Looking around our kitchens it is easy to sometimes feel that there is a little to be desired in this room of our homes. As our kitchens really get put through the mill on a daily basis, this is one of the rooms that can look old and scruffy really easily. As a full on kitchen renovation can take a large amount of time and money, why not tackle your kitchen one area at a time, in order to avoid a full on renovation.
The good news is that there a lot of things that you can do to update your kitchen without losing the use of your kitchen for a month and without breaking the bank, and here is how to do just that.
Start With Paint –
Giving any room a good lick of paint is always the best place to start with any home renovation or DIY room face-lift. So covering all your existing furniture, get to work painting your kitchen either a warm, cosy or neutral colour, or try ramping your kitchen up a notch by trying a new, bold, vivid colour scheme. The great thing about paint is that it never has to be permanent, so you can afford to be a little bit playful and adventurous in this area.
Change the Lighting –
Getting the right lighting in our homes, is everything. The lighting that we have in the different rooms in our home has a direct impact on the mood and atmosphere in each space, so this is a really important design element to get right. Depending on whether your kitchen is too dark or too light you will want to think about adding more or less lighting. Try introducing extra downlights or spotlights in the cooking area for proper illumination whilst cooking, or even consider installing a skylight to bring in as much natural light as possible. For low lighting think about a cute little mishmash of lamps that you can add to your kitchen to create a relaxing and calming evening ambience.
Bespoke Furniture –
Kitchens with unusual angles or inconvenient shapes very often are difficult to cater for when it comes to the right furniture. If your kitchen looks a little odd in your kitchen why not look at ordering some bespoke furniture, especially made for your space with a bespoke furniture specialist like, Bespoke Interiors. Getting kitchen furniture hand made means that you can have all your cupboards and cabinets made to measure so that you are making the most of every inch of your kitchen and so that every nook and cranny is taken advantage of.
Update Appliances –
This is a really fun aspect of redoing any kitchen as you will get a really nice boost to the efficiency of old appliances that you have been wanting to replace for a while. Large appliances such as fridges, ovens and dishwashers should all be replaced with newer models of exactly the same dimension, in order to keep the costs down. The smaller kitchen surface appliances that you want to replace can be done in a way so that they compliment each other and create a stylish and sophisticated range of products on your counter top.
Deal with flooring –
Kitchens with reasonably new floors need to be well maintained in order to keep them looking as good as possible, for as long as possible. Wooden floors can be sanded down and varnished to bring them back to their former glory. Or perhaps you can ramp up your flooring and paint wood or tiles a completely different colour. Tiled floors can be dealt with, with a dose of good old fashioned elbow grease by cleaning up grouting to make the floor sparkle and look really clean and fresh.
If your kitchen floor has really seen better days then maybe it is time to treat yourself to a completely new floor. Look around your kitchen space and consider the type of flooring that you think would work best for the space that you have available to you, and that would be suit the style and decor of the kitchen.
Replacing Tapware –
You would be surprised the difference a good pair of new taps can make to the overall aesthetics of your kitchen. Replacing old taps is actually a really easy DIY job and as there are so many fabulous tap designs on the market, some are actually like works of art, you can have a gorgeous looking new sink in no time at all.
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