When updating or planning a new kitchen, one of the major decisions is about the cabinetry: what colour, what hardware and what door style to install. The following are several trends to get your creative juices flowing.
Environmentally Friendly
Any way to minimise the impact on the environment is popular nowadays. One way to do your bit is to use bamboo, which grows much faster than trees and thus is more sustainable. You won't be cutting down old-growth forests that have taken decades to grow for your cabinetry. Alternatively, you could install reuseable cabinets or else repurpose other elements, such as old doors, into attractive cupboard door designs.
Open Shelving
Open shelving is ideal for evoking a spacious feel in your kitchen, as you don't have cupboard doors blocking off cupboard area. You can see through to the wall behind with shelves, so the room feels slightly larger. You can showcase your favourite china or other elements on the shelves, which you can construct from timber, bamboo, glass or other materials.
Bright Colours
If you painted the kitchen walls in a bright colour, the effect could be overwhelming and unsettling because walls often make for a too-large canvas. Cabinetry, though, with its vertical face and limited area is the ideal object for dramatic hues. Turquoise, moss green, dark red or citron yellow are just some of the beautiful shades to consider. Neutral surrounds will allow the colour to pop while preventing the kitchen from becoming too loud. You could reserve the vivid hues for selected cupboards under the counter and cover the others with quieter tones.
Forget About Hardware
Another trend to consider is to forget about the hardware for your cupboard doors which will give your kitchen a calm and peaceful feel minus the visual clutter. Soft close and push open designs don't require handles. Other doors have contours which you can grip to open, without prominent metal hardware.
Timber
Rather than solid timber, you could install doors that consist of fibreboard, MDF and plywood — which is then covered in a veneer of beautiful hardwood. In this way, you preserve trees as these products use wood fibres, particles or thin wood slices to create the inner material, and all of these products result in fewer trees being logged than with solid timber. The outer hardwood veneer can display rich red grains or be dark or blonde. Your kitchen will benefit from the warmth provided by timber joinery.
For more information, contact a joinery service in your area.