What’s Trending In The kitchen?

What’s Trending 

As stated by the inimitable Coco Chanel, “Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever.” The same rules can be applied to the modern kitchen as ensuring that yours stands the test of time comes from incorporating tried and tested kitchen styles into your design. However, there’s nothing to say you can’t have some fun with the latest trends for kitchens in 2013 if you blend them seamlessly into your already elegantly formed kitchen.

Here at My Beautiful Kitchen, we’ll show you how to get all the greatest looks without looking like a kitchen fashion victim.

All natural

Natural stone and wood finishes are very popular right now, and luckily enough they are also a timeless and classic look that is easy to pull off.

Consider granite work surfaces combined with a natural wooden counter top for the kitchen island.

Natural colours are big in the kitchen right now also, with white leading the way as the first choice for many kitchens. White is perfect for kitchens that may be running low on space or need to reflect some extra light.

White is also beneficial for the kitchen as it always manages to look clean and effortlessly chic.  Combine the two trends and get the look with the Fresco White kitchen design from My Beautiful Kitchen.

Open spaces

Having an open plan kitchen has been a modern favourite for quite a few years, but recently there have been a surge of requests for this type of kitchen as its advantages over a closed kitchen area are manifold, particularly for those short on space.

An open plan kitchen and dining area is perfect for entertaining and opening up extra light and space to an otherwise small room.

Here at My Beautiful Kitchen all it takes is a few carefully chosen measurements and adjustments and you can have your enclosed kitchen space transformed into a beautiful open plan area.

Having a floor plan

The trend with modern kitchens has transformed the place of the kitchen from a room filled with function to the heart of the home. Kitchens now have to accommodate far more than a mere cook.

Often joint cooking now takes place in many homes, children get involved in cooking, homework is done at the kitchen table, guests sip their bubbly from stools at the kitchen island… the kitchen is the nerve-centre of the modern house.

If you want a kitchen that can cope with being a cooking area, entertainment centre and all round living space, then you need to have your floor plan thought out very carefully, including not only where you decide to place your cabinets and island but also where you intend to place the dining area.

It’s no good thinking about it after the fact, so if you want to have your kitchen get in line with the modern trends, you need to have every facet of it planned out before you start. Talk to a designer at My Beautiful Kitchen to ensure you put your best foot forward in planning your new kitchen.

For more hints, tips and ideas on how to create your dream kitchen, call My Beautiful Kitchen on 0141 771 3640, or bob in for a chat and a brew.