Want
to freshen up the look of your kitchen? Maybe you’re building a brand new home
from the ground up, or you’re interested in doing a complete kitchen remodel.
Or perhaps your budget only allows you to change out a few key details in your
existing kitchen décor. If you’re updating your kitchen in any form, before you
spend any money, it pays to get informed about the current kitchen design
trends for 2015.
1. Open
Floor Plan Designs for the Kitchen and the Home
During
the past several decades, we’ve witnessed an evolution from closed to open floor plans. Open floor plans continue to be on-trend for 2015 and beyond. Without
walls to separate the two spaces, natural light from the dining area
spills
into the kitchen, making it feel even more open and light. Let’s you interact
with family and guests while putting the finishing touches on your meal. With
an open floor plan there’s room for everyone to sit comfortably around the
kitchen and in the surrounding living spaces.
Some
ideas would be having a single wall of appliances and floor-to-ceiling
cabinetry is perfect for an open floor plan. A long island houses a sink,
keeping the work triangle compact, and holds additional storage. Island seating
allows friends and family to stay close without getting in the way. When
freshening up the kitchen, you might want to choose a few of your accent colors
from the choices you’ve already made in the family room. You also may wish to
incorporate key elements that tie the two rooms together — perhaps coordinating
area rugs, several well-placed pieces of artwork by the same artist, or
harmonizing color palettes throughout.
2. Metallic or
Gray Kitchen Cabinets
Gray
isn’t the freshest, newest interior design trend going — which could actually
be a good thing for those of you who don’t want to be first to dive into
anything. In the past few years, gray has already been shaping up as a go-to
color, and it is still a relatively safe choice as 2015 progresses. Along
with white, gray is a strong contender for the hottest neutral color in trendy
designers’ palettes for 2015. Gray is also a much fresher choice than the
beiges, khakis and camels that were so prevalent during the last several
decades. For those of you who want to go
up-to-the-minute-trendy, consider adding luster to your gray color stories.
Metallic surfaces are a hot design trend for 2015, and they are easily
accomplished; try freshening up tired spaces with some of the newest metallic
paint colors that are hitting the marketplace now. This is particularly timely
advice for those of you who can’t do an entire remodel; a fresh coat of paint
could do wonders to transform tired-looking kitchen cabinets.
3. Minimalist
White Kitchen Cabinets and Appliances
Minimalist
kitchens have been making a major surge recently White is one of the freshest new “neutrals,”
and it’s a color that makes perfect sense in the kitchen. Think Simple styles, limited colors, flat planes,
and minimal ornamentation describe this recent trend. "Simple and
clean"
Despite what you might think, minimalist kitchens don't have to be ultra-modern. A traditional kitchen with a minimalist twist can be the prefect blend.
Despite what you might think, minimalist kitchens don't have to be ultra-modern. A traditional kitchen with a minimalist twist can be the prefect blend.
It
is possible that the minimalist kitchen trend is a reaction to the excesses of
the housing boom, or perhaps just a natural response to the slower economy.
Either way, we think a minimalist undercurrent will be here for some time,
because such clean and simple designs are usually practical and rarely showy.
Both traits are marks of a longer-lasting movement that shouldn't look dated
any time soon.
4. Think
Oil-Rubbed Bronze and Other Up-To-Date Finishes.
Stainless
steel has its place, and it hasn’t gone away by any means. However, one easy
way to get a fresh, new look is to ditch the stainless steel hardware, and
instead use a look more current. Oil-rubbed
bronze is shaping up to be an important surface for kitchen and bathroom
fixtures such as faucets, handles and knobs. If oil-rubbed bronze is too dark or dramatic
for your kitchen space, check out other currant finishes such as brushed nickel
or chrome.
5. White or
Colorful Sinks
There’s
a dilemma faced by those embracing the trends for warm metals such as copper
and bronze: how do you make it look good with a standard stainless steel sink? The solution: You don’t have to. Instead, you
go with a plain white sink, or perhaps a sink in a warm color that harmonizes. Of
course, that isn’t to say that bronze-colored fixtures would never look good
with stainless steel sinks. There are some designers who have successfully
pulled off such combinations. For many of us, bronze + white is a safer choice.
