5 Secrets to Make a Cheap Kitchen Look Expensive

The most expensive part of a renovation is, of course, the kitchen. No budget or desire to pay a high price for it?

You can make it so that investing moderate sums will make the result look much more expensive. There are several things our subconscious notices as "this is expensive," but in reality, it's not true. Oльga Bedina and Ksenia Izmailova in their blog explained how to achieve this effect.

One countertop

The simplest modular kitchen will look much better and more expensive with it. Especially if you choose an interesting color or texture, not the standard finish. It's easy to find a variant — the choice is huge. Nobody will pay attention to the fact that the kitchen base isn't uniform.

Handles

Usually, they come as part of a cheap kitchen and don't have high quality. Get rid of them, take them to the countryside! Replace them with something that is, at least, visually more expensive — not for 100, but for 500 rubles. This is a smart investment: spending an additional 2–4 thousand rubles visually extends your kitchen. Just make sure that the holes for handles are already drilled, measure the distance between them to avoid size errors.

Backsplash above the worktop

If you're making it from tiles, lay them after the countertop is installed. This gives a completely different level of tidiness and in such cases, you can do without ugly plastic skirting boards along the wall.

Successful color matching

Try to harmoniously match the cabinet colors by tone, not assemble modules according to the principle of "a person gets used to everything." Everything here will depend on your taste and preferences.

Overall dimensions

If you can't fit the modules perfectly from wall to wall — or don't do it at all, leaving a good gap where you can place a flower or vase, or find a good assembler who will build your desired layout from existing elements — make inserts, shelves.