Kitchen Design 2018: 100 contemporary ideas in the photo

The world of fashion does not stand still, the emergence of new trends in the design of residential spaces is an endless stream of ideas from designers around the world. At the London, Milan, Paris and New York showrooms, the freshest, hottest new items are presented to create the most comfortable, practical and effective interiors. The realization that thousands of professionals around the globe are working so that we can use the most modern and technological materials, appliances and appliances for our kitchen spaces cannot but inspire. But the most pleasant thing in all the modern trends in the design of multifunctional rooms is the popularity of creating an interior with the maximum regard for personal comfort. As in the last season, the main tasks of creating modern design remained the use of environmentally friendly materials, the search for the simplest and most concise solutions and the harmonious symbiosis of practicality and comfort.

The modern rhythm of life dictates the features of creating the most effective interiors. A modern housewife does not have time to prepare complex dishes with many ingredients and a long period of languishing on the stove, there is no way to clean silver tableware, and the devices themselves have long since given way to a more practical accessory. In a modern kitchen, it should be not only convenient and comfortable, but also easy from the point of view of performing the simplest work processes, to any household, even a child. Therefore, the integration of safe, high-tech and energy-saving household appliances into storage systems with the most convenient location and content is a priority for any designer (the owner of the kitchen space). The good news is that you can design a kitchen with a high level of effectiveness of external attractiveness and ergonomics even with a small budget and within a small space.

The main motives for the design of the kitchen in the coming season

General trends

The modern style of space design is multifaceted, but at the same time concise. He drew his motives in such stylistic directions as minimalism, loft, high-tech, industrialism. But even more "home", cozy stylistics are able to integrate their concept into the framework of a modern interior - country and eco-style, Scandinavian and Mediterranean motifs can be woven into the general outline of the design of the kitchen space.

The 2017 kitchen is a spacious and bright room with a rational layout, simple furniture solutions and the most convenient use of all elements. Obviously, for Russian realities, the implementation of the latest trends often rests on the modest size of kitchens. That is why the combination of the kitchen space with the living room has not only not lost popularity, but has become a real mainstream. No matter how far the progress and the catering system has taken, the Russians will not stop cooking dishes for family meals in the kitchen areas, nor will they stop receiving the closest guests at the dinner table.

The combination of the kitchen and the living room allows not only expanding the spatial capabilities, but also creating a multifunctional interior that can meet the comfort requirements of all households. Another important feature of combining functional segments within a single room is the level of natural lighting of the space. The larger your windows, the better. The lighter the existing room will be, the more it will seem, the more maneuvers for interior decoration will be with the designer or the owner of the home.

Modern style has always been a kind of mix of the main design trends borrowed in various stylistic directions. The mainstream of the coming season will be the so-called "reasonable eclecticism." One style is chosen as the basis (most often it is filled with laconicism and practicality) and elements from other styles are added to it very metered to bring comfort, coziness and aesthetics. It is the correct dosage of elements of different stylistic manifestations that dictates the success of the created design.

One of the original trends of our time is the mixing of cutting-edge technology and progressive finishes with intentionally aged elements or surfaces. An old sideboard can coexist with the smooth facades of a modern headset, and the most common finish alternates with worn surfaces, deliberately peeling paint.

Equally popular (and will continue next season) is the integration of retro-style household appliances into a kitchen with a modern interior. Most often, it is such retro-devices with a distinctive (and often bright) design that become the main accents of the kitchen design.

Color palette

The fashion for everything natural, natural is so firmly entrenched in current trends that it will not soon give way. You can be sure of the purchase of high-quality finishing materials or furniture made from natural raw materials. Not only durability, environmental friendliness and attractive appearance, but also the relevance of interior items will guarantee almost always high cost.

The love of nature is clearly embodied in color trends to design the most popular premises in any home - the kitchen. The motives of land, sea, stones and vegetation are more popular than ever. Designers draw inspiration from the elements of nature, embodying pleasing gaze color motifs in their designs. Such an approach is at hand for their customers - because natural shades always help to create a special, pacifying atmosphere of the room, an environment in which everyone will be cozy and comfortable.

Let us dwell in more detail on some examples of using the most popular color schemes. White kitchen will never go out of style. The symbol of purity and freshness is so connected in our minds with the comfort of cooking, the sterility of all surfaces, that it is difficult to deny yourself the pleasure of designing a kitchen space in all shades of white. But not only lightness and freshness attract designers and their customers. White tone is universal, it goes well with any color scheme. Not to mention that for a visual increase in the volume of a small space, all shades of white are ideal.

White color helps create a feeling of spaciousness even in a small room. Sunlight, reflected from snow-white surfaces, freely spreads throughout the room, creating a light image of the space in which freedom seems to be the most natural participant in the interior. In order to bring a color accent to a white kitchen design, you don’t need to be a designer. Against a snow-white background, furniture or any other interior items of any color look accented and colorful.

But a completely white kitchen will look sterile, airy, and not cozy. An ideal way to bring natural warmth, coziness and a sense of comfort to the snow-white kitchen design is to use wooden surfaces. Any species of wood, even the lightest, will accent look on a white background. Such an alliance always looks advantageous in combination with modern household appliances. Even in a modest room, the snow-white ensemble looks organically.

Do not leave their positions in the list of the most popular design projects and kitchens made using contrasting color combinations. Most often, designers offer to contrast each other with snow-white surfaces and inserts of dark gray, dark chocolate and even black. Any of the shades of wenge color will look great in combination with a light finish or snow-white countertops. To avoid overly straightforward contrast of the kitchen image, experts recommend "diluting" the black and white alternation with wood elements. It can be either the facades of the kitchen, as well as countertops, furniture for the dining area, and even decoration or parts thereof.

The use of various shades of gray while creating a practical, functional and at the same time outwardly attractive image of the kitchen does not go out of fashion. Neutral shades are good in that even non-professionals can cope with combinatorics. Gray shades are easily combined with wood, they always look advantageous in combination with a white tone and metered blots of bright color. The design in gray tones is not only comfortable for our eyes, but also favorable for creating a neutral emotional background of the room, in which every household or guest can feel comfortable.

Room decoration

No matter how much time passes, no matter what innovations, progress in the production of finishing materials does not offer us, and the special microclimate of the kitchen space dictates its own criteria for choosing raw materials for decorating the surfaces of a multifunctional room. Constant changes in temperature conditions, high humidity in some areas of the kitchen space and possible mechanical influences complicate the choice of finishing materials, putting practicality and functionality at the forefront. But modern technologies allow us to choose options for the design of kitchen surfaces without loss of aesthetics, maintaining environmental friendliness and practicality of materials.

In modern design projects of kitchen spaces, decoration is only a backdrop for the main participants in the interior - a furniture set and a dining group. Wall decoration is most often performed in a single color scheme. Neutral light shades can alternate with dark contrast, but the use of a print is considered irrelevant (at least when designing a kitchen in a modern style).

Considering the fact that materials that are harmful (or even slightly suspicious) for a person are a taboo of the interiors of 2017, natural raw materials come to the fore. Many designers use cork for modern interiors. This is a light, warm and environmentally friendly material with its original texture, which does not break during painting. The use of cork coating is quite capable of replacing the use of decorative plaster, in addition, it is easy to mount.

Concrete surfaces (or their spectacular imitation) do not give up their positions and continue to be popular both among designers and their customers. A light touch of industry (and therefore modernity) gives the kitchen interior even a small concrete surface. The gray color of concrete can be safely called the most neutral, it easily harmonizes with any options for tones of decoration and furniture.

Features of the choice of furniture

A modern furniture set is a symbiosis of conciseness, practicality, ergonomics and aesthetics. In whatever design the furniture was executed, it should be functional, as convenient as possible to use and easy to care for. Modern mechanisms, the latest developments in the field of furniture fittings allow you to create convenient storage systems even in hard-to-reach places, using rationally every centimeter of the kitchen space.

The use of ready-made furniture solutions for kitchen spaces is significantly inferior in popularity to the manufacture of a set according to individual sizes. This is due to the particular layout of apartments from the buildings of the last century, and the lack of square meters and the desire of customers to get a furniture solution that will fully satisfy their needs for storage, integration of household appliances and the distribution of work surfaces.

The fashion for absolutely smooth facades has subsided a bit, an increasing number of world brands for the production of ready-made furniture solutions for the kitchen prefer to use accessories. But for many designers, smooth facades are still a symbol of modernity. So we can only rely on our own intuition and taste preferences, choosing the best option for the execution of facades for our kitchen.

Another trend of this and the coming season is the use of open storage shelves as an alternative to the upper tier of kitchen cabinets. In small rooms, this approach will prevent the creation of the “casket” effect, when a small room, completely filled with storage systems, visually presses its volume on the people in it. In large kitchen spaces, the combination of wall cabinets and open shelves is most often used - an interesting design and practical component bribes many homeowners and designers.

If we talk about the choice of furniture for the organization of the dining area, then there is no universal option, which could be called the mainstream. The furniture for the dining segment is selected based on the room's facilities, the number of family members and lifestyle features. Someone needs to seat a few people at the table every evening for a family dinner, while others just have a bar or countertops on the kitchen island to arrange a couple.

If there is enough space in the kitchen space for organizing the dining area, experts recommend using round or oval tables. This form allows not only adding the number of seats if necessary, does not interfere with traffic and is safe for a home in which there are small children, but also looks attractive and cozy at home. Rectangular and square tables for meals are no less popular - the weight depends on the geometry of the main furniture - a kitchen unit. But even in these pieces of furniture most often, modern manufacturers began to round corners.

If your family has no more than three people and mass feasts are not your thing, then a small area for meals organized on an extended countertop of a kitchen island or peninsula will be enough. This food zone is compact and can be performed very original. With the help of unusual bar stools or stools, you can bring originality and creativity to the interior of the kitchen.

Lighting system, accessories and decor

In modern design projects, decoration is minimized. In particular, the downward trend in the number of elements bearing an exclusively decorative function is noticeable in kitchen spaces. In a room where several quadrant meters need to place a large number of storage systems with embedded appliances, organize work surfaces and a dining area, there is a risk of creating a cluttered effect if the decor is used too actively. Therefore, quite decorative interior objects are most often used as decorative elements - lighting devices, dishes, cookbooks, living plants, fruits.

In laconic and maximally functional design projects of kitchen facilities, lighting devices are often the only bright, accent or original elements of the interior that can stand out against the general background, attract attention and even dictate the occupancy of the area around you.

A bright, outstanding spot on a completely neutral background of the interior of a modern kitchen can be a variegated upholstery of a kitchen corner or a small sofa, a tablecloth on a dining table, or the piece of furniture itself. You can choose a colorful upholstery for chairs or stools, regardless of how the dining area is organized - at the table, kitchen island or bar counter.

Designers pay special attention to kitchen accessories, which means that manufacturers of various devices for this multi-purpose room seek to provide as many options as possible for modern, practical and aesthetic equipment. For example, faucets have long ceased to be just taps for supplying water - this modern device helps to save fluid consumption and clean it. And at the same time they can look futuristic, equipped with lighting and amaze with the luster of chrome surfaces, or be executed in the old spirit with copper or bronze coatings, carved valves and luxurious decor.