8 Ways To Give Your Kitchen A Cosier Feel
The kitchen should be the hub of the home. However, if it isn’t done right, it could be cold, uninviting, and empty. Whether you have a thing for stainless steel appliances or you just love white wooden cabinets, we have advice here that will help to give your kitchen a much cosier feel. Read on for 8 ways to enjoy a cosier kitchen and make yours the true hub of the house!
Add A Soft And Fluffy Rug
Don’t leave your kitchen tiles bare – this will leave your kitchen feeling cold and looking uninviting. Different kinds of texture are essential if you’re going to make your kitchen look warm and cosy. A soft and fluffy rug is usually the easiest way to do this – but do it away from the food preparations, or you might end up with a smelly, stained rug that hinders your home rather than helps it.
Use Warm Materials
Warm materials will balance out the materials that feel colder. Tile and stone, for example can give a cooler effect, while wood and leather can help to warm up the colder textiles for a cosier finish. Using a mixture of different textiles will make your kitchen look cosier and more interesting, and you’ll give it a balanced finish. Having a completely cold, shiny kitchen won’t do anything for the cosy factor of your house.
Get Colorful With Your Cabinets
How about having a little fun with your cabinets and painting them a bright color? There’s yellow, red, and deep green if you need a little inspiration, but it all depends on the mood of your kitchen and what you’re looking to achieve. Yellow can give off happy, bright vibes, while deep green can give a more natural feel. It’s all down to your personal tastes and what you would like to achieve in your own kitchen.
Bring In Items You Wouldn’t Usually Find In The Kitchen
There are items that you’ll usually find in other areas of the home in abundance, but not in the kitchen. Things like books, plants, and art should not be neglected in the kitchen just because you don’t usually find them there. Try to add these items to the kitchen and see how much cosier it makes the room feel.
Get The Lighting Right
Bright white lighting can make your kitchen seem sterile, and this doesn’t make it feel cosy at all. You’ll still need task lighting for when you’re preparing food, but you should go for lighting that you can control, or lighting with a warmer tone. There are many different kinds of lighting, so make sure you consider what fits in with your lifestyle best. Look at the environmentally friendly factor of the bulb, as well as the tone, how long it lasts, the brightness, and more.
Have A Soft Space To Sit Down
Provide a cosy place to sit in the kitchen – cold and hard chairs might seem practical, but they don’t exactly make the kitchen seem like a warm space to spend time, do they? Instead, choose chairs with cushioning, or add your own cushions to each chair to make sure your guests can get as comfortable as possible. You might also want to measure a table so that you can have a suitable, high quality table cloth that will bring further texture to the kitchen and make it appear warmer.
Feel Free To Mix And Match
Mixing and matching your chairs and furniture can still look great in the kitchen – in fact, it can give a quirkier look. You don’t need to buy sets of matching furniture if it’s not your style. Sometimes, mixed up pieces can actually look much better.
Reduce Your Clutter
The kitchen tends to be one of the most cluttered places in the room. As we spend a lot of time here, many of the kitchen surfaces become dumping grounds. Instead, tidy up your surfaces and put things there that will make you want to avoid cluttering – like flowers. Having a bunch of flowers on your surfaces can help give you an incentive to keep them tidy. If you know this will be hard for you at first, allow yourself one surface you’re allowed to put things down on. Eventually, you can ban all surface clutter and make sure you have a proper process for dealing with it.
Are you ready to use the advice here to give your kitchen a cosier feel? Leave your own thoughts and advice below!
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