Design help needed for kitchen please!
We will be keeping the footprint and stainless steel counter tops. Were thinking of a two toned kitchen with textured grey laminate for bottom cabinets and upper cabinets in 2pac matt white with some sort of shaker style? A coppery or bronze backsplash and pendant lights in similar colour to tie together? Out floor is white tile with grey specks and grout. Trying to keep to a budget but don't want the complete flat look of melamine,hence the idea of mixing materials. Don't know if this would work. All comments appreciated. Existing kitchen photos attached. Thanks
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7 years ago
siriuskey
7 years agoNow that's a cook's kitchen, are you keeping all appliances along with benchtops.
You said that you were keeping the same footprint, if the base cabinets are still in good condition would you keep them as is and just replace the wall cabinets with Bunnings paintable shaker style in a soft grey and paint the walls the same colour, still keeping the oven cabinet in Beech.
At the moment your kitchen has a lot of great stainless steel and wonder why the bronze cooper splash back, trend?,
I can see by the photo that the kitchen is a bit dark, so perhaps a mirrored splash back would reflect more light and would look great with the stainless benchtop and the soft grey.
If you are not keen on the mirror for the splash back and breakfast bar
the white tiles could be replaced with French Country white and grey
tilesBeech wood looks great with greys and black & white.
I would look at replacing the Stools, Kmart have $25 dollar stools, different colours
Lighting, an easy cheaper lighting is to use track lighting as you only need to have the one connection, tracks can be joined and placed in any shape or position where light is needed, like over the sink.
You can use both spotlight and pendant lighting with these. PLEASE replace any open corner shelves with cabinets. This would be very cheap to achieve, good luck
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7 years agoSuch a beautiful big kitchen - possibilities are endless!
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