We went to Interior Design Show West to find out what the current trends were in interior design and interviewed a few experts. In this video, they share their thoughts on current kitchen trends. Featuring Kelly Deck of Kelly Deck Design as well as Matt Davis and Anwar Mekhayech of The Design Agency.
Video Transcriptions
A lot of what’s happening in a lot of the cities, the kitchen trends are getting really compact. The compact kitchen is becoming the norm for multi-residential projects. When you get to your larger kitchens there’s always going to be the trend of the “shaker style” the kind of old-world look. But there’s again, a little bit more of a willingness of the larger homes to buy into an ultra modern style kind of kitchen instead of deferring back to the trend of traditional kitchens. So on a smaller scale, we’re seeing a little more tactillian, a larger scale, you’re seeing a willingness to move towards ultra modern kitchen.
[Matt Davis from The Design Agency]
Most of my clients are still asking for white. I think that really the most exciting thing that’s happened in kitchen and baths is the return to using brass and gold for fixtures and hardware. It’s a different type of finish, it’s brushed, it’s softer. I really like what that adds and I like contrasting metals in bathrooms and kitchens. I think it goes back to an old world or Parisian sensibility.
[Kelly Deck of Kelly Deck Design]
Now they can almost emulate a natural carrara or that kind of veining in the stone. And that’s actually giving that whole “solid surface stone”, it’s really coming back now. It’s got the durability of what granite would have and the texture of what marble would have – engineering that so that it’s a very stable and reliable product. And they’re solid colours. Before, maybe 5 years ago, you’d be very limited in solid colours, in manufactured surfaces. Now you can get 3 different shades of white and 10 different shades of grey and even reds and blues – in solid colours which they didn’t have before.
[Anwar Mekhayech of The Design Agency]
