Learn more about the latest kitchen trends to take us into 2023

Cottagecore the boho kitchen design:

There is something unique about the warmth and inviting charm of traditional kitchens. As we enter 2023, the demand for a more combined modern and stylish kitchen with natural and rustic features has never been so prevalent. Ask many kitchen designers, and they will agree; since 2021, the aptly named cottagecore has been a relatively new kitchen design with no textbook rules but more relying on individualism and creative flair to achieve that complete kitchen aesthetic. The overall, traditional kitchen is generally dominated by cabinets and worktops; opting for a shaker kitchen is an excellent starting point. Shaker-style cabinetry delivers timeless but natural textures; it blends with many other designs, including rustic and contemporary fitted kitchens. It also combines beautifully with the simple yet effective craftsmanship that allows earthy and seductive pastel colour pallets to bring it to all life. Popular choices for cottagecore kitchen colour trends are sage greens, which offer warmth but also vibrancy, along with other hues, such as blues and creams. However, it doesn't mean you always have to follow suit; it is all down to the individual taste.

Cottagecore enables you to place your own personality into your new kitchen design

For example, adding a splash of pale pink to the cabinets of your sage green kitchens will achieve a unique but on-trend dimension to your cottagecore interior. Aside from your kitchen granite worktops, cabinetry and flooring, furnishings, and accessories are also an integral part of the cottagecores' ambience. Reclaimed wooden tables, chairs and dressers will complement whimsically patterned fabrics, such as curtains and tablecloths. To finish off, a deep traditional porcelain sink with wooden racks of vintage crockery, tea sets, and other kitchen-themed antiques will ensure your cottagecore built-in kitchen is complete and ready to share with friends and family.

Soft kitchen shapes

Regarding the latest kitchen design and colour trends for 2023, there is a wide-ranging collection to explore, be inspired by, and reimagine. Kitchen accessories are essential in any style's design delivery and aesthetics, and features such as lighting are impactful enough to transform, stimulate, and relax an entire kitchen environment. For a softer and smoother new kitchen design, you can delve into a world of subtle but effective nuances, such as rounded corners to items like kitchen dining tables and central islands. Choosing curved and smoother features helps create an inviting and balanced design, no matter what style, contemporary, timeless classic or more traditional. These popular and widely-sought-after softer shapes are ideal for busy households where families and friends can socialise and entertain in style. Not only do softer and more delicate furnishings, like cabinetry and worktops, deliver a smoother tone, but they also deliver a more luxurious and superior finish, especially with rounded and curved cabinets and handles that offer a unique and elegant physical experience to the touch

Lighting and accessories play a large part in kitchen design

A soft curved kitchen island provides the ultimate feature for socialising; as a result, guests can comfortably sit and navigate around the island quickly, which encourages a smooth transition due to the ergonomic design between spaces and other people. Investing in a softer style and curved kitchen also allows you to make a bold statement; here, you can unleash your personality, characteristics and creative flair by displaying and featuring artwork and accessories that tell a story but which will also enhance perceptions. It could be making a statement, such as with a kitchen with granite worktops entwined with natural wooden built-in features completed with low-hanging kitchen lighting. The possibilities are endless, and it all comes down to personal preference, the ambience you wish to create and, most importantly, a kitchen space that defines who you are and your lifestyle.

The invisible lines kitchens

Contemporary kitchen designs have been popular for some time, continually sought after for their minimalist, clutter-free, and innovative hi-tech appeal - to meet the demands and pace of modern living. The invisible lines kitchen designs take the contemporary style to a new level. The features of the handleless kitchen play a pivotal role in the invisible kitchen design. Recessed or push touch opening mechanisms offer streamlined and seamless cabinetry that looks aesthetically stunning, especially in a matt finish which also helps limit fingerprint visibility. Storage is imperative to any kitchen, but more so in an invisible lines style design, as generally items are stored entirely out of sight, meaning a larger space or pantry style storage is considered a crucial feature.

Why not think about a kitchen pantry?

Pantry storage can be hidden and integrated out of sight, ideal for busy family traffic, with high-volume storage and walk-in accessibility. The invisible lines kitchen is about innovation and how the modern style kitchen has evolved further, with ultra-contemporary cabinets and kitchen sink units concealed behind sliding seamless worktops and handless cabinetry, delivering more multifunctional space depending on your desired activity. Just like the modern fitted kitchen units offer a large storage solution to ensure your appliances and clutter-free, the invisible lines' ideology is to remove everything from sight. This ultra-minimalist approach provides a clean, pure and appliance-free kitchen space that will deliver character, artistic flair and personality in abundance. Streamlined aesthetics are what make the invisible kitchen style stand out, and cabinetry is usually the dominant force behind what makes a kitchen so appealing. Choosing handleless such as the j-style cabinet and drawer handle will ensure your invisible lines kitchen design is forever streamlined and seamless and makes the bold statement you wish to convey.

Statement kitchen backsplashes

Kitchen backsplashes protect your kitchen walls from food splashes, spillages, hot oil and steam. Due to their visibility and central focus potential, they are more than just a practical add-on in today's modern kitchen. They are a price of art and offer a blank canvas to explore colour, design, shapes and materials to suit your personality and kitchen theme. Ask any designers or kitchen planners, and they will agree that a wealth of exciting backsplashes is available from the widely sought-after subway tiles, mosaic style, and geometric honeycomb designs, to name just a few! Another popular backsplash type that moves from the conventional technique is the ceiling height option. The ceiling height style is a great way to protect a much larger wall surface area whilst showcasing a central and focal wall. Here you can explore and play around with various ceramic tiles, metal or glass materials. This generous space opens up endless possibilities to create a piece of art that symbolises you and the entire family, which will arguably make an impactful statement for when you entertain and socialise with friends.

An eye catching kitchen splashback brings your kitchen design together

The overall visual aesthetics of the backsplash can transform any kitchen space into a playground of colour. There are no restrictions on what you can achieve, whether it's a modern or traditional classic kitchen theme. For a contemporary design, the backsplash may be the only wall of colour, an opportunity to be creative and show your artistic balance and eye for attention in contrast to the larger-scale minimalist surroundings. However, you could opt for a traditional brick or tiled backsplash for a more farmhouse and rustic feel kitchen design. There is a large array of tiles, colours, shapes, designs and even materials for consideration to ensure you balance the ambience carefully to work in unison with your worktops, cabinetry, furnishings and appliances.

Black kitchens colours for intense design

Black kitchens offer a bold and impactful industrial modern style reminiscent of a bygone factory era. Black is very on-trend and widely sought after in today's contemporary kitchen design, with its multilayered tones and hues from deep charcoals, greys, and, of course, the intense but solid and unadulterated black itself. The industrial kitchen style has grown in popularity and has adapted and evolved to meet the demands of everyday life and open plan kitchen living. The classic Shaker-style design is a perfect example of how stunning simplicity can deliver a range of trends and styles that meet most modern-day requirements, such as the pared back natural aesthetics. Shaker has a unique and appealing quality, possessing timeless characteristics that will continue to accentuate and morph into any kitchen design. When finished in solid black, they deliver the dynamic look but with charm and integrity in the true Shaker kitchen style. If you want to add that extra unique contemporary twist, opting for a matt black finish is the ideal way to bring a modern-day perspective to an industrial theme. Added accents of brass and copper nuances for items such as taps, sinks and handles, for example, will help balance the darker tones with inviting warmth. Subtle enough not to detract from the intense, black industrial modern look you so wish to display.

Monochrome kitchen designs

The monochrome style is another attractive choice of colour scheme, keeping things simple yet still making a statement. The appealing two-tone effect works brilliantly in any new kitchen but comes into its own in a more minimal setting. The stark contrast of black and white is unmistakably attention-grabbing, especially when you opt for a central focus point such as a kitchen island. This an excellent opportunity to explore with minimalist but powerful tones, creating a kitchen and living space that reflects one's personality, character and creative flair.

Sage green kitchens with vanilla accents

Sage green is widely sought after and continually in demand modern colour for any room in the home, and perfect for the kitchen. Sage green works harmoniously with anything from a modern traditional kitchen to a more modern layout, with options like sage green kitchen cabinets, walls or even accessories. Working with professional kitchen planners, you can mix and match different colours and textures, enabling you to create your dream sage green design. Sage greens are exceptionally versatile colours as they are bold enough to make a statement but subtle enough to be combined with other vanilla hues and tones such as creams, beiges and pretty much any different colour. There are no textbook rules; it's all about personal taste. The expansive colour palette of sage greens means there are no boundaries to what kitchen style this appealing shade may compliment, from a rustic traditional theme to the ultra-contemporary and invisible kitchen style.

Shaker kitchen designs are in harmony with green tones

Shaker built-in cupboards are a popular choice in a traditional classic kitchen design. The earthy shades of walnut flooring and cream walls work harmoniously to deliver a warm and inviting space. If it's more of a modern kitchen theme you are leaning towards, then use sage green alongside grey and off-white muted hues. Sage green on the worktops and the walls can enhance and open up a living/kitchen area and accentuate the contemporary feel.

Also, opting for darker flooring in a matt finish will enrich the overall tones and ambience, and handleless cabinets in off-white or a light grey will subtly brighten up and infuse the colours and textures together. Consider integrating a navy focal point or centrepiece using accessories or a stylish kitchen island to elevate your modern sage green contrast kitchen.

Modern art deco kitchen design

Creating an impactful modern kitchen design with geometric shapes and elaborate accessories will enhance your art deco style and deliver a stunning and undeniably on-trend contemporary twist.

Art deco became popular in the 1920s, 30s and 40s and is still a widely sought-after vintage style design used today, often combined with many other contemporary features and colour pallets. The art deco look has many alluring attributes and unique facets that make it the most visually and thought-provoking of all kitchen styles. Aside from the bold colours and angular geometric shapes, accessories and appliances also play a crucial role in bringing a sense of sophisticated glamour; features such as mirrored cabinet handles and lighting draw from the art nouveau influence of the Hollywood era. Art deco is all about making a statement, and investing in prominent and visible accessories, appliances, and furnishing such as chandeliers will help craft the modern-day art deco look. When it comes to colour, art eco demands bright and attention-grabbing solid and definitive shades. Think mustard yellow, teal, lavender, and the popular monochrome effect, with black and white being the most favoured: these stark patterned and geometric-shaped tiles and other bold and prominent focal pieces, such as central islands, also add a unique dimension. Also, storage space to keep your bulky appliances and worktops clutter-free are essential in ensuring your art deco kitchen design is on point without causing a distraction from unnecessary kitchen items being on display. A monochrome kitchen design requires little or no clutter on the worktops or surfaces, as too much will interfere with the modern art deco style you wish to convey, especially when entertaining and socialising with friends. Art deco offers boundless possibilities in exploring colour and design and breaking the boundaries of what a conventional kitchen might be. Just like art has no limits, then art deco kitchens follow that example; it's all about experimentation and displaying your personality, charisma and willingness not to conform!

Earthy kitchen design with wellbeing in mind

The modern-day kitchen is essential in bringing family and friends together and being a multilayered space for work, rest and play. In a relatively short period, broken-plan living has become an integral part of the kitchen's evolution, adapting to our changing habits and modern-day demands. Juggling work from home, cooking, socialising and a space for well-being where people can congregate and be present is a must-have with any busy modern-day household. No matter what style or theme of kitchen you opt for, the layout and design for a broken living/kitchen layout are at the core of all trending kitchen designs and are continually evolving to meet new demands and requirements of our modern world. Due to the time spent in today's kitchens, there is even more focus on how best this zone will function for everyone in the home. An excellent way to improve the ambience is by adding more natural light sources, intelligent lighting, ample storage and space to declutter efficiently and effectively, opting for calming, earthy and natural colours to encourage relaxation but also to energise. Tones of earthy greens, creams and dusky greys are all popular choices to create a calming atmosphere, whereas coastal bright and alluring blue colours will revitalise and invigorate. The modern-day kitchen also benefits from the energy-efficient innovation with standard, tech-friendly charging points and additional sockets for smart speakers, phones, and tablets for work and entertainment.

Sustainable kitchen materials

Sustainable and eco-friendly products are becoming more sought after across all our material items, whether technology, transport, clothing, and kitchens are no exception. In any modern kitchen showroom, you will expect to find an array of sustainable kitchen cabinetry, worktops and furnishings. Natural wood, stone and ceramics are all excellent materials that offer unrivalled quality and longevity, are crafted from fully sustainable materials, are traceable, and, if made locally, will possess a low or even zero carbon footprint. Shelving is another feature that not only plays a vital role in the storage and assisting in decluttering but, if made with natural wood, is also sustainable. Open shelving is also a great way to separate your kitchen/living areas while retaining the open plan living feel whereby everyone is present but separate doing their tasks, whether work, rest, or play! Also, the great thing about open shelving is that it has many uses, including the perfect way to bring the outdoors in by introducing house plants from the garden, which will add that extra natural feel and overall relaxing atmosphere for all to enjoy!

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