
The all-
The white kitchen is the champion trophy room for North American families and will not disappear soon.
But the change is happening: the color is quietly coming back to the kitchen.
More and more consumers want to add some friendliness and warmth to clinical white people who are often coldand-
The dominant gray cooking place in the past decade.
Dark blue, light pink and pumpkin are the colors that penetrate into cabinets, islands and even sinks and taps.
"White is the comfort zone for people," Elle H-said . "
Millard, Industry Relations Manager, National Kitchen and Health Association.
"White is about safety and cleanliness.
This is the pure feeling we all want in the kitchen.
In rooms where many of us spend a lot of time, White provides neat, visual simplicity.
Color provides emotion and personality, she added.
"We see more color confidence as the economy improves," said Wendy muxiu Werner, spokesman for coorian Design.
"People choose more colors, and brighter and bolder colors are on the rise.
"Aqua appears in the Clive Christian luxury kitchen at Kips Bay Decorator Show House, which opened in New York this week.
This color is used for the setting of the range hood, cabinet leather lining and Le Creuset tea kettle.
According to the 2018 national kitchen and bathroom Association Trend Report, white and gray continue to dominate the kitchen color scheme, with 90% and 89% of respondents choosing them as "hot" options, but today, h-said: "More people are willing to take risks
Especially millennials.
"You can inject color with a new mint cabinet or lipstick --red stove.
But you can also use the salmon leather bar stool.
Or the color can be smaller, lower
Risk details such as a yellow toaster or Emerald-
Green glass chandelier.
You can simply paint the white walls in green or pink peonies.
Manufacturers are picking the kitchen options with new rainbow shades.
Here are our favorite.
I want to express a big color with an unexpected hue, something fans of the Aga and Lacanche luxury series have been doing for decades.
The Italian company Smeg promoted the Italian retro style in the 1990 s with its pastel and candy
Color refrigerators still sold today for around $2,000.
Big Chill, an appliance maker, has been providing color in the kitchen for 15 years.
A palette of vintage collections, including turquoise, Jadite Green and pink lemonade, inspired by cars and kitchens in 1950.
The starting price of the refrigerator is about $2,400.
"We usually think that our appliances are a kind of color shock in a fairly neutral kitchen," said Orion Creamer . "founder.
"People are nervous about putting a red kitchen at home, but they may get a red fridge.
"For a kitchen that uses one color in multiple elements, he suggests sticking to green, blue, or yellow.
There are also 200 custom colors;
You can even get a chartreuse dishwasher.
More and more designers use two colors on the surface of the kitchen, one for the island and the other for the perimeter.
According to Werner, the shades of white and gray are still the main colors at the kitchen counter. (
Among the existing 181 kinds of solid surface colors, 33 kinds of white and 47 kinds of gray;
There are only two kinds of red, eight kinds of green and one kind of orange. )
However, in small doses, brighter colors are becoming more and more popular.
In the kitchenette, the same color can be used on several surfaces-perhaps some open shelves or small cabinet doors-to unify the space, Werner said.
Color statements can appear on the counter or on the back as bright or reflective spots, H-Millard says.
Manufacturers of quartz and natural stone use glass fragments or metal spots to increase their interest in the surface.
The French blue lower-level cabinets secure the white upper-level cabinets in the kitchen of the 1950 Maryland ranch house, which was recently renovated by Chris snober, a Washington architect at Hamilton snober.
Christy Ley, designer of Chevy Chase Christie Ley interior design, MD, works with snober's clients to pick the main kitchen color other than white.
"She likes orange, he likes green, but they all like blue," said Leu . ".
They chose Juniper blue's Green cabinet and a shaded-like Tailgate: glass tiles in the morning mist.
If you want to paint the cabinets yourself, you will want a hard and durable finish, says Leu.
She advised Shervin to advance Benjamin Moore or Emerald polyurethane decorative enamelWilliams.
"The paint can change the kitchen at a very small cost," said Leu . ".
Her advice to customers who want to have different colors on the upper and lower cabinets is to always apply a darker color on the bottom;
Otherwise, she said, it looks "best"heavy.
"Drawing clues from the style or period of the house is a great way to choose the color that suits the look of your home.
"Traditional houses may use the colors of Williamsburg in cabinets," said snober . ".
"We have done this in several kitchens recently.
Washington designer Caryn Cramer is pleased that her client in Bethesda, MD, does not want
White kitchen renovation.
They decided to use the maple cabinets and oak floors of the old world to show the look of a charming French country kitchen.
The center of this space is a piece of marble.
Oval wooden table on top is freeStation Island.
Its base is painted green in traditional Provence (
Parsley sni by Benjamin Moore).
"The island is a great way to bring colors into the kitchen because it's easy to change or repaint," Cramer said . ".
"I think this is a very happy green and very happy space.
"The tone is coordinated with the light green blue star French door oven and gas stove they chose to complete the room.
The sink may be an unexpected place to add color, but it can become the focus of the kitchen.
Farmhouse sink with large apron front is one of the hottest views at the moment, H-Millard says.
"We have made about 20 years of color for our sinks in Europe," said Akgun Seckiner, president of Bocchi USA . ".
"Americans used to be interested only in biscuits and white.
But now the fireclay farmhouse kitchen in Bocchi is sinking ($650-$2,188)
There are 9 colors, including sapphire blue (
But there is no red and purple available in the brand European series yet). The apron-
The front style allows the color to be displayed more in the room.
The Elkay brand has recently launched a stainless steel farmhouse sink in a variety of colors that can exchange the front of the apron ($750-$1,149; aprons $250-$449).
H says use the color on the sink
Millard, let it be a design element, not just a fixture.
Choose from stainless steel, nickel, chrome or bronze faucet finishes.
Now you can dress up the faucet in color.
Half essencePro single-
The Grohe handle faucet has an interchanging silicone hose in nine colors, including yellow, purple and green. (
Faucet, $699-
Available for $899, standard black hose;
The extra hose is $85. )
You can use a color to match a Vertical mixer or tailgate in the same tone.
Or you can turn this faucet into the only color in your kitchen.
"Think about using a pink or red faucet," said Noelle Gibson, senior director of Grohe faucet . ".
"It's going to make a real sensation for all of you. white kitchen.