Kitchen Inspiration

by - April 15, 2017

Hello, and welcome to what I'm sure will be the first in a long line of Pinterest-fuelled interiors posts.

With any luck, Alex and I will be completing on our first owned home in the next couple of weeks, and I'm itching to get started on only part of this whole grown-up getting-a-mortgage thing that doesn't make me slightly terrified - the decorating!

I grew up watching shows like House Doctor and Changing Rooms (side note: I miss Changing Rooms. Can we please bring it back?) with my mum (and dad, although he was a more reluctant audience member), and we moved a few times when I was little, so decorating/planning rooms has been part of my mental make-up for as long as I can remember. Then, at uni, I discovered blogs like Manhattan Nest and Door Sixteen, and became slightly obsessed with the idea of buying a run-down old place and completely revitalising it. Our new house in no way fits that description (even in my most idealistic moments I understand that you need more amounts of money and time than we have at our disposal to take on that sort of project), but it does need a bit of TLC to get it to the aesthetic levels of my dreams.

Prior to our current flat, my decorating muscles had only been flexed as far as my childhood and teenage bedrooms, and in the flat itself we were limited by space and landlord restrictions. Now I'm going to have a whole house to play with, and my decorating muscles are ready to go full The Rock.

And the room I'm most excited to start with? The kitchen. If all goes to plan and our prayers to the conveyancing gods are answered we'll have a month or two between when we get the keys to the new house and when the lease on our flat runs out, and it makes sense to use that time to get as much decorating done as possible while we don't have furniture etc. in our way. The kitchen seems like a no-brainer place to start to me, as memories of five of us eating meals for a month out of a microwave, camping stove and mini-fridge in the conservatory while my parents' new kitchen was fitted tells me that the kitchen is the biggest pain to make any changes to when you also need it to be functional. Of course, we won't be doing anything like as major as refitting, but it will still be nice to get the work out of the way before we start filling cupboards and so on.

So, without further ado, for your viewing pleasure (and, let's be honest, mainly for mine) I give you my top kitchen inspiration ideas, all taken from my kitchen Pinterest board.

Two-tone cabinets
2 tone cabinets?:
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Truly Beautiful Backsplashes: Take Your Kitchen to the Next Level:
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kitchen before & after (via Bloglovin.com ):
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White and Grey Kitchen Cabinets with Gold Hardware.:
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that the quickest, cheapest and easiest way to revamp anything is to paint it a different colour - and that truth is doubly, triply applicable to kitchen cabinets. I imagine painting the doors etc. that are already in the new kitchen will be one of the first things we do. I really like the darker-on-bottom, lighter-on-top look that's all over the Pintersphere at the moment, and one of the main things I want to bring to the kitchen is lots of brightness - as my mum pointed out, in typical mum fashion, the first time I showed her the listing for the house, the kitchen is the only room that doesn't have a direct source of natural light (it's attached to a little sunroom that brings all of that in, so it isn't completely in the dark!).

Open shelving

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Swoon Worthy, open shelving in kitchen with gold accents and hanging mugs:
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diy copper pipe shelf tutorial:
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We asked a professional organizer how to best tackle clutter in every room of the house so you can get organized this year.:
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DIY Copper Open Shelving:19 Easy Ways to Get the Sleek Scandinavian Look Your Home Needs via Brit + Co:
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Trendy AF, but also, practical - as long as you keep the dust off. As I said, we won't be refitting the kitchen any time soon, and though it has easily three times more storage than our current kitchen(ette, really - think oven, sink, four cupboards three drawers and less than a foot of useable prep surface) you never know when you might need more! Plus, what's the point of having cute mugs/crockery etc. if you have to hide it away all the time? I'm particularly loving the wallpaper backing and copper mug rack on the second image down at the moment. Which brings me nicely to...

Gold/copper accents


Decorating with marble, See more Marble inspirations at http://www.brabbu.com/en/inspiration-and-ideas/ #ModernHomeDécor, #MarbleDécorIdeas:
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beach house:
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only keep what you really need:
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Also very 'in' right now I know, but I can't help it - Tamatoa is my spiritual twin; I love shiny things. Gold handles (or 'hardware', as I believe the cool kids call them) make everything look a bit more glam, in my opinion, and will be easy to do with a can of spray paint.

Blue cabinets
Hey there, it’s Ginny here with an intro to a very fun before and after kitchen renovation project for the Lorey family. For those who have read the blog for some time now might be familiar with the Lorey’s – Emily and Orlando worked on several rooms in their house – Family Room, Master bedroom, Office/guest room, Dining Room, Tween Bedroom, and... Read More …:
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A blog about Decorating, fashion, gardens, the beach, gardening, cooking, photography, all influenced by my Italian and Argentine roots.:
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cabinet color for living room walls:
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Despite the fact that blue is apparently an appetite suppressor, you'll notice that it's in quite a few of my inspo images. Colour theory be damned, all of these poppy, not-quite pastel shades look gorgeous with gold and are really fresh - aka exactly what I'm going for.

And finally,

Chalkboard walls

Looking for room inspiration? These are the interiors that blew up Instagram this year. Trust us, they're double-tap–worthy.:
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Gekocht als een bijna-bouwval, omgetoverd tot een vrijstaande bungalow vol joie de vivre: Constance en Dorian realiseerden het huis van hun dromen.:
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Because what's the point of having a house of your very own, that you can do whatever you like with, if you can't draw on the walls? Again, it may be a bit faddy but I like this look. We currently have a pad of paper on our fridge where we do a meal plan for the week and write the shopping list - writing that kind of stuff on a chalkboard wall seems like a much more environmentally sustainable plan, plus it's just plain fun, and gives you the option to change things up every now and again easily.

So, there you have it. My shiny, trendy, chalky kitchen dream board. Watch this space to see what all of these ideas actually turn into once we get in the house, and comment away if you have any tips for a low-budget kitchen makeover, favourite looks for kitchens or general interior inspiration that you want to talk about because if you bring up colour pallets for the corridor to your significant other one more time he or she might start thinking about trying to kill you with paint cards (not that I'm speaking from experience here, or anything...)

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