The kitchen is one of the busiest areas in most homes because it’s where all the cooking happens. And since this area is almost always used up, it needs more touch ups than other areas in the house. Now, decorating your kitchen isn’t done at an instant, especially if you haven’t fully decided on what results you want to achieve. It all depends on how much change you want to see in your kitchen. Nevertheless, this doesn’t rid the kitchen of the many ways it can be decorated to improve its aesthetics. And out of those many ways, we’ve rounded down some of them that can help you start decorating your kitchen.

1. Create a Focal Point

Every room or area in the house has a focal point. This focal point serves as the eye-catching element in the room that drives attraction and helps make an impression to anyone who comes in. As you prepare to decorate your kitchen, you can start by walking into it and asking yourself: what’s lacking with the look and how would you still want to improve its aesthetics? Since the focal point needs to stand out, go for an element that’s rather different from the usual ones you place in your kitchen. Be bold in your choices but at the same time, make sure that it mixes well with other elements such as furniture items. 

Creating a focal point can start with hanging a large piece of artwork on the wall or decorative items such as wall baskets, mirrors, framed fabrics and more. This helps add life to the room, especially if you mostly have blank kitchen walls. You can also create an accent wall and paint it with bold, bright colors or place a textured wallpaper.

2. Change the Wall Color

A change of wall color can affect how you see any room in your house. It can create a positive and warm vibe, especially when you’ve had a monotonous color scheme for years. Changing the wall color of your kitchen is also a budget-friendly way to start decorating your kitchen. In fact, it’s the most inexpensive one. 

Remember that you can’t just randomly pick a color for your kitchen since you’ll need to take into account its overall color scheme. Take a step back and look at how each element such as the cabinets and appliances blend once the wall is changed to a certain color. If your kitchen doesn’t get that much natural light, it’s better to stick with light colors so the room doesn’t appear too dark or gloomy. But if you have large windows that allow more than enough natural light into the kitchen, then you have more liberty to go for darker shades. 

3. Consider Open Shelving

If you don’t have much space in your kitchen cabinet, you may want to consider open shelves as extra storage for your kitchen essentials. These open shelves are great for aesthetics. But you must be keen on keeping it organized and as much as possible clutter-free since everything you’re going to place there will be exposed. Floating shelves are an excellent way to save floor space, and at the same time, it gives a little statement to your kitchen wall.

4. Choose the Right Lighting Fixtures

In choosing the right lighting fixtures for your kitchen, you first need to identify the areas that need the most attention. Next is, identifying what kind of lighting you’ll need for those specific areas. For best lighting results in your kitchen, here’s a short guide to the different kinds of kitchen lights:

• Ambient Lighting – Creates a warm and conducive atmosphere in the kitchen. This is suitable for kitchen spaces that lack natural lighting. 
• Task Lighting – Serves as an added lighting for designated areas in the kitchen such as under-cabinet areas. If you have ambient lighting in your kitchen, it’s ideal to pair it with task lighting because the former tends to cast a shadow in front of the counter and other locations in the kitchen, and the latter keeps it balanced. 
• Accent Lighting – Suitable for added aesthetics in the kitchen. Accent lighting in the kitchen is used to create a seamless highlight on key elements in the room. 

We hope that this article has helped in getting you started in decorating your kitchen.

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