Traditional Style Kitchen Remodeling Services

Designing the Traditional Look

Grandma’s kitchen might not have had a designer, but the best new traditional kitchens do! Although traditional kitchens tend to have more multi-layered details than contemporary ones, this doesn’t mean that traditional kitchens are chaotic. Rather, their varying lines and eye-catching details offer many opportunities to apply design principles, such as:

• Symmetry. Symmetry is actually incredibly difficult to pull off in most rooms without
  looking awkward or chintzy. However, in traditional kitchens, the numerous details make it easy to introduce symmetry into cabinets or appliances, giving the room a sense of completeness and calm.
• Fields of Color. Traditional kitchens use colour to push or pull certain details. The most common schemes tend to use push colors like dark blue on the walls, or pull colors like yellow and brown, to make cabinets and counters pop out and attract the eye.
• Bold, Complex Textures. Although textures are important in all kitchens, they are particularly powerful in traditional kitchens. Wood grain works like a pull colour by drawing the eye to particular cabinets or furniture. It creates interest and liveliness in a kitchen. Hammered metal can be used to add detail to surfaces and ceilings, and can bring the room together by matching metal elements in different parts of the room.
• Non-Square Angles. Giving up the emphasis on straight lines frees up the designer to use angles outside of the typical 90 degrees. These angles allow for different geometric patterns and shapes that can help focus the room on particular cabinets or focal points.