Fashionable Kitchen Design

A kitchen, especially fashionable, is a source of pride for the housewife. Latest trends in kitchen design correspond to women's dreams.

Modern kitchen interiors - kitchen studios, free loft zones decorated with graffiti and posters, kitchens with invisible built-in appliances, ethnic styles - are designed for hosting guests. At the same time, the choice of new projects is diverse, and the style of fashionable kitchen 2017 should emphasize the lifestyle of its owners.

Let's examine what furniture items, types of finishes, and colors will remain in trend for a long time, possibly becoming the most comfortable and beloved by you. Kitchen interior designs

Fashion welcomes ergonomic and non-standard kitchen decoration and plenty of space. An example of this is the trendy minimalism.

This style allows using only modern built-in appliances, only necessary furniture, and no more than 2-3 colors. However, strictly following its rules, it's easy to create a convenient workspace and a luxurious dining area. The absence of color variety and patterns emphasizes the taste and self-sufficiency of owners of such interiors.

Design: Sergey Sarugin

A very similar design option is hi-tech, or techno-style of modern space.

It also approves practical use of space, functional unobtrusive appliances in interiors, and welcomes only new, easy-to-maintain materials and fresh solutions.

Techno is associated with silver-metallic shades and plastic. But the style changes, as do innovations, adapting to living spaces. The most fashionable technologically advanced kitchens of 2017 have these features:

• convenient minimalism
  
• natural colors and textures
  
• glass items that make the interior more open
• combination of glossy and matte surfaces.

Hi-Tech Style in Apartment Interior

Another fashionable kitchen design, timeless like classic style - industrial or loft style. This style approves rough concrete finishes and decorative brick on walls, illusion of non-residential space.

A spacious kitchen with large windows is perfect for implementing the industrial idea. That is to create an atmosphere for friendly gatherings - creative and youthful. In designer 'industrial' kitchen studios of 2016-2017, the following harmonize well:

• photographs and posters
  
• light fixtures like lanterns in the living area
• aged wooden furniture
• everything that reminds about first student dreams (!).
  

Design: Sofya Petrukhina

At the same time, in fashion is rural kitchen style - cottage, Provence, northern cottage (Scandinavian). The most attractive in these styles is natural materials and ecological comfort in the setting - what city dwellers need to relieve stress after work over dinner.

Cottage style allows bright handmade accessories on a light background, simple open shelves.

Most designers use as a basis harmonious combinations of Scandinavian or French cottage: kitchen finishing is done in white tones, accents - brown, lavender, green. Decoration resembles European countryside cottage with flowers on windows and texture of expensive wood, without excess.

Unchanging trend: combining kitchen with living room

In 2017, fashion especially approves expanding the kitchen space, free layout - a trend that originated in the 90s.

Design: Mobler service

In this case, both the kitchen zone interior and the adjacent room should follow the rules of one style. At the same time, open space, a large area for hosting guests - is most likely what cottage or loft lovers want to create. In minimalism, the main value is an abundance of free space.

Most recent ideas for kitchen zone finishing

Youthful loft and new interpretations of cottage style provide ready solutions to improve and make the workspace and living room more convenient. In a fashionable housewife's kitchen, wall writings, wood, and precious materials in finishing are allowed.

Let's highlight several of the most interesting trends for kitchen-living room.

Let's highlight several of the most interesting trends for kitchen-living room.

• Relief tile "wood-like". Wooden finishing makes the interior more expensive and cozy. In modern kitchens in cottage or loft style, textures of wood slices, aged wood, and in the work zone - tile that imitates oak or alder are very popular.
  
• Stone texture. Natural stone, like wood, complements the eco-friendly cottage style, makes the living room cozier, long-lasting and looks magnificent. At international exhibitions (for example, at the Design and Construction Week in Las Vegas), examples of fireplace decoration and kitchen wall stone finishing were shown.
  

Design: Elena Bulagina, chief architect of bureau 'Kapitel'

• Chalkboard surface. Graffiti and quotes in interiors remain in fashion, as well as loft. If one of the walls in a light kitchen is decorated with chalkboard black paint for notes - the space visually expands. Chalkboard surface helps to decorate the dining area with motivating quotes for guests. In the dining area, a chalkboard can be used to record recipes.
  
• Monochromatic tile with 3D effect in minimalist kitchens, expensive and restrained.
  
• Combination of black or white color with gold. This is another trend from the American Design Week. Gold plating on kitchen appliance hardware or in stained glass highlights the elegance of black color. In a kitchen with light background and good lighting, golden shimmer shows wealth and refined taste.
  

Design: Designer-Architect Maria Vlasova, Life Art Studio

• Open storage systems. Shelves in modern cottage kitchens can be glazed or completely open, making the kitchen look more spacious. Beautiful dishes become part of the decor.
  

Designer apron for kitchen zone

Aprons in fashionable and stylish kitchens are usually easy to maintain and original. The most durable materials - metal, tile, and glass - are used as a basis for expressing fresh ideas.

The most interesting examples from designers:

• Chalkboard surface with photo print
  
• Monochromatic glass tile
  
• Honeycomb or ceramic mosaic
  
• 3D patterns
  
• Artificial gray stone
  
• Dark chalk or brick wall in a loft studio
  
• Patchwork design for cottage-style kitchen
  

Apron print can be combined with cabinet doors and countertops, living room zone decoration, or stand out as an accent in the interior.

Choosing furniture for fashionable kitchen

Kitchen furniture sets should be functional, preserve free space, and emphasize the chosen style.

Several fashionable options are available for choice.

• Modular kitchens. Furniture blocks of such sets can be arranged in any order provided in the fashionable project.
  
• Curved furniture with rounded edges - an interesting trend that will make a small kitchen zone more convenient.
  
• Transformers kitchens with pull-out drawers, fold-down table, and niches for kitchen appliances.
  
• Transparent furniture. With an office set made of acrylic, a kitchen studio will look spacious.
  
• At the same time, in trend are old cabinets with open shelves and woven baskets for groceries. A fashionable novelty in 2017 kitchen design was old kitchens (!). Updated wooden furniture from the countryside underlines the uniqueness of Provence or Scandinavian style.
  

Retro kitchen design Fashionable colors and lighting

In the color scheme of fashionable kitchens, some trending tones and combination rules are highlighted. Usually, white or white-black tandem is taken as a basis, red and similar tones, in expensive interiors - chrome or gold shades.

Design: Alexey Ivanov

In 2017 kitchen interiors, there are the following common principles for using and combining colors:

1. In a small kitchen, white or light cream color should dominate.
   
2. Deep black can be used to make the interior more aristocratic. Interesting design options - chessboard from black-and-white tile on the floor or black graffiti on a white wall.
   
3. The most fashionable red shade in 2017 - Aurora Red - rich and fiery, consisting of several tones - can be used alone in minimalist style. On glossy surfaces, aurora color looks very bright and fits a youthful interior.
   
4. Another self-sufficient fashionable tone - rich orange, the color of ripe pumpkin - perfectly combines with chrome accents, stone, and wood pattern.
   
5. Dynamically combined white, black, and red accents, black with red are allowed in minimalism.
   
6. More delicate color combinations copied from nature - beige with chocolate, white with blue or lavender. Such combinations are the basis of French and Scandinavian cottage.
   
7. Countryside-style furniture with pronounced wood texture can be painted in a natural shade - olive, sandy, white, or dark brown, contrasting with wall color. Also used are stained glass and woven inserts.
   

• Light as part of the style
  

Color transitions and various types of lighting should emphasize zones in a large kitchen-studio. Lamps and chandeliers become design elements and can be chosen to match the furniture color.

For any modern kitchen zone interior, recessed spotlights will suit. In designer living rooms above the table, pendant lights are mounted, chosen to match the room style.

Window decoration

The most popular trend in modern kitchen window decor is using blinds, solid-color and textured, and roller shades.

Design: Elena Chabrova and Olga Chebysheva, ChDecoration

Alongside this, in fashionable interiors, short curtains in a checkered pattern, stripes, and floral prints - patterns - are often used to express the ethnic characteristics of cottage style. Standard horizontal blinds can elegantly combine with light curtains.

Choosing ideas for modern kitchen from designers

To decorate the dining area in an unusual yet convenient and tasteful way, you can take fashionable trends in kitchen design in different stylish combinations as a basis, for example:

• Use brick background and chalkboard wall and make open shelves and bar lighting.
  
• Highlight the work zone with minimalist cabinet furniture, and the living room - with a properly shaped kitchen island.
  
• For kitchen furniture in hi-tech style, with metallic shimmer, brass, and gold plating, glass dining sets will suit.
  
• A room with light walls can be decorated with furniture made of dark oak or another solid wood. If choosing Russian cottage - add red and orange accents. In Provence, there should be softer additional tones - lavender, violet, green, or blue.
  
• Old wooden furniture of another era will look harmonious in a kitchen with bright posters, lantern-style lights.
  

On the cover: design project ARTUR BUREAU.