Maria Sabella is an E-Design consultant and has spent the last six years working in the interior design and staging industries, as well as writing digital content focused on home-related topics. A few splashes of color are provided by colorful pictures and a large USM unit in bright green. Kitchen rugs are bang on trend and the moment and are such an easy way to add a new focal point to your space. If you don’t have integrated appliances that can really stand out in a small space and become the focus, so covering them up with a café curtain is a cheap solution that looks lovely. If you are designing a small kitchen from scratch, a galley kitchen shape should be our first recommendation. Pick your pot racks and plan your wall space out, figuring out where you want to put the rack.

• For a relaxed aesthetic, give your kitchen a coastal style makeover with light blue cabinets, statement brass hardware, and visually light glass pendant lights.
• If you’re sick of your standard grill, try this wok and fire pit bundle from Solo Stove instead.
• This setup with white cabinets, white tile backsplash and marble countertops, contrasted with black hardware and stove hood, is sure to look stylish for years to come.
• Less is more, so instead of filling all available wall space with units, opt for open shelving, which gives a contemporary look and avoids enclosing the space.
• Shaker kitchens never date and look wonderful in both contemporary and traditional homes.

Clean white floors complement the cabinetry and island in this kitchen. In their place, cantilevered antique chestnut shelves, reminiscent of a ship’s deck, add an organic touch. The shelves display plain white dishware against a wall of deep royal blue tile. The stainless steel appliances and large hanging light fixtures over the island call to mind metal boat fittings. Leave it to designer Kara Miller to bring a stuck-in-the-seventies Tequesta, Florida, home back to life with bold and coastal details.

The Best Renter-Friendly Decor Ideas to Elevate Your Space on a Budget

To create a classic aesthetic that sparks feelings of nostalgia, while using high-end, cutting-edge materials and appliances. To inspire your renovation or refresh, we’ve rounded up 30 traditional kitchen ideas. Scroll on for classic, charming kitchen designs we love and think you will too. Brick floors are versatile and mix well with different textures and tones.

You won’t have to go far to find something delicious to sip on with a built-in kitchen bar. Hold all your favorite beverages in one place with a mini fridge and built-in wine racks. Display your drinkware on floating shelves and always have a cutting board handy for slicing fresh citrus. Who ever said that storage is boring, or that function cancels out any fun factor?! For a simple DIY storage decorating idea, spray paint jar lids and animal figurines in metallic or colored shades, adhere together with glue, and fill with all sorts of scrumptious treats or dried goods. And voila – ‘shelfie’ worthy storage jars with playful, eye-catching allure.

Bring nature indoors

Here, in the Washington, D.C., home of Dan Sallick and Elizabeth Miller, feathery marble, crisp white cabinets, and warm timber details work in concert to foster the airiest of cooking nooks. When you’re working with a 16th-century townhouse, like French designer Eric Allart did, you have to embrace the period quirks. Rather than rip them out, Allart kept them in place and designed a quirky kitchen in unexpected hues to complement them. Here, an inky tile backsplash refracts sunlight, and a Pepto-pink shade on the walls and ceilings works to move the eye upward. The client of this Manhattan apartment doesn’t use her small galley-style kitchen that often, but that didn’t keep designer Lauren Buxbaum Gordon from making it a showpiece. To extend the cabinetry all the way up to the soaring period ceilings.