyle. Keep in mind that you don’t actually need as much space as a full-sized kitchen due to not needing room for as many appliances.
Ideas for outdoor kitchens can range from wild and crazy with bold or whimsical colors to earthy brown and green tones to match the natural surroundings of your backyard.
Sometimes it’s a great idea to run plumbing to your outdoor kitchen so that you’ll have the use of a sink and refrigeration unit. Having a fully functional outdoor kitchen will help keep you from having to run back and forth between your outdoor area and your indoor kitchen.
Transitional Kitchen Styles. Transitional kitchens are a solution that involves mixing a more traditional style surrounding with a bit more contemporary kitchen cabinetry style. Many homeowners opt for a transitional kitchen style so that there isn’t such an abrupt change of style from one room to the next.
Olde World Kitchen Styles. Most Olde World Kitchens are made to have an old, distressed look of worn down paints and aged character. Some kitchen styles with an Olde World look are Mediterranean, Tuscan and French Chateau. You may want to plaster walls or add frescos, or paint your kitchen walls with olive greens, light browns and burnt oranges or deep reds.
It adds a lot more of an authentic feel when you leave exposed beams, brick walls and hide the appliances behind cabinetry.
Country Kitchen Styles. Stained, solid and exposed wood brings out the look and feel of a traditional Country Kitchen. Grainy woods such as Oak or Hickory tend to be more common as are scalloped valances and simple doors styles with natural or light color finishes.