What are some neat kitchen themes?

Question

I do not want Roosters, Fat Chefs, or Grapes, but I do want something neat, please help!

Answer 1

This is such a personal thing. The truth is, anything can be a theme for a kitchen, but what makes it YOUR kitchen is that you are into it.

So the answer lies in your hobbies. Sports, music, travel, fine art, animals (a certain animal)...and just like any other room, you could be inspired by any country, any time period, anything. ANYTHING

Since it is a kitchen, maybe you could do a food item and just go all the way.

I don't know many people who don't like chocolate. Maybe you could do your room in candies and chocolate theme. White choc tones on walls (to keep it bright) and then cabinets or counters in a rich hershey color. You could do drawer pulls that look like licorice, you know how twizzlers look like a simple shape that got twisted? Maybe you can find simple hardware in that shape and paint it red, and paint your round knobs to look like peanut butter cups, or assorted chocolates, each with a unique design...looking like they all came out of a heartshaped box. You could also take a logo's colors and use those as your color scheme (milky way has cream, tan, brown, green, red...reese's has brown and orange...3 musketeers has silver, red and blue). Maybe you could put a gum machine somewhere and have it dispense boullion cubes instead of gumballs. I don't know...if you wanted to use this theme, your best bet is to go to a candy shop and look at all the different shapes and colors, and recreate them with similar shaped items.

You could also do a room inspired by citrus, or berries, or melons, or another food family like tomatoes.

Whatever you choose, make sure it is something you enjoy. Jot down your hobbies on paper scraps, pick one and then pick that hobby apart. What colors does it involve? Use them. What equipment can serve as props for the kitchen without being in the way? You can try to use functional items. Like if your hobby is basketball, you can use your fav teams colors. Cut a basketball in half and match it to the size of a bowl, then smear glue on the outside of the bowl, then cover the outside of the bowl with the ball and attach something flat like a wooden plaque base or whatever so the bowl doesn't roll off the counter. Fill the bowl with fruit or something non-food so you don't have to try to keep the bowl clean. You could sew a basketball net shut and suspend it from the ceiling or in the kitchen window to hold a potted plant, or a collection of plastic sacks, or your plastic wraps and foil, sponges, etc. You could paint the cabinet doors to look like a scoreboard. 2 banks of neighboring cabinets (that's 4 doors, next to each other, or split apart by a sink or an appliance, could serve as the two scores, each door gets a digit. Paint the overhead cabinets with HOME and GUEST to be centered above each number. Do them in dots with red or lime green or orange so it looks digital, like a lit display.

Of course these are details about basketball, which may or may not be right on the money. But you get the idea. Take something you love, dissect it for ideas how to decorate functional things in that theme. Don't try to add props that serve no function because this is foremost a workspace and needs to remain uncluttered.

Another kitchen theme might be your fav soda or another fav beverage using the COLORS and/or a few pieces of memorabilia from earlier ads for that product. Coca Cola has very easy to find decor pieces.

Answer 2

roosters, fat chefs, grapes

lol - just kidding - that made me rofl though

how about a subtle homage (not a theme) to provence france

keep what you have but add provencal colors and a few touches but no roosters lol

Answer 3

I used a Southwest theme. Tiles cut in half diagonally to trim the top and then full tiles on the diagonal. Beige with terra cota and dark green trim. And I found curtains that match very closely.

Answer 4

I'm with you. Hate that stuff. I just went with plain color accents for appliance covers, hand towels, curtain, canisters, etc... Then on top of wall cabinets placed antique kitchen items: blue speckled coffee pot, crockery bowl, old canning jars, etc... with fake varied shaded green vines around them.

Roosters, Chefs, Grapes, Cows, Sunflowers wasn't it.

Or follow your interest/hobby. Antique cars, western motif, etc...

Answer 5

Mine is decorated in apples. But if I were to redo, might go with sunflowers or daisys, or wines. There are alot of things out there for both.

Answer 6

Mine is more of a county cottage type thing. But given my cooking skills......fire.....fire house...fire department ....would be more appropriate. That way, when ever I burn something it just goes with the theme of my kitchen!

Answer 7

stainless steel, concrete and glass. of course, the concrete can be colored to your chose, and glass well let's see. use glass doors on cabinets, if your into color go for stained glass. i pretty much like the look of clear class with splashes of color with art work or lg. accessories.

Answer 8

i think a kitchen were you can feel at home. one that isn't to dark but isn't to bright.(the same with the color paint or wallpaper)!!!