People love having a dream kitchen, and many home interior magazines and shows present what these kitchen trends should look like. You will see designs that include pots and pans on racks overhead and kitchen islands that double as eating places.
We long wanted our kitchens to be showroom kitchens that looked good in photographs, but some trends are fading.
Last year, we trended away from pretty kitchens to pretty, practical, and functional home rooms. The current kitchen reminds us that we want things that are durable but not hard to maintain, clean in design but not laboriously difficult to clean.
Kitchen Trends That Are Fading Away
What are these kitchen trends that are fading away?
Faux Finishes
Replicating material surfaces with paint will not be as good as the real thing. Current kitchens lean toward a polished, simpler design, and faux finishes are incompatible with this look.
Without a skillful artistic eye, faux finishes on your walls can look “crafty” badly. It’s not uncommon to think this appears as an easy DIY until they get into sections like challenging corners.
If you want to make your walls artistic, you can hang artwork in your kitchen. Paintings or sculptural pieces can provide interesting texture and focus in the room.
Garbage Disposal as an Afterthought Not Incorporated into the Design
Having a standalone kitchen bin is handy but can stand out like a sore thumb. It is odd to spend money on a kitchen remodel but have that work distracted by a five-dollar trash can. Many people put a wastebasket beneath the sink, but some may need that space for other storage.
An elegant solution is to use cabinetry that incorporates rubbish drawers into its structure. Some trash receptacle drawers are deep enough to store two wastebaskets, one for recycling and the second for other rubbish.
Wall Cabinets that Don’t Reach the Ceiling
Wall cabinets are mounted higher than people’s heads, and people typically need to reach for anything on higher shelves. In practical terms, there should only be two different heights for wall cabinets. They should be low enough so the cabinet top can be used as a shelf or extended to the ceiling.
Dust can accumulate in that section if a wall cabinet leaves a small gap between the top and the ceiling. Because of the height, dusting without a stepladder would be a huge inconvenience.
Countertops with Tiles
While tiled countertops can be beautiful and decorative, modern kitchen design favors practical on top of pretty. The grout can stain if colorful drinks like wine, juice, or coffee get into the grout that binds the tiles.
Since most tiles are ceramic, heavy impact can break them and cause them to be replaced. The corners of tiled countertops can completely break off; there’s no elegant way to replace them. While people can save costs by making this a DIY project, your measurements and layout must be perfect.
As mentioned, people are leaning now towards practical countertops, which are usually flat slab surfaces. Marble and granite are beautiful if you are willing to maintain them. But if you lack time, a durable surface like quartz or laminate would be a better choice for your lifestyle.
Partial Backsplash
Backsplashes can be neglected in a kitchen since they are essentially unused wall space. However, if you paint them, put tile on them, or do something creative, they can become good backdrops.
However, partial backsplashes (or tiny backsplashes) were a fad in kitchens for a while. Over time, they have become less satisfactory.
Creating a tiny backsplash makes it look like the job was left incomplete or people were not bothered to finish it. It also has the unintentional design effect of making a kitchen look smaller.
If the backsplash is unfinished, there is not enough space for other things in the kitchen. People who choose a design for the backsplash should go all the way!
Too Many Open Shelves
Open shelving has been a recent kitchen trend and is often considered cost-efficient. There are many tutorials on how to create your own shelves. In many home décor magazines, open shelves look picture-perfect enough for people to want them.
However, what is presented in magazines doesn’t necessarily consider your lifestyle and how you use your kitchen. You must be meticulous organizing your shelves, otherwise, it is easy for your kitchen to look like a mess.
It would also look better if all your plates, cookware, and glassware matched so they don’t look haphazard. Also, all of the plates and glasses exposed are subject to dust collection, so you need to dust often.
Microwave Installed Over the Range
In many kitchens, we see this design of all cooking appliances installed into a single neat column. While we think it makes for a clean look, this placement of appliances is impractical in practice.
The cooking from the range does not vent properly, and the grease only wafts into the microwave above it. A person cooking at the stove limits the use of the microwave. The microwave hood is out of the reach of young children.
Microwave ovens are best placed on the countertop or mounted beneath a wall cabinet for more countertop space.
