When some people think of rustic kitchen furniture they think it must be old fashioned but this is definitely not the case. Not everyone likes the stainless steel effect in a kitchen as they believe it to be impersonal and too commercial looking.
They prefer this room to represent the heart of their home and therefore want it to be warm and welcoming. But that doesn’t mean that they don’t want all the conveniences associated with modern kitchen furniture.
What is rustic kitchen furniture?
Rustic kitchen furniture is usually made from wood and will have open display shelves on quite a few of the cabinets. The homeowner will use these to display any antique crockery they inherited or recently purchased. The wood should be real wood and not laminate although you can get away with veneered wood if money is scarce. Don’t have everything matching. For this particular style you should have complimentary pieces rather than ones that look like a carbon copy of each other. The cabinets may be freestanding or built in or a mixture of both. You would probably want to hide the modern conveniences of the dishwasher, washing machine and fridge behind wooden cabinet doors.
Rustic kitchen design includes the flooring, wall colors, the accessories even the kitchen sink.
If you want to stick to the rustic kitchen design theme, you will paint the walls of the room in either yellow, red or cobalt blue. The furniture should be good quality but not look like it came out of a designer showroom. Instead of having a mahogany table and chairs, an old cherry or hickory table with long seats would be more suitable. You can check out antique showrooms near you to see if they have anything suitable. While they may not have the right table, they could have a wooden kitchen dresser which would be prefect to compliment your other cabinets. A Belfast sink should also be on your shopping list. These can be found online, in specialist stores and also in reclaim yards.
When purchasing accessories, try to keep to the theme of the overall style or you will ruin the effect of your furniture. You want to choose bronze rather than plastic or stainless steel. Buy wooden salad bowls instead of the modern metal equivalent. Complete the look with pretty window dressings and some fresh flowers.
If you don’t want to buy new kitchen cabinets, you can give your existing cupboards a makeover. You can either paint the doors or you can replace them with rustic pine kitchen cabinets. Be careful with the choice of the color as you can make the room too dark. Wooden furniture will not reflect the light so if your room doesn’t benefit from a lot of natural light, you may have to paint some of the walls white or cream or the room will be depressing.
For the ultimate design you can buy rusty looking knobs and hardware to give the final touches to your rustic kitchen cabinets.
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