Redesigning The Kitchen – Here’s Our Top 5 Tips

Kitchens usually are the most overlooked and ignored part of the house. They regularly miss out the vital redesign while other areas are being renovated. Here are some quick and elaborative tips to give your kitchen a peppy hip vibe without compromising on practicality.

Follow the Theme

You can take a hint from restaurants, and follow a theme that carries all the way to their kitchen. Be it minimalistic furniture, use of colours, artistic lighting or open kitchen scheme, there is something that can be adopted as per your taste and kitchen space.

Start with the Biggest Accessory

If you have a budget to spare, then we suggest upgrading the biggest accessory in the kitchen. No, not the cooking range/stove, but the refrigerator. There are tons of options available that can fit any budget and décor, our recommendation is to stay one step ahead of the trend and go with a camouflaged, in-cabinet refrigerator. This way you won’t have to upgrade your refrigerator too often, and it would also give a holistic look to your kitchen.

Colours

The pro, future-proof tip is to go organic. Follow wood theme or neutral light colours like white, light blue and green. Not only these colours are easy to clean and re-apply, they also allow following your home’s theme with ease. How? Well, simply use bright colours in and around the kitchen through small accessories; a pot, stool, hanging light and even a curtain will do.

Go Bare, Open Shelves

This is a tricky one and you’ll need to reignite the designer in you to pull it through. Though going for open shelves is a lot more practical, but you don’t have to go all out with this one. There can still be shelves with doors, but these must not be in direct line of sight. Also, use bigger pots and colourful glasses, your artistic cutlery needs to be on display. Additionally, with open shelves, you increase your canvas as the wall can be painted and decorated according to your will.

Pro tip: use bright colours or patterns in open shelves in case you are going with the white theme.

Have a Center Piece

A centrepiece is the first and most prominent sight any visitor notices entering the kitchen, so get your creativity hats on. Now options are huge; you can go for a vacant wall, get it covered with a wallpaper, or better, with chalkboard paint. Black is bold and gives you loads of space to show off your creativity on a daily basis; you can use colourful chalks to demonstrate recipes, today’s menu, weeks best quotes, to-do notes and what not.

Additionally, the centrepiece doesn’t necessarily have to be your wall, it can be your open shelf – make sure to give artistic touches though -, or it can be your multi-purpose table. You can use it for cooking, chopping and eating with family, just push small stools underneath the wide slab. The key here is minimalism; less is more, so go with a simple wooden or stone slab, nothing fancy.

*This is a collaborative post.