If you can’t find a kitchen cabinet trend to follow, combine designs that you already know and love. Hybrid kitchens are a big part of the trend, according to HGTV. If people are doing it, it’s a trend.
In Arizona, homeowners are blending Asian styles with large armoire-style pieces. On the east coast, homeowners are finishing kitchen cabinets in—you guessed it—whatever they want. That means cabinets are painted chiffon yellow, earth greens, reds, and black! It means people are buying exotic hard woods on one end of the scale, or wheatboard and strawboard on the “green” side of trends. Actually, The Trend seems to be “whatever you like”.
Fashionably Extreme Kitchen Cabinets
Ask Hangzhou Huierbang Kitchen Company about trends, and you’ll hear that Tuscany or distressed effects are hot. Then ask HGTV’s designers, and they say “heavy distressing” is definitely out, in favor of painted finishes.
Old European frills in the patterns in molding, door panels, or drawer fronts and heavy hardware work just fine in a kitchen with bright colors and hanging woks. Exotic trends are always freeing and you know the correction is coming. But for now, play!
If antiques or era styles are your thing, you can bring Victorian influences into your kitchen cabinets and countertops. You’ll pay on the higher end of the scale for mahogany, alder, maple or, on the green front, sustainable softwoods.
As for paint, don’t be surprised when seeing bright reds or contrast colors on cabinets, doors, and drawer fronts. There’s one rule: homeowners should match the kitchen design scheme with the organizing style of the home. Please, no gargoyles in my ranch kitchen!
