Home> Style Tips for the Kitchen

Image1: Revamped kitchen

Image2: Kitchen cupboards
Image by: Hownowdesign

Text by: Tanya Munshi

Home is where the hearth is as this is the place where the entire family is well fed and looked after. Usually, the lady of the house prepares meals, keeping everyone’s health and food preferences in mind. So why not have a real stylish kitchen, well colour co-ordinated with comfort in mind?

• Kitchen wall colours look best in pastel, white or light shades of pista, blue or peach. Keep the wall colours light as this will make the kitchen brighter.
• Install readymade cabinets for your kitchen as this would save a lot of time and effort. Go for wooden kitchen cabinets with glass doors, this will give a sense of space in the kitchen.Use black granite as the counter-top.
• Avoid marble counter-tops for the kitchen. Marbles stain easily and require high maintenance. Polished granite, especially black or brown counter tops will add style to the kitchen.
• Now add something for the wall that’s right below the kitchen cabinets. Place colourful ceramic tiles – bright yellow and orange, a sea green, or maybe you could do a theme like an aquatic theme.
• If you’re kitchen is large enough, add a small kitchen table with a couple of stools. Use wrought iron table and stools with the table top with colourful ceramic tiles.
• In a large kitchen you can place a beautiful painting of food on one empty wall, but away from the gas of course.For a small kitchen, avoid bulky furniture.
• Better would be to keep the refrigerator outside the kitchen to prevent it from crowding.
• Keep small potted plants on the window sill; this doesn’t matter if it’s a large or a small kitchen.
• Keep the flooring black granite if possible; avoid white floors as it will make the kitchen look dirtier.Match all the crockery, plates and serving bowls of the same colour.
• It could be white, pastel shades, or light shades of pista green etc. when everything is colour coded in a kitchen it will make the simplest kitchen look very stylish.
• Hang a wrought iron magazine/ paper holder on a wall. Keep all your cookery books, a pen and notepad with quick recipes etc.
• If space permits and you have a cosy kitchen table, place a vase with pretty flowers to add to the glamour.

Published in Cooking Goddess.