How to Create a Timeless Kitchen

Timeless Kitchen

Designing a kitchen is always a challenge – it’s expensive, there’s endless options and after all the effort, you want to make sure the design stands the test of time. We’ve compiled 6 different tips to help your kitchen design stay timeless years after you’ve remodeled. 

1. Stay Consistent with the Style of Your Home

One of the best ways to create a timeless kitchen is to stay consistent with the original style of your home.  Choose elements from the era of your home that have stood the test of time. This will help your kitchen remodel to feel cohesive and honor the architecture of the home. 

 

If you have a mid century home, consider adding in warm wood tones and keeping your cabinet fronts less decorative and more simple & clean. 

 

Spanish style homes could benefit from a hand painted Spanish tile backsplash or a terra cotta tile floor. 

 

Look into the year your home was built and the style of the time, and see if there are elements of that style that can be pulled into your kitchen design. 

2. Choose a Classic Cabinet Color

White kitchens will always be classic, but don’t discount other colors as well. Cream, taupe, light sage and warm gray are all wonderful options. And don’t forget about a neutral wood tone for cabinetry. There is nothing more timeless than a simple, neutral wood cabinet. 

 

Along with color, style is also something to consider when looking at cabinetry. Currently, simple shaker style doors are very popular. But, shaker doors can also be timeless, especially if they are inset into the cabinet box, instead of overlaid. Consider choosing a cabinet style that isn’t overly ornate; cabinets with a small beveled edge, a thin shaker or even just a completely flat door are all great options. 

3. Add a Simple Backsplash

When thinking about a timeless backsplash, subway tile usually comes to mind. However, incorporating a small variation to a traditional subway tile will go a long way to keeping your kitchen unique yet timeless. Subway tiles traditionally come in 3×6. Mixing it up with a slightly longer or thinner tile will add a little more dimension to your backsplash. 

In the right photo, a thinner tile was used and it was laid in a herringbone pattern. 

The left photo has a zellige or lightly textured tile in the same shape as a traditional subway tile was used to give a more organic look to the classic polished look of a subway tile. 

 

4. Use Natural Wood Tones

Wood tones can be a telling sign of when your original kitchen was put in. The gray-toned woods of the the mid-2000s, the orange toned oak cabinets of the 90s, it’s all burned in our memories. Neutral tones, nothing too warm or too cool, is a very classic look that will last.

5. Pick a Functional Layout

It doesn’t matter how nice your kitchen looks if it doesn’t function for you and they people that live in your home.

Consider how many people usually frequent your kitchen. Maybe your kitchen functions as the hub of the home, with multiple people using it at once, use larger walkways between the island and countertop (4′-4’6″ would be ideal!) and invest in nicer appliances. 

 

If you have one main cook in the home, building out a large kitchen where the cook needs to walk multiple steps to get from the one location to the next might not  be ideal. Perhaps you’re more of the eat-out type family, there’s no need to invest in an expensive range and giant hood. 

Looking for help in redesigning your own kitchen? Reach out to our team and we’ll help build layouts, put together color palettes and source all your products!

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