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The kitchen has generally always been regarded as the heart of the home. It’s the place where sustenance is prepared and often consumed. It can be the place where homework assignments and school projects are completed, and a kitchen can be a location for an intimate time of sharing heartfelt feelings between good friends sharing coffee or tea. Today’s kitchens also serve as the main docking station for all the handhelds belonging to everyone in the family, and there are numerous small appliances and other forms of technology that provide remote recharging capabilities. You just make sure that the device needing a recharge is located within three or so feet from the appliance or strip. Conventional kitchens have typically been rather monochromatic, with the furnishings and appliances making the biggest statement, in terms of kitchen fashion and ambiance. And with the exception of furniture and window treatments, there are not a whole lot of opportunities to add color-right? Wrong!
The Kitchen is the Most Popular Hangout of all the Rooms in Your Home
Of all the rooms in your home, surely it’s the kitchen that will emerge as the room where you and your family spend the most time. Even though your bedroom might ultimately take the prize, it really doesn’t qualify, as most of the time you spend in your bedroom is during the hours when you are sleeping, and not at all present, at least not cognitively. Your kitchen is where you get inspiration and discover an endless stream of methods for delicious meal preparation, both for everyday consumption, as well as when you are entertaining or doing holiday baking. What follows are some different things you may not know about introducing color to an otherwise mundane kitchen.
Why it is Important to Decorate With Colors That Best Represent You and Your Family Life
It doesn’t really matter what your particular level of culinary proficiency you have achieved: the way your kitchen makes you feel has a lot to do with the way in which it’s decorated, and the way your kitchen makes you feel will determine exactly how much time you will want to spend in your kitchen. It will also play an important role in the level of creativity you actually feel while spending time in your kitchen. And whether you are simply preparing dinner for the night, lunch for tomorrow, preparing food for get togethers and more, your kitchen is the true hub of family life. This is why any forms of color you choose to introduce into your kitchen should reflect your personal style, and be an accurate reflection of you and your direction of graciousness in all that you do. Most color that is included in a kitchen works best when introduced in “pops” and “splashes” that are able to stand alone on their own as a solid statement of flair. On the other end of the spectrum are the more natural colors that reflect and blend in with wood grains and naturally colored tiles.
You Don’t Have to Think of the Color You Add as Being Permanent
Unlike the somewhat longer lasting, or permanent colors of your appliances, floors, walls, countertops, cabinets and furniture, the colors you add to your kitchen don’t have to be permanent; in fact especially when you are not really set on exactly which colors you will be truly happiest with for your kitchen, it’s best to begin with items that might be the exact color you are trying out, but they will be easy exchanged for other experimentation with color. Later, when you are sure that you have absolutely fallen in love with a particular complementary kitchen color, you can go bolder by changing the wall colors, the flooring or countertops and more.
Your Kitchen Doesn’t Have to Match the Rest of Your House, it Can be Distinctively Unique.
The color that you introduce to your kitchen will depend a little bit on your floor plan, however you certainly don’t have to carry the same color scheme from the other connected and adjacent rooms of your home throughout your kitchen. You will want to preserve a modicum of continuity, however, in your base (or main) colors that will serve to unify the overall space enough. And it’s generally a good idea to try to keep to the general theme style of your home, and pick color splashes accordingly. A highly formal home would be able to support bright and dark colors like reds and dark blues without any style confusion occurring. A more Spanish Hacienda styled home would be a good place to introduce splashes of oranges, pinks, teals and reds in moderation. You want the colors you use in your kitchen to compel and inspire, and they can even boldly pop, however the last thing you want those colors to do is to shock anyone, upon entering.
How the Colors You Choose for Your Kitchen Depend on Your Kitchen’s Lighting
When it comes to colors, there’s the color you see on a color chart or color chip, and then there’s the color that you see that depends almost exclusively on two elements: the type and amount of lighting that hits it, and the other colors that surround the color in mention. A really good way to see if a color will work in your kitchen is to take the actual color chip to a fabric store and select a fabric that matches it. You will need to buy a section of fabric that will provide you with at least 10×10 inches. The amount of cash you have to dole out for the fabric will not even come close to equaling the expense you would go to without this preliminary step. Take that fabric “swatch” to your kitchen and place it where you intend to introduce the new color. This will give you the best and most realistic impression of how that color will look in your kitchen. Of course, make sure you are not planning on changing your lighting anytime soon, or you could alternately buy and install new lighting that shows off your new color.