White shaker, charcoal-grey island kitchen, and walk you through unique design features it possesses. Hypoallergenic Finish Solutions One of the biggest priorities in this design was its hypoallergenic characteristics, so we selected solid maple for the door panels and low Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) “Pune Bond” plywood for the interior with solid maple drawer boxes. The finishes are: water-based post-catalyzed polyurethane and hypoallergenic grey stain with a clear coat. Eco-friendliness On top of our aspirations to make hypoallergenic and low VOC material choices, we strive to make our designs highly reusable/recyclable and use local materials and labor to keep CO2 emission as low as possible. This kitchen was manufactured at our factory in Etobicoke, including production of door panels. Durability All our kitchens are practical and as low maintenance as they could be. We use highly durable MDF and hardwoods along with reliable finishes, Blum soft-close hardware on doors and drawers. We achieved this goal when designing this kitchen by choosing solid maple doors, plywood interiors, dovetail drawers, Blum soft-close door hinges and drawer slides. The appliance garages have Aventos parallel lifts. All hardware have a lifetime warranty! Use of space It is crucial that you are able to utilize the space at its maximum capacity as well as it is convenient to work on. As you can see here, we adhered to the ‘work triangle’ rule, making it easy to move between the main prep/cooking components: fridge, cooktop/oven and sink. All ‘hot spots’ of this kitchen are at your arm’s stretch. We incorporated appliance garages, waste management systems, tray dividers, wine racks and last but not the least, a combination of shallow and deep drawers. Esthetics A funny thing about esthetics is that no designer will ever tell you that he priorities esthetic qualities over practicality or cost-efficiency, because we do not. However, this is what sells the kitchen, makes your house unique, increases its value on the real estate market and just makes you feel great! That is why esthetics can’t be ignored; it is just as important as everything else!

Morrison's Kitchen

Done Renovations

Isaac Brown
Mid-sized contemporary l-shaped eat-in kitchen in Houston with a double-bowl sink, shaker cabinets, dark wood cabinets, solid surface benchtops, multi-coloured splashback, stainless steel appliances, porcelain floors, matchstick tile splashback, with island and white floor.

Traditional Updates with Moda Stone Collection

Minneapolis Granite

This is an example of a mid-sized traditional separate kitchen in Minneapolis with a double-bowl sink, raised-panel cabinets, light wood cabinets, granite benchtops, brown splashback, matchstick tile splashback, stainless steel appliances, ceramic floors, with island, brown floor and brown benchtop.

187 Saxon Drive

Northern Home Designs

Alan B. Cooke
Design ideas for a mid-sized arts and crafts galley eat-in kitchen in Toronto with a double-bowl sink, shaker cabinets, dark wood cabinets, laminate benchtops, brown splashback, matchstick tile splashback, stainless steel appliances, ceramic floors and with island.

Una casa a Londra: ricordi, oggetti, memorie

Roberto Silvestri Architetto

Inspiration for a small eclectic u-shaped open plan kitchen in Milan with a double-bowl sink, raised-panel cabinets, white cabinets, wood benchtops, white splashback, matchstick tile splashback, coloured appliances, light hardwood floors and no island.

Alexa Model

W.H. Gross Construction

This is an example of a mid-sized traditional u-shaped separate kitchen in Jacksonville with a double-bowl sink, raised-panel cabinets, white cabinets, granite benchtops, multi-coloured splashback, matchstick tile splashback, stainless steel appliances, porcelain floors, a peninsula and brown floor.

2014 Show Home

Authentic Custom Homes

Photo of a mid-sized transitional l-shaped open plan kitchen in Oklahoma City with a double-bowl sink, shaker cabinets, medium wood cabinets, granite benchtops, multi-coloured splashback, matchstick tile splashback, stainless steel appliances, vinyl floors and with island.

Kitchen Remodeling Projects

IMPROVE or MOVE

Kitchen designed and developed by the Design Build Pros. Project managed and built by Mark of Excellence.
Design ideas for a mid-sized traditional l-shaped eat-in kitchen in Newark with with island, a double-bowl sink, raised-panel cabinets, white cabinets, granite benchtops, multi-coloured splashback, matchstick tile splashback, stainless steel appliances and travertine floors.

Jeffrey Wilde - Tuscany Courtyard Pool Home

Jackson Stoneworks

Jeffrey Wilde Tuscan Model with Wild Sea Granite Countertop
Design ideas for a mid-sized mediterranean u-shaped eat-in kitchen in Miami with a double-bowl sink, raised-panel cabinets, dark wood cabinets, soapstone benchtops, multi-coloured splashback, matchstick tile splashback, stainless steel appliances, light hardwood floors and with island.

River Oaks Contemporary Kitchen

Kitchen & Bath Concepts

Challenge: Redesign the kitchen area for the original owner who built this home in the early 1970’s. Our design challenge was to create a completely new space that was functional, beautiful and much more open. The original kitchen, storage and utility spaces were outdated and very chopped up with a mechanical closet placed in the middle of the space located directly in front of the only large window in the room. We relocated the mechanical closet and the utility room to the back of the space with a Butler’s Pantry separating the two. The original large window is now revealed with a new lowered eating bar and a second island centered on it, featuring a dramatic linear light fixture above. We enlarged the window over the main kitchen sink for more light and created a new window to the right of the sink with a view towards the pool. The main cooking area of the kitchen features a large island with elevated walnut seating bar and 36” gas cooktop. A full 36” Built-in Refrigerator is located in the Kitchen with an additional Sub-Zero Refrigerator and Freezer located in the Butler’s Pantry. Result: Client’s Dream Kitchen Realized. Designed by Micqui McGowen, CKD, RID. Photographed by Julie Soefer.

Kitchen With Beautiful White Cambria Quartz Countertops

Fabricators Unlimited

Countertop Material: Quartz Brand: Cambria Color: Swanbridge Installation for: Stoneshire Builders Installation located in Bismarck, ND Photo by Alison Sund

Whole House Remodel in Hopkinton - Kitchen, Bathroom, & Living Room

RemodelWerks LLC

Photo Credits: Greg Perko Photography
This is an example of a large transitional l-shaped eat-in kitchen in Boston with a double-bowl sink, shaker cabinets, black cabinets, solid surface benchtops, multi-coloured splashback, matchstick tile splashback, stainless steel appliances, light hardwood floors, with island and brown floor.

kitchen Beverly Hills

Pacific1 Construction

Photo of a large contemporary u-shaped eat-in kitchen in Los Angeles with a double-bowl sink, flat-panel cabinets, dark wood cabinets, quartz benchtops, multi-coloured splashback, matchstick tile splashback, stainless steel appliances, porcelain floors, with island, grey floor and white benchtop.

Jordan Hall

Napolitano Homes

Traditional kitchen in Other with a double-bowl sink, shaker cabinets, white cabinets, matchstick tile splashback, stainless steel appliances, medium hardwood floors and with island.

Deephaven, MN

Kreg Staging and Design

Design ideas for a mid-sized transitional galley open plan kitchen in Minneapolis with a double-bowl sink, shaker cabinets, white cabinets, solid surface benchtops, beige splashback, matchstick tile splashback, stainless steel appliances, medium hardwood floors, with island, brown floor and brown benchtop.

Dark Kitchen

Beyond Kitchens and Bath Inc

Design ideas for a mid-sized transitional u-shaped eat-in kitchen in Toronto with a double-bowl sink, raised-panel cabinets, dark wood cabinets, quartz benchtops, multi-coloured splashback, matchstick tile splashback, stainless steel appliances and a peninsula.

Manhattan Townhouse

Christine Markatos Design

Elizabeth Felicella Photography
Photo of a large modern single-wall open plan kitchen in New York with a double-bowl sink, flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets, marble benchtops, grey splashback, matchstick tile splashback, stainless steel appliances, light hardwood floors and with island.

Twin Peaks House

Mihaly Slocombe

Twin Peaks House is a vibrant extension to a grand Edwardian homestead in Kensington. Originally built in 1913 for a wealthy family of butchers, when the surrounding landscape was pasture from horizon to horizon, the homestead endured as its acreage was carved up and subdivided into smaller terrace allotments. Our clients discovered the property decades ago during long walks around their neighbourhood, promising themselves that they would buy it should the opportunity ever arise. Many years later the opportunity did arise, and our clients made the leap. Not long after, they commissioned us to update the home for their family of five. They asked us to replace the pokey rear end of the house, shabbily renovated in the 1980s, with a generous extension that matched the scale of the original home and its voluminous garden. Our design intervention extends the massing of the original gable-roofed house towards the back garden, accommodating kids’ bedrooms, living areas downstairs and main bedroom suite tucked away upstairs gabled volume to the east earns the project its name, duplicating the main roof pitch at a smaller scale and housing dining, kitchen, laundry and informal entry. This arrangement of rooms supports our clients’ busy lifestyles with zones of communal and individual living, places to be together and places to be alone. The living area pivots around the kitchen island, positioned carefully to entice our clients' energetic teenaged boys with the aroma of cooking. A sculpted deck runs the length of the garden elevation, facing swimming pool, borrowed landscape and the sun. A first-floor hideout attached to the main bedroom floats above, vertical screening providing prospect and refuge. Neither quite indoors nor out, these spaces act as threshold between both, protected from the rain and flexibly dimensioned for either entertaining or retreat. Galvanised steel continuously wraps the exterior of the extension, distilling the decorative heritage of the original’s walls, roofs and gables into two cohesive volumes. The masculinity in this form-making is balanced by a light-filled, feminine interior. Its material palette of pale timbers and pastel shades are set against a textured white backdrop, with 2400mm high datum adding a human scale to the raked ceilings. Celebrating the tension between these design moves is a dramatic, top-lit 7m high void that slices through the centre of the house. Another type of threshold, the void bridges the old and the new, the private and the public, the formal and the informal. It acts as a clear spatial marker for each of these transitions and a living relic of the home’s long history.

Custom Modern Kitchen Remodel in Germantown, Maryland

Homeworx

Inspiration for a mid-sized midcentury l-shaped separate kitchen in DC Metro with a double-bowl sink, recessed-panel cabinets, white cabinets, white splashback, matchstick tile splashback, white appliances, vinyl floors, with island, brown floor, white benchtop, marble benchtops and vaulted.

Palermo

Storch Entertainment Systems

Contemporary eat-in kitchen in Orlando with a double-bowl sink, flat-panel cabinets, dark wood cabinets, multi-coloured splashback, matchstick tile splashback, stainless steel appliances and with island.

Kitchen with a Double-bowl Sink and Matchstick Tile Splashback Design Ideas

There’s a lot to consider when it comes to planning your kitchen design. Where do you even start? Gathering some inspiration in a photo gallery is always a good starting point, as looking at different kitchen designs often brings up ideas you haven’t even thought of yet.

Browse Photos of Kitchen Designs for Inspiration and Collect Your Ideas

You can browse through photos of all kinds of kitchen styles, layouts and sizes on Houzz to get started before jumping into any design software or contacting a local professional for help. Here’s a few considerations to keep in mind when planning your kitchen.

1. What Makes a Good Kitchen Design, and Why is it Important?

For starters, you want to find a balance between aesthetics and function. You may have heard of the ‘kitchen work triangle’, which refers to the space between your fridge, sink and stove. You want everything within easy reach when you’re working in the kitchen and look beautiful at the same time. It’s a good idea to take note of both when browsing our photo gallery.

2. Consider Your Space to Determine Your Kitchen Layout

Firstly, consider the space you have, and the limitations that come with it. Do you have a small kitchen and need to maximise your workspace and storage? Can you allow yourself some more space and a big island with seating? Are you designing your kitchen from scratch or renovating an existing design? Which appliances do you already own and what are their measurements? Are there windows you need to take into consideration when planning cabinets? How do kitchen, living and dining areas connect? Depending on your space and needs, you want to use a shape that suits you. U, G, or L-shaped kitchen, with or without island or peninsula? Know your dimensions, plan cabinetry carefully and consider the placement of your appliances. You don’t want to end up with a finished design, only for your significant other to question where the fridge is supposed to go. Consider from the start where your fridge, oven, microwave and sink goes to save yourself from starting again from scratch - remember the kitchen work triangle! You also want to plan the layout of your cabinets. Maybe you’re planning for a pantry and can do with less storage space in your kitchen, so that your design can be one without upper or lower cabinets for a different look. A corner cabinet can be a smart storage solution if you want to keep the look clean and simple.

3. Decide on a Kitchen Style, But Don’t Forget Practicality

You want the style of your kitchen to reflect your personality and taste. We have curated a large array of kitchen styles here at Houzz, from traditional to contemporary to transitional and everything in between. Consider what your cooking style is for a start - Italy is known for its cuisine, so italian kitchen designs are generally popular. Also consider ergonomics - depending on how much time you spend in your kitchen, the height of your counters can make a big difference to your overall health. You also want to consider colour and finishes of cabinets, countertops and splashbacks. Which colour do you want your cupboards to be? Simple, timeless white or rather making a statement in black? Maybe rather a rustic wood? Also consider the colour of your floor - if you have dark floors, you may want to keep cabinets lighter. You could also go for an all-white look and choose black appliances for contrast. Once you know which style you fancy, don’t forget how you will be using the space. You want to keep cooking in mind, as well as how easy to clean and maintain the space will be. How many cooks do you need to accommodate? Do you have kids around? How much storage do you need? Maybe you want to go for open shelves rather than cabinets and allow for easy reach of key items you use when cooking. Again - remember the triangle! Lastly, choose lighting that both enhances the look of your kitchen as well as your cooking performance, providing light in all the right places.

4. Be Conscious of Your Budget

No matter what you plan for your kitchen design, cost is always a big factor. Be sure to plan with your budget in mind. It may make more sense to go for a modular kitchen design rather than custom build. You can save a lot of money if you get at least 3 estimates from professionals before locking in the job. And don’t forget to allow a 20% buffer for emergencies. Once you are ready to hire a pro, our directory will help you find one, no matter where you are. So whether you're looking for an Interior Designer in Melbourne or an Architect in Sydney, you can be sure to find a qualified expert for the job!