Shabby-Chic Style Kitchen Design Ideas

A charming, cottage style kitchen that's both sweet and warm. Decorated in an elegant damask with a complimentary botanical border, this space is pure loveliness.

We completed a luxury apartment in Primrose Hill. This is the second apartment within the same building to be designed by the practice, commissioned by a new client who viewed the initial scheme and immediately briefed the practice to conduct a similar high-end refurbishment. The brief was to fully maximise the potential of the 60-square metre, two-bedroom flat, improving usable space, and optimising natural light. 

We significantly reconfigured the apartment’s spatial lay-out – the relocated kitchen, now open-plan, is seamlessly integrated within the living area, while a window between the kitchen and the entrance hallway creates new visual connections and a more coherent sense of progression from one space to the next. The previously rather constrained single bedroom has been enlarged, with additional windows introducing much needed natural light. The reconfigured space also includes a new bathroom.

The apartment is finely detailed, with bespoke joinery and ingenious storage solutions such as a walk-in wardrobe in the master bedroom and a floating sideboard in the living room. Elsewhere, potential space has been imaginatively deployed – a former wall cabinet now accommodates the guest WC.

The choice of colour palette and materials is deliberately light in tone, further enhancing the apartment’s spatial volumes, while colourful furniture and accessories provide focus and variation. Photographer: Rory Gardiner

Design ideas for a mid-sized traditional galley eat-in kitchen in Atlanta with shaker cabinets, white cabinets, granite benchtops, travertine splashback, medium hardwood floors and with island.

Carlos Muntadas
Large traditional galley eat-in kitchen in Other with flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets, white splashback, cement tile splashback, painted wood floors and no island.

Andrew Sherman
Inspiration for a traditional eat-in kitchen in Wilmington with recessed-panel cabinets, distressed cabinets, white appliances and marble benchtops.

Private Residence Photo by © Bill Mathews Photographer, Inc
Traditional kitchen in Kansas City with wood benchtops.

Photos by Mark Lohman and styled by Sunday Henrickson for Tumbleweed & Dandelion.
Design ideas for a traditional separate kitchen in Los Angeles with distressed cabinets, white splashback, subway tile splashback and white appliances.

Photo of a mid-sized traditional u-shaped eat-in kitchen in Austin with recessed-panel cabinets, white cabinets, marble benchtops, grey splashback, subway tile splashback, stainless steel appliances, with island and dark hardwood floors.

Deziner Tonie & Associates
Traditional u-shaped eat-in kitchen in San Diego with a farmhouse sink, beaded inset cabinets, white cabinets, marble benchtops, red splashback, glass tile splashback, stainless steel appliances, medium hardwood floors and a peninsula.

beautiful stone wall in kitchen, exposed beams and simple rustic kitchen
This is an example of a traditional separate kitchen in Other with a farmhouse sink, recessed-panel cabinets, distressed cabinets, wood benchtops, beige splashback, ceramic splashback, coloured appliances and terra-cotta floors.

A French Country Renovation by Interior Designer Linda Woods based in Perth Hills. Unique and wonderful elements to tie it all together to express unique style.

Séparer les espaces cuisine et salon grâce à un grand plan de travail transformé en table à manger.
Design ideas for a traditional kitchen in Paris.

Designer: Caitlin Wilson Photographer: Drew Kelly
Traditional kitchen in Portland with white cabinets and stainless steel appliances.

Design ideas for a traditional l-shaped kitchen in Other with stainless steel appliances, an undermount sink, raised-panel cabinets, white cabinets, white splashback, marble benchtops and marble splashback.

2x8 porcelain subway tile in herringbone pattern with marble countertops and glass front cabinets. Jennifer Vera Photography.
This is an example of a mid-sized traditional l-shaped separate kitchen in Dallas with an undermount sink, white cabinets, marble benchtops, white splashback, porcelain splashback, stainless steel appliances, with island, shaker cabinets, porcelain floors and beige floor.

Small traditional l-shaped eat-in kitchen in Detroit with a farmhouse sink, shaker cabinets, green cabinets, quartz benchtops, grey splashback, glass tile splashback, stainless steel appliances, dark hardwood floors, with island, brown floor and beige benchtop.

Embracing the vintage, and her love for Shabby Chic style, this coastal beach client wanted to retain her original stove, as well as her original kitchen cabinets. We also kept all her vintage china and old appliances. We removed the old tile counter and backsplash, and replaced them with a butcherblock countertop from IKEA, and beadboard backsplash. The farmhouse sink and bridge faucet and vintage style chandelier were also purchased for the new space. Since my client doesn't use the old stove very often, she opted for no hood above the stove. The breakfast nook is quite tiny yet still suitable for morning breakfasts for two.

Valley Gold Vein Marble in the butlers pantry used as a drink station for the dining room.
Photo of a large traditional eat-in kitchen in DC Metro with marble benchtops, with island, brown cabinets, white splashback, stainless steel appliances and dark hardwood floors.

Architect: Architectural Solutions, Inc.; Photographer: Steve Chenn
This is an example of a large traditional u-shaped eat-in kitchen in Houston with a farmhouse sink, shaker cabinets, white cabinets, solid surface benchtops, white splashback, ceramic splashback, stainless steel appliances, medium hardwood floors, with island and brown floor.