Make Your Kitchen Reflect Your Personality

How to Make Your Kitchen Reflect Your Style

With the holidays and even colder weather just around the corner, you'll probably be spending more time than ever inside your home.  In fact, the kitchen may become your most used space in the house, especially as we look forward to next week's Thanksgiving celebrations.  As you're working on preparing this year's feast, playing cards with friends at your table, or even just spending time with family around your kitchen island, consider a couple of simple ideas that could make you love your kitchen even more. 

Tiled Backsplash:  Are you looking to create a new focal point in your kitchen?  Adding a backsplash behind your range, or even around your entire kitchen, can add that extra "pop" that brings your style into the room.  You can choose from many assortments of colors and styles that reflect your personal flare and help tie together the decorative ideas of the room.

Kitchen Island:  Are you often wishing that you had more counter space in your current kitchen set-up?  Adding an island can give you just what you need and more!  This extra addition can give you more countertop room, an extra prep sink for preparing meals, more storage for you kitchen gadgets, and even bonus seating!  There are many different ideas that can work with your existing layout.  You can even include your own personal style by choosing a cabinet color that offsets what you currently have. 

Open Shelving:  Opening up shelving spaces in your kitchen can be the perfect way for you to showcase your pottery and dishes, and also add accent colors to the room.  Replacing a few wall cabinets with shelves can open up a small kitchen wall and draw your eye upwards, making the room appear taller.  Also consider replacing just a couple of regular cabinet doors with a glass or frosted glass option too! 

Lighting:  Maybe you already have a kitchen island, but you're looking for a fun way to add more personality to the room?  Try kitchen pendent lights!  With so many options to choose from, you can modernize your kitchen with sleek, small pendent lights, or help to warm up the space by choosing a more substantial fixture.  Lighting can be fun, but you want it to be functional as well... adding in recessed can lights to areas where you need the extra brightness can also help to make your kitchen the favorite room of your home. 

Open Space:  You can also open up an area of a partition wall in your home to help create more flow from your kitchen to another space, such as the dining room.  Often called a "pass-through," this space can give you decorative options by framing it with crown moulding or wide trim, and it can also be functional as well by doubling as a small breakfast nook with stools and a countertop. 

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