10 ideas to design kitchens full of color | Digest Architectural

A Colorful kitchen It can be the best to start your day. From the first morning coffee to dinner with family or friends: we spend a lot of time every day in home kitchen, which is called the heart of the house. However, when choosing colors for cabinets, fronts and the like, most people are much more reserved and opt for white, gray or black beige. With our selection, we show you how versatile and even timeless Colorful kitchen. Among these elegant examples there is sure there is something that adapts to your tastes.

1. Bold and cozy color

For the design of this Colorful kitchen In a typical old building in Berlin, the duo of designers Jäll & Tofta ventured once more beyond the expected white and gray. The result: a fresh composition of cold blue tones and warm roses. Basic geometric shapes are joined to strong colors -a favorite element of designers -as well as some colorful bowls and vases. And, another prominent element of the design, a cozy «Togo» sofa, which is currently experiencing a rebirth in many rooms and even has a very good presence in the kitchen.

In their designs, Jäll & Tofta usually do without the high cabinets to keep the kitchen as aerated as possible. However, there is no lack of storage space thanks to the generous island.

Anne Deppe.

The owners wanted first of all a more cozy kitchen, and that is why Jäll & Tofta designers painted the walls of an intense pink color. The yellow pigments of the Farrow & Ball Setting Plaster tone give it a warm appearance.

Anne Deppe.

2. Colorful, but relaxed

Not everyone has their own studio, but a kitchen. Why not move the office there? The Cooking Island Located in the center of this Berlin kitchen, it can become quickly and easily a workplace and offers all kinds of Storage space; There is even a printer behind linoleum fronts, which resume the colors of the rough wall and, nevertheless, structure the stay safely. While the high furniture and the island are dark blue, the high closet takes up the greenish nuances of the walls and contrasts with a strong red wine.

The owner of the house, an architect, developed a clear chromatic concept together with the designers of Mykilos, which harmonizes with the rough appearance of the unrelated walls.

Mykilos

In contrast to the walls, cabinets, the row and the island, the ground has painted a sober white.

Mykilos.

3. Fresco and summery

That the Italian designer Edgardo Osorio has a weakness for the fruit not only is demonstrated by the logo of his Aquazzura shoe brand (it represents a pineapple), but also the Colorful kitchen of his Venetian department in the San Marcos neighborhood. Together with Officine Gullo, whose kitchens are manufactured in Italy as well as Osorio's shoes, created a stainless steel dream in pastel turquoise. The highlight: the color tone continues on the walls, populated with colorful fruit trees, flowers and exotic animals. The hand -painted garden scene is inspired by botanical drawings of the 18th century. Thus, the cuisine almost without windows becomes a pergola AIRADA

Exotic animals, flowers and hand painted trees surround even the wide refrigerator.

Mattia Aquila.

The footwear designer Edgardo Osorio wanted to create in his kitchen the atmosphere of a winter garden, in which the different stations were recognized next to plants and animals. The parquet floor was painted with stripes of different widths in beige.

Mattia Aquila

4. Yellow kitchen in an old building

“I always knew I wanted a yellow kitchen. But then a baby blue closet and pink walls appeared and gradually realized: the kitchen project I had escaped! ” Sarah Gottschalk, co -founder of Jane Wayne, needed professional help. Together with Farrow & Ball, the new concept of color, newly finished, around yellow and blue fronts was created. The roof is now painted in a soft blue that corresponds to the closet, the walls and stucco in two tones dyed, the doors, the frames and the rolling evenly in an earthy neutral tone. And the result? «Feel good.»

Stucco, high ceilings and old soils combined with a colorful reform kitchen: this is where Sarah Gottschalk cooks with her family.

Volker Conradus.

The refrigerator (right) colored geometric surfaces are combined with the light blue cooking fronts of reform.

Volker Conradus.

5. Green lava stone as chromatic accent

In a brutalist building designed by the Swiss architect Ernst Gisel in 1988, designer Victoria Maria demonstrates that it is not always the fronts that have to shine with striking colors. Residents, a family of four members, wanted their New kitchen It was a place where not only would be cooked and ate, but also in which people sit down independently of meals. To fulfill this desire, Victoria Maria ordered a cozy bank who, together with her Roger table Of own design, it offers enough space for everyone. But for there to be a visual connection with the rest of this Colorful kitchen Despite the distance, he chose an enameled lava stone for the countertop, the sink and the dashboard of the line, which illuminates the entire room with its bright green.

The designer Victoria Maria has also managed to create a perfect mixture despite and precisely because of the striking colors and materials such as marble, polished brass and intense green.

Belen Imaz

The table design is the work of Victoria Maria and almost remembers a sculpture.

Belen Imaz.

6. Bright colors for a cold base

In this renovated department of the Berlin neighborhood of Schöneberg, the open kitchen It is part of a gigantic built -in furniture that extends from the ground floor to the gallery, thus fulfilling the client's desire to dispose of the greatest possible storage space. But striking contrasts of materials and colors were also created, according to Jan Ulmer, «to create a tension field between the finish and the frame.» Therefore, the architect chose elegant and brilliant natural materials, such as marble, walnut and a warm apricot, as well as a deep eggplant tone, which give more warmth to the cold roughness of the concrete soil seen and sunny. So that there are, however, «a kind of medium plane, or rather a background between the two extremes», the interior of the cabinets and shelves – stants as well as, in part, rear panels – remained in black.

With the apricot and eggplant, Jan Ulmer has chosen two warm tones that give the entire stay more fresh and foster care.

Mikael Olsson.

Cabinets, shelves and coatings of the entire floor merge gently with each other thanks to the conscious choice of colors and materials.

Mikael Olsson.

7. Unexpectedly colorful design

Probably, the artist Carl Larsson never imagined that «Lilla Hyttnäs» would one day be called the most famous house in Sweden when he furnished her for him and his wife Karin around 1889. More than 100 years later, the Cupboards & Goods kitchen manufacturer received the commission of designing a kitchen for this same house, which still is still owned by the family. The result is this spacious Colorful and familiar kitchen Regional pine wood shaker painted in four vibrant colors. And although at first glance one could not think that these rich tones are typically Swedes, they come from the color palette of one of the most famous painters in the country: Carl Larsson (1853-1919).

The Swedish artist Carl Larsson is known for his paintings and watercolors, who often represent his life with his family at his home in Sundborn.

Daniel Cedergren / Fanny Rådvik.

The colors collection ETT HEM (In Swedish, A home) It consists of four tones and has been developed by Carl Larsson-Gården, a private museum located in the old house of Larsson, and the Swedish manufacturer of paintings and paper Tapiz Little Greene. The four tones come from Carl Larsson's favorite palette and also carry the names of some of his works: Köket, Verandan, Grinden and Skamvrån.

Daniel Cedergren / Fanny Rådvik.

8. Warm reds in a family kitchen

While remodeling their 1850 country house, the owners Stefanie Brechbuehler and Robert Highsmith, founders of the Design and architecture study Workstead, they waited twins. It is not surprising, then, that the couple put great emphasis on functionality when designing approximately 110 m². To ensure that the kitchen also offered enough space and a lot embedded cabinets With removable shelves that can also house small appliances. When choosing the colors, the couple was inspired by the brick tones. The countertop consists of three marble plates whose veins coincide exactly at the edges.

The island not only serves as a work surface and offers a lot of storage space thanks to the numerous drawers, but also used as a changer and bathing area for twins during the first months.

Matthew Williams.

The incident light further highlights the striking design of the kitchen island.

Matthew Williams

9. A color for each function

All in one piece? Anyone can do it! With different colors and shapes, the interior architect and Belgian designer Dries Otten wanted to deliberately give the impression that the kitchen has gradually grow over the years, almost like its occupants, a family with two young children. Otten has also reinterpreted here the word of domestic stimulus «distribution of functions»: each function was assigned its own color.

As the kitchen melts with the room, the interior designer Dries Otten hid appliances such as the oven and the microwave after the front green fronts on the right. Hexagonal terracotta tiles were placed again when the house was remodeled.

Dries Otten.

The interior designer Dries Otten is known for its strong colors. In this kitchen, he combined them with different materials (in the image, among others, oak, teak, quartz stone and brass).

Dries Otten.

10. Mixture of colors and materials

Sina Gwosdzik and Jakob Dannenfeldt, founders of the Berlin Jäll & Tofta study, know a lot about designing custom kitchens. However, designing their own kitchen was a completely new challenge for the two designers, since they now had much to choose from, since they could resort to all their knowledge about colors and materials and had no specifications, as usually happens with the works on request. However, according to Sina Gwosdzik, it was also easier «because each of us already had preferred materials around which we decided everything else.» In addition to unusual colors and materials, the functionality of the kitchen and a sufficient storage space were the main ones …