5 Trends For 2015 in the Kitchen and Bath World

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.

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.

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