Is your kitchen looking dated, but a full renovation isn’t exactly in the budget? It is possible to shake things up a bit in your kitchen without breaking the bank.
Here are 5 ideas for a quick kitchen update:
Change the Lighting
A great way to update the look of your kitchen is to swap out the lighting. Be adventurous with your lighting choices, like the fun pendant lighting in the kitchen below. The pendants look like the type of lighting you would typically see in an entryway, but they look right at home over the kitchen island.
Change Your Barstools
Changing out your bar stools will bring a breath of fresh air into your kitchen. There are many stand-out styles of bar stools out there and you can choose to keep to the original design of the kitchen or mix it up and choose a stool that is a bit more unexpected, like a modern wire bar stool in a more traditional style kitchen.
Add a Rug or a Runner
Bring color and texture into your kitchen with either a colorful or neutral area rug (depending on your style) or a narrow runner style. Kitchens are so full of hard edges and surfaces that the addition of a little softness is a nice change.
Paint the Cabinets
A little paint goes a long way when it comes to changing the look of your kitchen. It’s becoming very popular to have the upper cabinets a different color or finish than the lower cabinets and it brings a nice bit of contrast to the design.
If you’re feeling bold, go all out with a bright color on both the upper and lower cabinets like this kitchen with bright coral cabinets and contrasting molding.
Take Off the Cabinet Doors
Open shelving in kitchens has steadily been gaining popularity over the last few years. Rather than tearing out your current built-in cabinets to achieve this look, try taking the doors off instead. A little trim applied to the front of the cabinets will cover up the holes left by the hinges and you’re good to go.
In this kitchen, the backs and insides of the cabinet were painted a brilliant teal color to provide some contrast in an all-white kitchen.
Have you recently given your kitchen a little facelift? How did you do it? Did you use any of the kitchen update tricks mentioned above? Give me the scoop in a comment below.
Image sources: Photos 1-4, Domino ; Apartment Therapy; Domino; Coastal Living