Room by Room Makeovers: Kitchens for Cooking and Entertaining

Kitchens today are the family rooms of yesterday. Many have to keep room with fireplace and cozy corners for reading, television, and sharing a cup of coffee. Make the most of the heart from here at home with some tips and suggestions.

Lights on the backsplash! Tile is the most widely chosen material for durability and maintenance, but you can also mirror, stainless steel, and paint it too. If you have old unattractive tile, you can even paint over itit.

Tidy the chaos! Use baskets as simple storage solutions for the mountains of mail, bills and coupons. Be sure to get a bulletin board for trade marks and posting the latest family pictures.

Expand your space! Hang a pot rack. Most kitchens seem to never have enough memory available. Expand selling by adding a pot rack on the stove. Yes, you have to be more vigilant in cleaning both the inside and the outside of pans, but it is also a good excuse to invest in somenew cookware.

Accessorize with function! Towels, pot holders, gloves, and canisters now puts everyone in such a variety of patterns and colors, they are a wonderful and quick way to get the interest and taste, add your own kitchen. Be sure to keep equipment for display on the hand. It's nothing less attractive than grunge towels on the door handle or a crispy mitt on these hooks are in the fridge.

Be bold with appliances! No longer are we down with white or stainless steel, butInstead of a rainbow of options is now available. Make a statement with color, bold or subdued, trendy or classic.

Dress the cabinets! If you have the typical 12 "-18" gap above the upper cabinets, dress with a collection and silk greenery. Make it more convenient to think of plates and mugs, glass bottles, colorful pottery, and so on. Make sure rope light as an inexpensive way to add it all shine.

Add some glass! Is your kitchen feeling is too dark, a bit difficult with soa lot of wood? Consider a glass insets for select cabinets, removing the wood panels. If you do not want to present the content to make it dull or patterned. There are a variety of ways today, adding interest and flashes it.

© 2005 Melissa Galt