Not (automatically) a supporting participant, the kitchen counter-top has a lead in discovering how our kitchen styles is likely to be perceived when it comes to colour, fat, balance, proportion, scale. The counter top is a participant! 12 manners it self is expressed by the counter top in the kitchen are noticed under each picture.
The kitchen counter-top has a style all its own. It may lead or it may follow. It can talk gently or powerfully.
As with other components in the kitchen, it’s important to examine the kitchen as a complete in the beginning, to have a vision of the way the important components will join with one another…and for what motives they are going to join.
A counter top can “talk” to the kitchen as a complete via light or darkness, delicate or daring colour, contrast, fashion, feel, formality, and so forth. What would you would like your counter top to say? Why?
When visualizing your counter top, recall the “level” of add-ons which is sitting together with the counter top. Will add-ons and these of use things be a colour narrative? Will they tell another storyline compared to counter top does, e.g. a contemporary, daring, counter top with conventional/diverse/other add-on?
There there may be no wrong or correct strategy per se. The most important thing is that you just visualize the “big image” of the kitchen style, the function you want your counter top to play, and also the responses will show themselves to you!
Susan Serra
A counter top in a colour that is strong could possibly FUNCTION AS THE design assertion, leaving everything else else impartial. This is a manifestation of private expression.
Harrell Re Modeling, Inc.
This functions – brownish wood and the countertop are shades that are complementary, the equilibrium with medium and light tones have been in a sync that is proportional, the darkish best is ideal! An perform in contrasts.
Schwartz and Architecture
An awesome/warm connection is almost always an all-natural pairing. Particularly in the organization of neutrals, great/warm tones components that are individual efficiently.
Susan M. Davis
A countertop that is impartial empowers colour, in this instance, in the turquoise wall cupboard, to be noticeable and be a vital layout component.
Michael Tauber Architecture
Easy, silent, surfaces that are encompassing juxtaposed having a not overly powerful, although solid, granite that is fluid, provides a counter top as focal point, a dose of texture. Beware of an excessive amount of countertop in this circumstance.
Vintage Building Components, Inc.
The large image, maybe intended in advance, consists of two components, counter top and cabinetry, which discuss a colour that is linking. A good balance of vertical and horizontal surfaces.
Austin Patterson Disston Architects
Comparison is definitely a winner. Black, about the counter tops sets a height basis at 1/3 the space peak, a timeless. that is percentage
Ilija Mirceski
Adore the distinction of neutrals, particularly how the grand walls are supported by the counter top in a flat line. An perform in perpendicular and flat colours as well as contours with two things that are obvious.
Elizabeth Dinkel
A counter top seems a unified portion of the bigger parts in the area plus understated. A fluid appearance, fully monochromatic.
Jonathan Cutler, AIA
The counter top is the eating furniture, along with an all-natural connection to the base of the chamber, the flooring. The counter top permits the isle to join more to the space that is proper.
Gridley + Graves Photographers
A good example of the upper ledges, partitions, window along with foundation cupboards counter top and trim, sharing precisely the same color of white. The area functioning the bigger white regions in perfect equilibrium, as a base. An appearance that’s getting more recent interest as a “builtin” sensation. Quite open appearance.
Susan Serra
Colours in walls, counter tops, cabinetry, tile are linked in tones that change only a just a little for extra textural curiosity. This appearance permits bigger components than if developed to study as an inferior scale, particularly if cupboards were dark/counter tops were gentle.
