What Makes a Kitchen Look Cheap: Analyzing Obvious Mistakes and Avoiding Them

How not to make a mistake during renovation and create a truly decent interior even with your own hands? This task becomes increasingly complex every day. The abundance of styles, trends, and product ranges in stores and online platforms scatter the gaze of an inexperienced person. Today we will review five important signs that cheapen your kitchen. Don't repeat them!

1. Kitchen Corner

Those days have long passed when a kitchen corner was considered a luxurious interior element. Today such a solution reveals only bad taste of the housewife. Replace it with modern tables, chairs or dining sets.

2. Curtains with Valances

Heavy curtains with many folds, like in the theater, should be replaced with more modern options. For example, a Roman blind or blinds. This way the room will look more spacious and visually lighter.

3. Apron with Bright Photo Print

Prints of fruits, flowers or a night city under glass on an apron were popular about 5-10 years ago. Today this element ruins even the most expensive kitchen. If you choose an apron made of glass, you can make a monochrome coating, print mimicking stone or brick, or neutral geometric patterns.

4. Cabinet on Legs

Besides the fact that a cabinet on legs leads to irrational use of space, it also gives your kitchen a cheap appearance. Quickly fixing this situation can be achieved with boxes in the same color as the cabinet doors, which will hide the legs. Perfect for storage if they are on wheels.

Choose a kitchen with a baseboard so you won't have to reach under the cabinet to clean accumulated dirt.

5. Cords and Extension Cords

Miscalculating the required number of outlets or placing them incorrectly leads to extra noise from extension cords and cables on the kitchen. If the renovation is already completed and there aren't enough network connection points, then cable channels can be a solution.

Photo on cover: Violetta Cherevashko Design