Showing posts with label traditional kitchen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label traditional kitchen. Show all posts

Saturday, 22 October 2011

Remodeling Your Kitchens by Going Traditional Now

Remodeling Your Kitchens by Going Traditional Now  - Dean Gammell


One of the most intriguing topics that most homeowners and business enthusiasts have is whether to remodel their kitchens with a contemporary or modern look or to try to redesign by going traditional and classical.

Remodeling kitchens has always been a challenge to every homeowner. The most decisive part of this is when the homeowner must look for a final design as part of a home makeover. Thus, before looking for materials, equipment, and other gadgets that will add a fresh look to your kitchen, you must first browse over various possibilities of a certain kitchen design.

The most common kitchen type is the traditional design with its formal and elegant look that resembles American or European home preferences for a kitchen way back in 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. This traditional kitchen will surely have fluting corbels, crown and rope mouldings, ornamentations and trims, cabinets with cherry design, drawers with walnut design, countertops made of mahogany, raised panel cabinet door styles, antique appliances and fixtures, natural materials, and stone fixtures.

Another kitchen design that closely resembles the traditional is the Victorian style. This kitchen style has cathedral arch doors, raised panels, ornate accents of mouldings and trims. Further, most of the kitchen fixtures are made of dark and heavy wood types. The Italianate design is similar to both the general style of the traditional and the Victorian style. Italianate kitchens are generally painted cream and most fixtures have carved designs of fruits and other images of nature.

Another variation of the traditional is the Georgian type with the signature look of square panel raised doors with the typical, heavily accented crown mouldings and stacked cabinetry that reaches the ceiling. A painted black island for the kitchen is also a common look.

Further, most traditional styles cover other European and American kitchen designs and structures. These include the Colonial, Edwardian, Farmhouse, Regency, Cottage, Plantation, Estate, Cape Cod, Federal, Bungalow, Queen Anne, Early American, Neoclassical, Shaker, and Manor looks.

A kitchen must have a cheerful and welcoming aura at all times for the household and for the guests. Choose a traditional kitchen style has always resembled a sense of comfort and order.

It is always invigorating for every busy household to have kitchens that are quite different from today's look of a modern kitchen. The traditional style of a kitchen shows that such area is filled with patterns that brighten the homeowner and add further appeal for the whole house or establishment.

Traditional Kitchens Embrace Homey Details

Traditional Kitchens Embrace Homey Details - Sarah Crosset


For years the traditional style of home decorating has gotten a bad rap. Its worst examples have always been criticized as too formal, too regimented or just plain boring. However, this style has a lot more going for it than most people might think, thanks to current designers who've updated the best of its principles.

First, don't think of a traditional kitchen as if it's country or even a European style such as Tuscan. A kitchen done in traditional style incorporates English and French elements, but the colors are more muted, such as creams, light grays, soft greens, taupes, or warm whites. This kitchen decor also seeks, like Country, to bring nature inside, so its motifs include butterflies, dragonflies, flowers and fruit.

Yet while it's eclectic, this is still a home decorating style that stands on its own. It brings in more homey touches, the kinds of details and ornaments that are absent from most modern kitchens, but it incorporates them in ways that avoid becoming cluttered. The focus is on creating a warm, homey mood for the kitchen, the room that is unquestionably the heart of every home.

Traditional style functions best in kitchens with many windows, especially a bay window if possible. This abundance of natural light highlights the natural materials used on the floors, for the cabinets and in furnishings. Brick, stone, marble or wood will be found in countertops and on the backsplash behind the sink, touches that give a Traditional kitchen a handcrafted look. Wood may be painted, but the paint probably will be a whitewash that allows the grain to show through.
Here are some tips to create a Traditional style kitchen.

  1. Get rid of any ambiguous furniture and anything with the sleek, simple lines of Contemporary and Modern styles. Choose a few pieces from clearly defined periods, and then start building the design around these pieces. Choose molding and cabinet trims to fit the style of the central pieces. Then start mixing in elements from other periods that are compatible with the main style to achieve the eclectic blend that marks traditional style.
  2. Use a pattern in the flooring, such as basket weave. If using stone flooring, look for irregular shapes to give the room a more natural mood (remember, bring nature inside!). Or mix a lighter stone like limestone with darker stone such as slate and place them in an irregular pattern. Top this flooring with floral rugs in acrylics that withstand traffic and spills.
  3. If the kitchen has a bay window, create a breakfast nook in the space. Install a wooden table with one or two bench seats, and a couple of chairs on the ends or one side. Choose furniture with carvings, columns or turned ornamentation.
  4. Bring color into the room using fabric. Choose curtains printed with nature scenes and contrast the pattern elsewhere with stripes. Avoid designs such as geometric rugs or cushions, since these sharp lines and angles common to Modern and Contemporary styles clash with traditional schemes.
  5. Create focal points in the kitchen by choosing different designs or shapes for cabinet knobs. Once again, avoid anything streamlined, such as faucets or other hardware. The focus is definitely in the details with this design.

Sunday, 13 February 2011

Transitional Kitchen Photos

Transitional Kitchen Photos

Craftsman-style architectural details in open-plan kitchen

Kitchen and living area with matching cabinetry and colors

Open kitchen located at front of home

Island with rangetop and range hood, black grantie counters

Kitchen with pendant light, track lighting, windows and skylight


Transitional Kitchens

Transitional Kitchens

Shaker-style kitchen with washer and dryer

Kitchen with stacked cabinets, large island

Arts & Crafts kitchen with cherry cabinets and large island

Kitchen with cherry cabinets, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances

Kitchen with stone walls, fireplace, lake view


Transitional Kitchen Designs

Kitchen Remodel Designs




Kitchen design inspired by Biedermeier furniture

Small kitchen with movable island

Kitchen with banquette seating, island, maple cabinets, bamboo floor


Transitional Kitchen Ideas

Transitional Kitchen Ideas


Kitchen with maple cabinets, copper vent hood

Transitional kitchen with maple cabinets and black granite countertops


White kitchen island with granite countertop and dining table





Transitional Kitchens

Transitional Kitchens

Contemporary



Craftsman

Small City Kitchen


Rustic Kitchen Pictures

Rustic Kitchen Pictures

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Remodeled Rustic Kitchen

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Rustic Kitchen

Rustic Kitchen

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Old World Kitchen Pictures

Old World Kitchen Pictures

Cherry and Maple Kitchen Cabinets

Open-plan Tudor Kitchen

Shaker Maple Cabinets

Multi-Colored Cabinetry

Aged Pine Cabinets


Old World Kitchen Photos

Old World Kitchen Photos

Tuscan Farmhouse Kitchen

Purple-Colored Kitchen Range

Tudor Style Kitchen

19th-Century English Kitchen

Cozy Tuscan Kitchen

Burgundy Range with Brass Trim


Old World Kitchen

Old World Kitchen