For a warmer kitchen
19.8.2020
Translation: machine translated
To warm up the atmosphere in a kitchen where stainless steel sinks and cold tiles reign supreme, a few tricks are all you need. They are quick to implement and inexpensive.
As I don't like cooking, I don't spend much time in the kitchen. It's all very well when you live in a busy area with plenty of restaurants and read the advice of food bloggers who give pride of place to raw food. But to get myself into the kitchen regularly, I've developed two strategies: inviting friends over more often and aligning the kitchen with the comfort of my living room, the latter of which works with just a few tricks.
Height
Instead of putting all your kitchen utensils away in the cupboard, why not use some of them as decoration? By hanging them up, you save space and get creative. For knives, there are magnetic strips - more practical than bulky blocks or fruitless searches in drawers filled to the brim - to fix to the wall or a cupboard. The same goes for chopping boards: hanging them up keeps them close at hand and saves space. Classic or modern, they'll enhance your walls.
Dish brushes, which often get in the way at the edge of the washbasin, or saucepans, which are difficult to stack, can be hung just fine. To do this, use a towel holder and attach your kitchen tools to it using S-hooks! Above a central island, this installation makes quite an impact. Otherwise, it's perfectly possible to fix this bar to a wall if the ceiling height in your home is too low.
Challenging the design
To display your kitchen gadgets, they need to be worthwhile. When you next go shopping, avoid choosing the usual supermarket variant! Instead, there are some great shovels and scrubbing brushes featuring designs that are both elegant and engaging.
Still life
What a shame to leave beautiful, quality crockery in the cupboard! Resort to the shelf, which, like the bar or magnetic strip, will put your gorgeous plates and cups on show! Combine it with a fruit bowl and decorative cookery books! Instead of displaying your entire spice collection, select the most important ones by decanting them into jars or ceramic containers! If you're worried about dust, create pretty arrangements in transparent or translucent display cases! Spread the colourful objects across the foreground of the cupboard as if to create, like a mural, a spray of colour, a technique that adds pep to a kitchen with monotonous cupboard fronts.
Nature
Plants make rooms more welcoming. Kill two birds with one stone by letting herbs into the kitchen that you can also use for your small dishes! They'll find a home in pots to hang from a bar or on plant staircases. Fresh or dried, flowers will also enhance your room's decor. Just like bathrooms, standardised kitchens often seem cold and sterile because of their metal elements. Interior decoration in natural materials such as wood, cork or rattan provide the necessary warmth.
No concessions
Textiles will give the kitchen a cosy feel in an instant. Keep your colour code in mind and also venture into bold patterns that will add a decorative touch to the room, just like a dress that enhances a body! Rugs are often labelled as impractical for kitchens. But it's simply a question of the material. The fabric blends used for outdoor rugs are more resistant to stains than those used for classic models. Printed vinyl rugs, giving the impression of being as cosy as their counterparts, are intended to be waterproof and abrasion-resistant.
Treat your kitchen like the rest of your interior by adding charm to your open spaces with photos and other personal items! There's nothing to stop you putting together an entire wall of photos in the kitchen. The same applies to lighting. Alongside a task light, a ambient lamp will bring a muted touch to the room. During the day, the lamps are intended to be decorative. You can upgrade your light sources with a dimmer in warm colours, compatible with home automation applications or powered by Bluetooth.
I admit that only the first of the two strategies works. Despite a nicer room, I still don't like getting down to the stove. Only guests motivate me to don my apron. But since this room has regained its credentials, I spend a bit more time in it, I must admit.
Pia Seidel
Senior Editor
Pia.Seidel@digitecgalaxus.chLike a cheerleader, I love celebrating good design and bringing you closer to everything furniture- and interior design- related. I regularly curate simple yet sophisticated interior ideas, report on trends and interview creative minds about their work.
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