How To Make Your Kitchen Look and Feel Bigger

Have you always wanted a spacious kitchen, but have no room for expansion? Instead of calling the movers, while looking for a new home, you must try a few of our tips. We have discovered so many ways to make your kitchen look and feel bigger. Here are our all-time favorites!

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Eliminate Clutter

If you have any clutter in this room of your home, we suggest removing it immediately. This one small task can have your kitchen looking and feeling bigger in no time at all.

Add Lighting

Kitchens often feel small, because they do not have enough lighting. If you have one lonely light in your kitchen, we recommend adding a few new light fixtures. They will brighten up this space, while allowing you to see better when you are cooking. Talk about a double win.

Paint Your Kitchen White

Dark paint on the walls in a kitchen can make it feel smaller than it really is. We recommend you switch up the paint color to white or another lighter color. The results will be an airy and open kitchen you will instantly love.

Utilize All that Open Vertical Space

Small kitchens don’t offer a lot of storage space. This normally results in things stacking up on the countertops and leads to a cluttered feel. To prevent this from happening to you, we recommend utilizing all your open vertical space. You can hang peg boards and even magnetic strips to put things on. A pot and pan rack hanging from the wall is another excellent option when utilizing vertical space.

Install Open Shelves

Cabinets with doors can be big and bulky, which leads to kitchens looking smaller than they are. To open this space up a little, we recommend taking the time to install open shelves. Floating shelves with as few brackets as possible will make your kitchen look much larger. The one thing to keep in mind when you install open shelves though, is you must keep them organized. If you don’t, they will look disheveled at all times and that will make your kitchen look small once again.

Remove All Trim

Homeowners love trim in kitchens and other rooms of the house. However, if you have a small kitchen, trim will make the space even smaller. Instead of seeing the kitchen as one open space, your eyes will always stop at the crown molding or chair rail. Trim always breaks the room into smaller pieces.

Choose an Open Island

If you must have an island in your small kitchen, we recommend one that is open on all sides. This way you can see through the island and have the illusion your kitchen is much bigger than it really is.

Place Glass in Cabinet Doors

Solid wood doors on cabinets can box in a room. Therefore, we recommend placing glass in cabinet doors when you have a smaller kitchen. The glass will allow your eyes to keep looking through the cabinet, which will make the kitchen feel much larger. You must keep the insides of your cabinets organized with this solution or it can backfire on you.

Create Recessed Storage

If you love having a pantry in your kitchen, but it looks bulky and out of place, we recommend creating recessed storage. Tucking pantries, or other shelving units, flush into the wall means you are opening the floor plan on your kitchen without even realizing it.

Always Use Clean Lines in Your Design

Clean lines are the way to go in smaller kitchens. The focus stays on the entire kitchen instead of little sections.

These are ten ways to make your kitchen look and feel bigger. There are many other ways to make your kitchen feel larger, but these are the ones that will make the biggest impact in a short amount of time. So, start with these and quickly realize you have a bigger kitchen than you thought!

Contact Shai at Green Advisor, Inc. for your home and landscape renovation needs 888-869-0987.

10 Ways to Make Your Kitchen Look and Feel Bigger