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Your kitchen is one of the essential parts of your home because no home is complete without it. It’s a place where you make delicious and hearty food for you and your loved ones to enjoy. The kitchen can be messy, but you can still make it appealing through stylish layouts and designs.
With more people upscaling their interior design, the kitchen can become one of the home’s focal points. From 2021 to 2022, many American homeowners upgraded their kitchen features, such as countertops, backsplashes, sinks, lighting, and appliances. This data shows that more homeowners seek to make their kitchens look visually attractive.
While trendy designs are ideal for showcasing your personality and style, functional layouts also matter in your kitchen.
In the following guide, we bring you the kitchen trends for 2023 and how you can easily incorporate them into your home.
Trendy and Practical Layout Ideas for Your Kitchen
There are many kitchen layouts, designs, and ideas to choose from. Some people may even tell you you should try particular scenarios based on their liking. Their opinions are helpful, but the decision will always be up to you, so here are the trendy ideas you can try for your kitchen.
1. Smart kitchens
Many technological advancements have been made to improve our quality of life. For example, smart technologies connect and work with other networked technologies through automation, remotely accessed anytime, anywhere.
Innovative technologies made smart homes possible including kitchens. Smart homes allow you to control kitchen appliances with smartphones and tablets through your internet connection to support and help with your daily cooking.
For example, a smart refrigerator can let you view remaining food stocks while grocery shopping, so you only buy what you need. Some appliances also have automated timers and temperatures you can access remotely to help with cooking and baking.
2. Multi-functional spaces
Multi-functional spaces mean allowing your kitchen to have an open floor plan. Open floor plans can extend your kitchen’s reach, giving it a more extensive, spacious, and brighter appearance.
This design allows more room for other purposes like pantries, mudrooms, and dining. Some open layouts can connect your kitchen to the living room because no walls or barriers cut the spaces.
Open layouts can help you save energy by bringing more natural light to your kitchen, potentially saving your from high electricity bills. They also help you multitask because you can move around more efficiently.
3. Old-fashioned touches
Some homeowners believe that old-fashioned is still modern. Vintage or retro pieces and patterns may heavily influence these designs. If you’re the same, you can do this to your kitchen, too.
Adding dated touches like vintage-style posters and floral wallpaper can make your kitchen look classic. You can also complete this project over time as you curate various vintage items. When you achieve the old-fashioned look you’re going for, your kitchen can have a sophisticated and modern view of the old times.
4. Open shelves
If you don’t like cabinets, you may opt for open shelves in your kitchen. Open shelving offers more flexibility by allowing you to rearrange things whenever you want. This type of kitchen arrangement is ideal if you love to switch things up based on your desired look.
Open shelves can also enable you to organize kitchen materials to maximize space and save some areas for other kitchen purposes. This arrangement allows you to see your needed kitchen tools at one glance.
5. Natural and organic look
Some people like natural and organic look for their kitchens, and you may be the same. This trend involves putting organic elements like houseplants in your kitchen. Natural and organic elements have earthy tones, bringing nature to your home.
Incorporating nature into your home can bring comfort because its elements naturally blend. If you’re into minimalist settings, an organic kitchen interior is also ideal because there’s not much going on with the designs, which can help you relax while cooking.
To achieve a nature-like kitchen, you should invest in high-quality materials since organic interior designs require durability. Investing means outlining your budget and dedicating lots of time to finding the pieces that match your desired outcome.
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6. Muted countertops and large islands
The countertop is essential to your kitchen since it’s constantly used. Without it, you may be unable to cook and prepare meals properly because it provides movement stability, no matter how big or uncomplicated the cooking can be. At the same time, the countertop is always visible, emphasizing its presentation and appearance for guests.
Some people like bold and dramatic countertop designs, but the current trends are moving towards muted ones. When more elements surround the kitchen, you can use the countertop to lighten the space. You can use soft countertop color shades with minimal tones and patterns to give your kitchen a more welcoming and warmer look.
When you have a big kitchen, you can still have abundant space even after finishing its design arrangement. You may dedicate this remaining space to a large freestanding island. This island can be round, square, or rectangular, depending on your preference.
Whichever shape it is, an island can also be multi-functional, allowing you to have an extra counter with stools, more storage space, an additional prep area, and a sink for washing piles of dishes. You can make your island complement the kitchen layout or stand out with contrasting elements matching the existing style.
7. Eco-friendliness
As more people become aware of climate change and its environmental impacts, sustainable living has been the rage. Many are finding hacks and ways to live sustainably in all life aspects, including cooking, to protect and save the Earth. Aside from cooking, even your kitchen layout can be eco-friendly.
It can be easy to confuse eco-friendliness with achieving an organic look. However, having an eco-friendly kitchen layout uses cork materials and recycled supplies like cabinets and countertops. Eco-friendly kitchen products and designs can also provide durability with style because they can last long.
8. Combined materials
Naturally, you’ll likely want to make your home an extension of your personality and style. While living rooms and bedrooms are the usual accents to represent these aspects, kitchens have also become statements in interior design. For these reasons, combining materials is a handy kitchen trend.
By combining materials, you mix and match different interior supplies to add more visual interest to your kitchen. These supplies can be wood, stainless steel, and marble used in shelves, cabinets, countertops, appliances, or islands. Mixing and matching elements allow you to incorporate a unique and personalized design for your kitchen.
9. Integrated lighting
Lighting matters in every corner of your home. It’s also essential in making your kitchen look sophisticated and trendy. With integrated lighting, you can put lights in specific areas to add ambiance, features, and statements to make your kitchen look stylish.
These lightings can also add functionality that helps you focus on prepping, cutting, baking, washing, and cooking.
Beautify Your Kitchen With Efficient and Trendy Designs
This 2023, refreshing your kitchen with efficient and trendy layouts is in. However, trends may only last for awhile because changes are inevitable. You’re also not obliged to follow these kitchen trends, especially when it doesn’t suit your style and needs.
After all, it would be best if you prioritize what you want to do since it’s your call to decide how your kitchen looks and works.
