Kitchen Decorating Styles
It is necessary to have some design inspirations when planning your kitchen. Selecting a right style for your kitchen can help you in making a number of your selections. Following are a few kitchen decorating styles that you may consider.
French Country Style:
As the name shows, this kitchen style comes from France. Generally, it has predominately curved lines and light colors. A number of styles of brackets have curved lines that can be used in this style. In a French Country setting, the best choice for colors is pastels. In this type of style, it is appropriate to use ceramic tile backsplash areas with laminate tops that have a wooden edge.
In addition, use natural stone, quartz, and solid surface materials. Nice hammered finishes in iron, copper, bronze, or pewter are great hardware choices. The wood colors should be in lighter finishes such as walnut, pine, or cherry with some distressing.
Victorian Style:
This design style includes lancet arched windows, leaded glass panes, and medieval motifs such as stylized floral patterns. You can paint any cold rolled steel bracket in the dark colors to use it in this type of style. Use a black powder coat in order to provide a beautiful support counter.
Use color palette of golden tones along with olive green, black, and burgundy. For surfaces, you can use ceramic tile, granite, or wood; whereas use ceramic or marble as hardware choice. Ornate polished brass can also be used in this style. For wood finishes, use heavy dark woods such as blackened oak, mahogany, satinwood, walnut, or rosewood.
Transitional Style:
It is relatively a new style that is created by combining Contemporary style with more Traditional Old World design style. This creates a bridge between the old and the new style. The most common sight in this style is brushed metals. Stainless steel comes in various styles and looks great in this setting.
Bright and bold colors are used in the contemporary style, whereas more subtle colors or a combination of colors are used in the traditional style. You can combine quartz or granite with wood accent areas to help delineate a traditional space. Brushed metals, oil rubbed bronze or wrought iron finishes look great in this type of style. Moreover, you can use also tight grained woods such as birch, maple, and cherry.
