Things to add to your kitchen this year

Designing and creating the kitchen of your dreams can be a daunting task, but with solid inspiration and expert guidance, it’s a piece of cake. Today, the kitchen is not built just for cooking. Rather, it is becoming a multi-purpose room that allows restaurant-level meals to be prepared while also serving as the center of all conversation, dining, social gatherings, and festivities.

Bring bright colors

Give your kitchen a bold update this year. Add some color to your decor where you may not have expected it before. Sometimes contrast creation is needed to get the aesthetic look you are after. Try painting your cabinets in a bold shade (dark or light). These attractive colors naturally attract attention and create a focal point.
Make sure you bring all the main features of your kitchen together in an upgraded and modern way by balancing bold colors with lighter neutral tones throughout.

industrial-lighting

Your kitchen should be well lit to not only keep up with your culinary adventures, but also provide the perfect place to chat and mingle at gatherings. Industrial style lighting is very trendy.

industrial kitchen island

The hot kitchen trend is very industrial. Kitchens are getting a new personality thanks to popular cooking shows showcasing industrial kitchens outfitted with all the restaurant-quality fixtures. Mobile kitchen islands are all the rage, and there’s a clear reason for their rise in popularity. Built with functionality and efficiency in mind, a mobile island gives you the benefit of additional unrestricted counter space in your kitchen plan. Kitchen islands that can be moved from one place to another open up space opportunities in your kitchen that you wouldn’t have with a stationary island. The island style has begun to mimic a more industrial standard with steel casters and stainless steel shelves.

High efficiency

Efficiency is in fashion. There’s no better place to put efficiency into practice than with the shelves in your pantry. Your kitchen pantry contains all the most essential kitchen items and should be a priority when it comes to updating your kitchen. Pull-out pantry shelves not only make finding the right ingredient easy, they make it virtually painless. Pull-out shelves mean you can see everything at once and rearrange just as easily. Make this the year you take the stress out of the kitchen by adding a set of pull-out pantry shelves.