Kitchen design ideas blog 2
Contemporary kitchen design is characterized by a subtle simplicity and ergonomic functionality. There is nothing in excess in this Style because every detail is meaningful and necessary. But beside the outer simplicity you will find a high- tech kitchen, equipped with up-to-date devices. The modern kitchen is not only an area for cooking food but as seen wider, multi-functional rest zone, combined with a living-room and dining-room.
The perfect contemporary kitchen provides ultimate comfort for working, communicating and relaxing. Designers tend to turn cold impersonal ultra-laconic urban minimalism into a hot fashion trend, characterized with a bright personality. Modern kitchen cabinetry has flow lines and forms, creating really homely and comfortable ambiance.
Modern Fusion kitchen style
Contemporary kitchen design can be described as the absence of tight limitations and rules in decoration. It resembles eclectic tendency in interior design. Fusion style is a typical representative of this invention. Fusion is not a simple mix of different styles, but it balances between absolutely different, as considered, at first sight, ideas. This Style dates back to 25 years ago, USA.
Kitchen in Fusion style is very eye-catching and vivid because it is equipped with high-tech electronic gadgets and devices. And all this outer look matches with classical furniture, cut-glass chandelier and pin-up wall decorations, picturesque Ethnics with gorgeous Empire, rustic Loft with exclusive Art deco. Fusion kitchen looks unusually but at the same time very cozy.
Fusion style doesn’t integrate diverse elements according to their functions, but due to the emotional impact they produce. It is a really challenging idea for a designer to create a kitchen in Fusion style, for there is a very subtle division between its freshness, light irony and provocation on one side and tastelessness. It is very important to follow a common sense, to unite everything with the help of one dominative idea. Despite the fact that all the details have been taken from different styles, Fusion is dedicated to getting a harmonious and attractive final look without any dissonance and impropriety. In order to reach this goal, it is very important to find and feel the items, ideas that seem as different as chalk and cheese.
The modern kitchen interior design in Fusion Style will create an indelible impression on innovation ideas devotees as well as Conservatism Design adherents.
Fusion style means an original mixture of colors, forms, textures, materials, epochs and cultures as well as rooms. Studio kitchens, dining kitchens, and living kitchens are created with the help of Fusion Style appliance.
Modern kitchen layouts with an island
Modern designers point out that an island kitchen layout has become very popular and significant today. An island is a working zone which may find its place in the center of the kitchen. Modern Island combines cooking and working surfaces, stove hood, sink and leaves enough space even for a bar or a dining zone.
This piece of furniture usually fits well in big and spacious kitchens. Modern kitchen interior design has become impossible without this “treasure” island because most housekeepers rank high its functional and aesthetical advantages. It provides you with freedom in movements about the kitchen for it is reachable from any sides. You can store it with all necessary appliances, leaving the perimeter cabinetry more spacious. Thus, you can provide this island with a dominant role in the whole kitchen interior design, make it functional and geometrical center of the room. Of course, his arrangement demands a spacious area as it serves as an application the main composition. This is one of the best variants of the Studio kitchen layout with open planning.
Both outer look and comfort of this furniture item can have an unlimited number of variants.
Island arrangement of the kitchen has different variants of the design according to various existing Styles, but it is very difficult to imagine contemporary kitchen design without this item. It may play an independent role in the designer’s main idea. And thanks to flow lines and ergonomically nature, it can be fitted even in small kitchens with confined space.
Ultra compact design of a modern mini-kitchen
Designers don’t forget about the owners of tiny kitchens as well. There are some ideas how to make it larger both visually and really by deleting the wall between a kitchen and a dining-room. As a result, the entire flat turns into a Studio. You can optimize the space by installing a multi-functional mini-kitchen. When you close its doors it becomes a compact cupboard. When you open it you can observe a fully-featured kitchen in miniature, equipped with all necessary appliances. At the same time, this mini-kitchen occupies only a couple of meters. Ultra-compact mini-kitchen design impresses by its perfectness and attention to every detail. These mini-kitchens have a unique façade system. You can transform into a multi-level mini- kitchen with no ease.
This kitchen-block consists of the upper and the lower modules. The upper module supplies various drawers, shelves, railings, microwave oven, hood with a cooking top (however, it may be optional). The lower module consists of a countertop with a cooking top and a little sink with a faucet, pull-out waste system, and built-in appliances: mini-refrigerator, dishwasher, gas oven. In some models, you will see even an urban waste blender, water filters, and mini-bar. Kitchen-blocks can be personally designed according to the clients’ lifestyle and preferences.
This unusually designed mini-kitchens are very comfortable and usable. The pleasant moment is that you can hide all the kitchen utensils with the help of a simple movement, by closing the door. It is an ideal way to save the area. That is why it can be placed in a tiny Studio kitchen.
There is a number of contemporary kitchen ideas to provide your kitchen with modern look
Open space
The original idea of living within a kitchen is so popular today that Contemporary Style designers have worked out a hot trend – stylish kitchens that are very similar to Assembly furniture in the living-room. But this furniture is still a kitchen because there are special cooking tops and sparkling faucets. People also delete inner walls and dividers to create a large, open area.
Modern illumination
Kitchen is a place where there should be a lot of light. Mind that kitchens with yellowish shades will perfectly suit French and Tuscan Styled kitchens. Contemporary design means using mostly soft white illumination. Natural light is also very important. If there is little light in your kitchen, you will need to increase the light intensity by means of using additional lightning resources, original lamps that are suitable to your interior.
Ergonomic kitchen furniture
Ergonomics is a science that studies the human everyday activity and works out optimal working conditions as well as living and relaxing. Having applied to the kitchen, ergonomics is considered to be a modern idea to better cooking planning and working. These rules are created to help you arrange the furniture, appliances and organize the space. The working triangular is a main idea of ergonomics.
Provide your kitchen with ergonomic furniture to rationalize and save some spare room. You can also improve the furniture’s outer looks, make it more stylish and elegant. All these improvements are possible thanks to modern roll-and-draw-out units, railings, push-and-open invisible handles, baskets for keeping food, kitchen utensils organizers and other useful items. A detailed project of the effective storing and keeping places in the kitchen furniture guarantees the best effectiveness and comfort for the user. A lot of people nowadays pay great attention to their kitchen ergonomics. This is one the most important characteristics.
Bright design solutions
Reserved features and laconic forms are compensated by saturated colors of the kitchen facades and décor elements. The Even neutral palette is easily complemented with colorful accents, such as eye-catching curtains, legendary blue refrigerator or purple electric kettle. Kitchen backsplashes have also become perfect colorful supplements in the kitchen interior. The bright setting may become a basement for creating a new original interior design. Saturated colors in the kitchen interior are interesting and simple to provide the monotonous space with vividness and energy.
High-tech equipment
It really doesn’t matter which style you have chosen for your kitchen. According to contemporary kitchen ideas, all modern cooking places should be supplied with ultra-modern appliances. All the process is completely automated. Your task is to push the number of sparkling buttons and to keep in touch with kitchen devices by means of messages on sensor screens and decoding of mysterious sounds. A standard set includes a kitchen topping, a refrigerator, a dishwasher, a hood, a food processor, an electric kettle, a blender, a toaster and a coffeemaker. Moreover, this list of tools can be broadened by means of various fryers, fondue pots, crepes pans, waffle makers, yogurt makers, bread makers, double boilers and other gadgets. But you shouldn’t forget that a high-tech kitchen deserves its name only if all its devices will be accessible for their applying, but not hidden deep inside the drawers.