What should be a modern kitchen in 2020

The kitchen is the soul of every home, a center of attraction for all family members. This place is for cozy meals and informal friendly meetings. Often, the kitchen is the personal space of the mistress of the house, her laboratory and office. It is here that she plans her purchases and knocks out bills, bustles for the comfort of her household and watches TV shows from the corner of her eye. The new interior of the kitchen, many women boast with the same excitement with which they demonstrate a new handbag or ringlet.

A modern kitchen must meet the habits and requirements of its hostess

Fashion trends

Fashion for styles in the design of the kitchen is just as changeable and capricious as fashion for styles in the design of clothes. But, no matter how steep the turns of the era, everyone’s home is his fortress, a quiet haven where you can relax your soul from the frenzied rhythms of life. And the real modern kitchen combines innovative achievements of progress and unshakable traditions of home style in its appearance. The design of the kitchen in 2020 is characterized by a certain eclecticism; Today, decor is a kind of mix of different directions and styles that have become the most popular in recent years.

An eclectic mix of different styles can have an interesting effect.

For example, a country-style kitchen, complemented by a classic noble wood cupboard with carved facades, or lush colored chairs in a calm beige setting. A no less striking accent will be a luxurious chandelier with crystal pendants, inscribed in the Art Nouveau interior. Such a semantic center becomes the highlight of the room, concentrates on itself and closes the overall sound of the decor.

Classic high-tech can make friends with country-style furniture

Any interior will be made exclusive by a bold combination of different textures and materials: stone and polished wood, rough plaster and soft textiles, thin glass and metal. The bold reception will add no less charm to the kitchen: the placement of cabinets in two colors. In addition to originality, this solution allows you to play with space, visually change the proportions of the room.

Green kitchen table and white hanging cabinets on a background of gray walls

Original two-tone kitchen solution

Fresh ideas

Of considerable importance in the kitchen, in addition to color and stylistic design, is the rational organization of space. Functionality combined with decorativeness, and for small kitchens - also with compactness - the main requirement for modern kitchen furniture. The island, if necessary turning into a bar counter, a built-in pantry with full-height shelves and sliding doors, etc.

The cooking area is combined with a bar counter and dining table and cabinets are built into the wall.

In the arrangement of a small kitchen, the need to place a lot of objects on a small area without prejudice to perception and functioning comes to the fore. Corner cabinets, the third tier for storing rarely used things, drawer cabinets, folding panels and transforming tables will help in solving this difficult task.

In conditions of lack of space, it is necessary to use rationally every free centimeter

For cabinets, glass doors are recommended. This significantly facilitates the facades, crushes them and does not allow cabinet furniture to dominate in space. Another aspect was the rejection of the upper tier and its replacement with open shelves or herbal compositions.Traditional sideboard lockers are being replaced by sideboards.

In a small kitchen, open shelves do not constrict space and provide more storage space.

A separate place in the interior design of the kitchen is occupied by plumbing devices and household appliances. Today's trend is brushed black metal, forged in the design of mixers, furniture fittings and frames, fixtures.

Wrought iron chandelier with eight lights

A significant object of decor was the hood. Finished with wood or metal, of a classic silhouette or modern, massive or recessed to the ceiling, wall or central, located above the island - in accordance with the style of the kitchen and the habits of the owner, the hood fits into the interior and becomes its effective component.

The hood in the center above the cooking zone will be a practical and beautiful solution.

To create a special atmosphere in the design of the kitchen in 2020, experts offer a number of original techniques and solutions.

Wooden elements

Not lacquered wood with an exotic texture, such as wenge, mahogany or rosewood, but cozy familiar oak and pine with a matte finish - the main material in the decoration of floors, walls and ceilings. Emphasized negligence, deliberate aging - rustic or untreated, bleached surfaces. The roughly planed board in the design of the facades looks incredibly impressive and stylish.

Rustic style offers an unexpected combination of walls and ceiling from roughly hewn logs and a headset with a glossy surface.

Apron

The most vulnerable and most noticeable place in any kitchen. Ceramic tiles in the decoration of the apron does not give up its firmly won positions. Only today it is bright, colorful and juicy painted ceramic tiles in the style of patchwork. An elegant solution in the design of the apron is to use the same board instead of tile as in the flooring. Glass panel is another brilliant idea for decorating a wall in a work area. Behind glass it is possible to place paper or textiles with any texture or ornament. The mirror will expand the space and give it depth. A glass apron looks very stylish, behind which in a niche there are plant pots and lights

Outside the window a dull city landscape and in your kitchen a panorama of the coast with a beach

Original apron pattern above the kitchen worktop

Landscaping

Elements of the plant world in the decoration of the kitchen are firmly established at the top of fashion. Only pots or boxes with herbs are placed, traditional indoor flowers, ferns and bindweed not on the windowsills, but on the walls, shelves, work surfaces. An excellent move will be vertical gardening, for example, piers between the windows. Or an improvised flower bed with herbs in the island. The floor stone or wooden flowerpot with an evergreen dwarf tree will perfectly fit into the eco-style. Fruits and vegetables in original vases or pastoral wicker baskets will become a delicious accent of the kitchen interior.

Cacti and pike tail will bring revitalization to the high-tech tech design

Fresh greens in pots right on the walls of the kitchen.

Color choice: bright kitchen

Bright colors will not necessarily squeeze a small kitchen. Tasty lime color will make the interior juicy and cheerful, orange will fill the space with sunlight and freshness. Pure yellow color will fill the space with sunlight, help create a cheerful mood. The kitchen in scarlet color is perfect for gourmets and gourmets: it is known that red colors stimulate appetite. Terracotta will make the kitchen cozy and solemn at the same time, ideal for kitchens combined with the main dining room or studios. Violet or turquoise mood for a romantic mood. Cobalt blue, purple, olive, dark brown and lead gray interiors are cold and brutal, and therefore perfect for an apartment of a self-confident bachelor.But the black kitchen can be either masculine, strict and concise, or quite feminine, elegant and cozy.

Bright red warm appetite well

Color Choice: Light Shades

Universal neutral for any style, scale and taste can be called classic neutral tones of the light part of the palette: white, beige, light gray. This design is appropriate both in a small kitchen and in a spacious one, both in classic and in eco style, and is perfect for both an elderly conservative couple and newlyweds. Light shades will visually increase the space, fill it with light and air, become an exquisite border for bright accessories and a calm background for the main element of the kitchen - the dining table. A discreet tone in the decor of the kitchen will not depress the psyche, will not distort the color of the products, and will not tire the eye.

Decor in light colors is suitable for any size kitchen.

For lovers of intimacy, longing for dense colors and distinctive lines, owning a small kitchenette, a contrasting option is perfect: black with white, cream with coffee, sand with chocolate. Dark elements will create the effect of graphicness and severity of silhouettes that is characteristic of chamber interiors. The light ones will crush the planes, pushing the boundaries, and create a feeling of spaciousness. In addition, the colors of the brown row are considered the most comfortable.

Ascetic black color will make cozy spacious white kitchen

Pearl shades of pink, blue, green, purple are also good in small kitchens. Blue will create a feeling of purity, green will create freshness, lilac will create coolness, and pink will create lightness.

Well-chosen lighting will add pearly shades to the color scheme of the kitchen

A little bit about styles

The most preferred styles in kitchen design in 2020 remain - classic style, eco-style, Provence, high-tech, country.

• Classic. Aristocratically restrained and at the same time luxurious elements of the classical style will suit conservative characters. Discreet colors, strict lines, but rich textures of wood and stone, stucco molding and gilding, heavy textiles will create an atmosphere of a noble nest.

The stingy paint classic style is ideal for a kitchen in a private house

• Eco style. Natural materials with emphasized careless processing, the closest approach to naturalness allow you to relax your eye from industrial urban landscapes among shades of earth and water.

Eco-style will fill the kitchen with the color of young greenery and spring mood.

• Provence. Lightness and grace, pastel colors and floral motifs of this style will reproduce the atmosphere of the sultry south with a true French accent.

Provence style - exquisite taste of the French hinterland

• High tech. The graphicness of the silhouettes, laconicism and expressiveness of the elements, limited color gamut will best reflect the determination and independent character of the owner.

High-tech in black with red accents looks solid

• Country. The natural colors of the freshly baked bread, solid furniture of simple silhouettes and light textiles with unpretentious ornaments give a special flavor to the village chamber. Ceramic tiles patchwork, clay or wickerware, ruffles and ruffles on curtains and tablecloths, and pastoral plots in objects of art decor will complete the impression.

Country style house in a log house

Lighting

In terms of lighting, the kitchen design has not undergone significant changes. Lighting should be sufficient, not to leave dark areas. Additional illumination of work surfaces and equipment, multilevel lamps will make the decor multifaceted and spectacular.

Neon lights add unrealistic tones to the color scheme of the kitchen

When planning alterations in the kitchen, one should take into account the general mood of the house: the modern kitchen in the classic design of the rest of the rooms will become an unpleasant contrast for guests and owners.Or, conversely, a pompous Baroque carving in the midst of hi-tech laconicism.

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