How To Modernise Your Worn Kitchen

While you’ll often consider little projects to spruce up the bedroom or living room in your home, you will find that sometimes the room that often gets ignored winds up being the kitchen – but why is this? Making improvements to your old kitchen can often improve the value of your home for up to a 50% profit on what you spent to develop it – and even if you’re not looking to sell I’m sure you’d rather be cooking in a space that feels a bit fresher!

Here’s a list of some top tips for giving your kitchen a much-needed shakeup and leave you with a better place to cook.

Identify the weaknesses
Before you start any work on glamorising your kitchen’s appearance, you should first check to make sure there aren’t any problems that need fixing – this doesn’t just apply to broken appliances, but you should probably get those fixed too. What we mean here is any wasting of space that makes your movement inefficient. You might not be a professional-level chef, but everyone would benefit from having their space optimised so everything is where it needs to be!

Colour the walls
A quick and inexpensive method of jazzing up your kitchen, putting some much-needed colour into your walls through paint is a great way to transform the room. The walls next to your cooker will likely be getting scrubbed often, due to splashback from the pots and pans, so it’s best getting a durable paint that can withstand a bit of scrubbing – latex would probably be your best bet.

It’s also an idea to use kitchen wallpaper on the walls that aren’t likely to get stained with grease – a nice wallpaper can really add a bit of character to your kitchen rather than a boring white paint.

Out with the old
If your appliances have been around on this earth longer than your children have, don’t you think it’s time you updated them? Grabbing yourself an energy efficient fridge or dishwasher that performs to a far better standard than your old one. You can also get an appliance with a sleek finish that adheres to the style of your kitchen – rather than sticking out like a sore thumb.

Apply new worktops
There are plenty of material finishes to choose from when it comes to kitchen countertops, from oak to marble, that can come at a variety of styles and qualities to accommodate any budget. You would be surprised at the complete transformation your kitchen will undertake when you change the look of the worktops.

Bring it out in the open
To give your kitchen a real modern feel, why don’t you ditch the dusty old cabinets and replace with them an open shelving situation? Not only will it give your kitchen a sleek look to it, it also makes everything you need a lot easier to grab – from your spices to your aromatics! For when you absolutely need cabinets, then consider a mix of open shelves and glass doors so everything appears out in the open. Just be sure to keep it all neat and tidy!