New kitchen design ideas and trends come up every year in the kitchen industry. Learn about the 2022 kitchen design trends and how to add them to your home for your next renovation.
Design with the 2022 Pantone Color of the Year
Pantone’s color of the year continues to drive design trends, just as announced. This year’s color is classic blue. Classic blue stands for “reliable and stable foundation,” which you need in your home.
One popular way to add color to your kitchen is through your cabinets. Classic blue is a neutral color in the kitchen and can easily be paired with light and dark color schemes. Designing blue kitchen cabinets is a growing design trend and shows the industry’s longevity. You can favor darker shades of blue for a more subtle look or brighten up the blue for a refreshing pop of color.
If you can’t use blue kitchen cabinets, you can always use the 2022 Colorcom Color of the Year in your kitchen textiles, backsplash or dinnerware.
Matte Black Design
Take your kitchen from classic or transition it to modern by changing the hardware and accents. Simply replace faucets, handles and pulls with matte black!
Many popular kitchen faucet brands offer faucet styles in matte black finishes to meet the demand for modernity. You can rest assured for the finish for it will never come off! Matte black finishes are well suited for the average home kitchen.
Add dimension to your kitchen with multi-tone hardware and cabinets. Matte black is just one of the finishes available for faucets and hardware, but many options are on the market. For example, Rohl’s House has 11 different finishes, including satin English gold, Tuscan brass and rose gold.
Many top kitchen and bathroom brands for hardware, such as pulls and handles, come with finishes to match faucets and sinks. But if you want to add even more interest, you can certainly get creative. Visit an antique store for more sophisticated designs. Or, you can mix and match finishes and hardware shapes to create extra shine and personality in your kitchen.
If you want to make a louder statement with a multi-tone kitchen, change the color of the upper and lower cabinets. Choosing a darker color on the lower cabinets and a lighter color on the upper cabinets will encourage the eye to move up and down the kitchen space.
Designing an environmentally friendly and sustainable kitchen
If the discussion about environmental and design sustainability has made you rethink kitchen design, now is a good time to design your kitchen to achieve these goals consciously.
One common practice is to purchase appliances that have an Energy Star rating. These appliances help reduce energy consumption and operating costs, both for the environment and to save your hard-earned money.
One of the less explored methods for environmentally friendly and sustainably designed kitchens is the installation of garburators. Garburators are becoming increasingly popular because they offer a great way to dispose of waste and food waste. It effectively reduces the amount of garbage and food going into landfills or the odors generated in the weekly compost bin. Garburators are easy to install, and in most cases, they are located under the sink.
Look for Garburators from brands like InSinkErator to learn about the latest food waste technology.
When you’re considering a sink, this is also an excellent time to consider a contactless faucet. The water is only activated with contactless faucets when you need it. This reduces the amount of water wasted between turning on the faucet, soaping the dishes, etc.
Some other ways to be greener in the kitchen include
- Refurbishing existing cabinets to reduce construction waste
- Choose an eco-friendly surface such as quartz for your countertops. The amount of resources used to make quartz countertops is significantly less than other types
- Choose energy-efficient lighting. These lights require less energy to operate and still produce the same effect as older lights
Design with functionality and purpose
The concept of opening layouts has been a popular design trend for the past few years, but the idea of a functional kitchen continues to drive kitchen design trends. When ready to renovate your kitchen, first think about your usual kitchen habits.
Do you imagine yourself entertaining a group of friends or family in the kitchen? Do you see your kids running around in the morning chaos? Maybe you need a kitchen island with an overhang to double as a breakfast bar. Perhaps you’ll want to include innovative home technology and touch faucets. Or maybe you’ll add a pot filler above the stove to make it easier to use water for cooking.
When you know how your kitchen works, you can design it to suit your needs.
