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But then – last night, my friends were stunned by the change.
A Kitchen For Fun Cooking
Picture this:
It’s morning. You walk into your kitchen. It’s a week after your kitchen remodel. You’re in awe at how your kitchen looks.
Friends are visiting tonight.
How will they react to your new kitchen?
By design, the kitchen follows the 2020 trends.
Here’s a summary of the
2020 trends.
First up is kitchen style – Contemporary, no visual or physical clutter, simple lines, warm, friendly for you to enjoy.
A Contemporary styled kitchen is the trend choice.
The underlying thought is clean and simple. Simple white/gray cabinets. An interesting backsplash. A hardwood floor. No clutter. Everything tucked away. Clean lines.
What’s emerging as variations to the Contemporary style are the Industrial, Mid Century Modern, Mountain Modern, and Coastal styles.
For colors, 60-30-10 is the rule. 60% one dominant color. 30% secondary color. 10% accent color.
What is your color theme?
Color Themes – you’ve fallen in love with your dazzling two tone color kitchen.
A two tone gray and white kitchen is a major kitchen trend 2020. Why a trend to switch to a two tone color scheme from an all-white? Yes, all-white kitchens are popular. But the perception is that the all-white tone appears to be too clinical.
A two tone blending of white with an off-white soft hue such as gray gives the kitchen a refreshing look. Not something sterile like an all-white operating room.
One suggested kitchen color theme is white upper cabinets, lower cabinets gray, white countertop, gray backsplash, white walls, gray floor, and gray doors. It’s dazzling.
Next, let’s get into the recommendations for specific components of the kitchen.
Countertops is our first component to look at.
Countertops – a low maintenance material that does not stain. Always looking great.
Quartz is the kitchen trend 2020 material for countertops. It is a hard, strong material resistant to scratching. Also, quartz is non-porous. It will not absorb liquids. Absorbed liquids result in staining and offers a place for bacteria to grow. The popular granite countertop material requires a seal coating to keep liquids out. You would apply a new coating at least once a year.
Quartz is easy to maintain and durable. It has a great look.
Another trend is having the quartz countertop integrated with the sink. This eliminates the gap between the countertop and sink. No more gap. No more food or mold build-up.
Now, let’s look at cabinets.
Cabinets – make your kitchen look clutter free by hiding appliances, cooking gear, and small canisters.
Gray wooden cabinets with a simple flat door style are dominating the 2020 kitchen. Metal cabinets are a small segment that is growing. They are popular with younger male designers.
Most popular features in the cabinet design are pullouts and rollouts with deep (typically 24 inches), divided drawers organized to keep everything in place.
Under cabinet LED lighting is also trending up.
Larger cabinets are trending in use to hide refrigerators.
A popular design variation with cabinets is to have open shelving on the upper half. You have the opportunity show your artsy-craftsy stuff.
To have the cabinet and countertop designs standout, a decorative backsplash is recommended.
Backsplashes – a design to express your personality.
Kitchen trends for 2020 highlight the backsplash becoming a visual focal point for the kitchen. They’ve become decorative. Sometimes as a delightful, enchanting expression of the homeowner’s personality.
The trend is to extend the backsplash all the way up the wall. Usually to eliminate the four inch high slab from the countertop.
Now, let’s look at appliances and what is recommended for their design.
Appliances – hidden, making you look organized.
Hiding appliances is part of the clean line style in kitchen trends.
Refrigerators and freezers are becoming separate appliances. GE has a tall, column refrigerator that you can hide behind one of your gray doors. To save kitchen space, a separate freezer often resides in the pantry. Gone are those out in the open stainless steel monsters.
Induction cooktops and convection ovens are part of the kitchen trend. Some owners prefer steam ovens for preparing moist dishes. Slow cooking / warming drawer combos are also popular.
Air fryers are becoming popular also. Great for a small home cooked meal.
Seniors are trending towards side door opening ovens.
Microwave drawers, toasters, blenders, air fryers, and crockpots are to be behind closed doors.
Sinks are not an appliance. But they are a necessary feature of the kitchen. Let’s look at a design to make them less intrusive.
Sinks
Simple, no food catching gaps.
