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We spend most of our time in and around the kitchen area with our children and family. Kitchen is the central place for fun and activities in any house. This very reason makes it so important to modernize your kitchen with the latest kitchen tech, new innovative colors, and other innovative things. Use these top 5 creative ways to bring a new look and feel to your kitchen as well as to your lives. Let’s start the countdown:

1. Choosing sleek and modern appliances

It is time to ditch the old and low efficient kitchen appliances and replace them with high tech and high efficient modern appliances that will help you in making the room look modern and sleek along with saving you some bucks on power and energy charges. Choosing right materials like metal or stainless steel for your kitchen is Important. The trend in the market is for metals like chrome, brushed aluminum, copper, stainless steel and nickel. Try using these materials for the cabinetry, cook tops, and ranger hoods and any other place you want.

2. Make your kitchen look bigger by removing upper cabinetry

Sure, the upper cabinetry provides lots of storage in the kitchen but that is an old trend and also makes the kitchen to look small and cluttered. The new trend in the kitchens is to have a open upper cabinetry which are made of glass or just the shelves without wood doors. This will open up the kitchen space and adds a touch of modern and contemporary feel to the kitchen. By removing the upper cabinetry you can get some color into the kitchen by painting the walls with cool colors. You can also add floating type shelves and cabinets which is a great addition to any kitchen.

3. Add new lightings to the space

A well lighted kitchen looks more clean, open and sophisticated than a kitchen in dark, with less lighting. Add a skylight to the ceiling or to the top off the walls to allow some natural light into the kitchen. This will help the kitchen look bright and as well helps you save money on the energy bills. You can also add ambient lighting with the led lights that consume less power and gives out a good lighting. Make sure that you add the artificial lighting in right places to illuminate the kitchen in a good way.

4. Change the flooring

Flooring is often neglected and people won’t change it no matter what. Since the flooring occupies almost all the space of the kitchen you need to change the flooring too, if you want to bring a decorative and modern fell to the kitchen. Switch from your old vinyl floorings to more efficient and sophisticated looking materials like wood, stone or tiles. Now you can get many patterns, textures and designs in the market on tiles, stones and woods. You can also install ceramic tiles that look exactly like wood or some other material. This will also add more value to your house.

5. Bring in some decorative elements to your kitchen

You don’t have to add lots of decoration items to your kitchen to make it look designer all you need to do is add two or three decorative elements to key spaces in the kitchen like dining/breakfast table, to the shelves on the island of the kitchen or to a corner. Add things like flowers, antique looking vases, cookbooks, fresh bowl of fruits or lemons to bring some color into the kitchen or add a good herb planters with herbs, line up the dining table with pebble stones as a table runner. You can search for ideas on websites like pinterest and you can select the one that suits your kitchen and your mentality.