Let’s create big style in a small kitchen with the help of designer Luc Crawford.
Here’s a step-by-step plan on how to make a small kitchen look and feel larger.
Text Luc Crawford
1. REPAINT. A simple coat of paint, like a
bright white or a light grey will freshen up a
kitchen. Adding pops of colour, will distract
from the small space. Remember, light and
bright.
2. CREATE A FOCAL WALL. Add wallpaper
(a vertical stripe gives height) or even tile a
wall that’s in a direct sight-line.
3. THE BACKSPLASH. Using mirror or glass
subway tile with under-cabinet lighting, will
eliminate dark spaces under upper cabinets.
Mirror is very on-trend.
4. TILING. Depending on the tile on your
kitchen floor, you may want to change it
out. Ideal floor tiles for small spaces are
rectangular in shape and larger-than average
tile.
5. FOCUS ON FUNCTION NOT
APPLIANCE. Create a low impact layout
making sure that your tools crucial to working
in your kitchen are within a proper working
triangle.
6. LOOK UP AND THINK UP. Maximizing
vertical space is the best way to reduce
clutter and increase storage.
7. IF YOUR KITCHEN HAS SOLID WOOD
CABINET DOORS, you may want to create
glass inserts or change out the doors to
glass cabinet doors. Another option is open
shelving. This will help visually open up the
room.
8. PAINTING THE CABINETS and walls the
same colour allows for a complete flow.
9. REMEMBER THAT SLEEK, clean and
tailored all help to achieve an overall look that
will please everyone entering your kitchen.
10. FLOOD YOUR SPACE with as much
light as possible. Dark rooms become
claustrophobic and uncomfortable. Lighten
up that small kitchen and you’ll never want to
leave.
Space designed by Creative Space Architectural Design Ltd., www.creativespace.co.nz
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