Minimalist design strategies are a great asset to implement in your kitchen design or kitchen remodel. Your cabinets and countertops are where this relationship starts. Here are some steps to take to ensure that you don’t lose sight of your original kitchen layout, but also get the highest quality materials installed.
Elements of Your Kitchen in Minimalist Design
Countertops
Countertops are a great place to start, and what determines if the minimalist design is going to work. Fortunately, there are a ton of options here to choose from for the material. Anything from obsidian, quartz, limestone, marble, and more. You can find the perfect materials for your kitchen design that suit your exact needs.
Cabinets
Cabinets are your second most important piece to connect with the rest of your minimalist kitchen. Everything really comes down to design for these. Overall, it starts with the material choice, and then the color scheme and design. For example, black cabinets with gold fittings are great for
Appliances
Appliances only contribute to design in how they pair with the fittings of cabinet and countertop color schemes. You don’t need any one appliance really, but they do need to match up with the color scheme you’ve laid out. Otherwise, the room won’t feel complete.
How Should I Choose My Countertops?
Start With Your Dream Design
You have a dream design in your head right now. The reason that you started looking into a minimalist design, some kind of inspiration. Take this and use it as fuel to decide on how the countertops should be laid out. If it means converting your center cabinet area into an island, then that’s what you need to make happen. On the other hand, it could also mean scrapping large portions of the kitchen and starting from scratch. Additionally, remember to try and preserve what worked in the design you’ve begun with. These essential elements can easily be transplanted into the new design. However, this isn’t required. If your dream design is going to be completely new, then you can start from scratch as well.
Budget Your Minimalist Design Project
Your project is going to need a significant budget that depends on all the work you want to get done. If the budget doesn’t fit, the project won’t be completed to your exact specifications. Luckily there’s a way around this.
Customize your project around your budget by finding opportunities to cut costs. This can be in the material you use for certain pieces of the kitchen, the size of the layout shift, or replacement appliances. Overall, there are a few places you cannot compromise, the first being your countertops. These surfaces have the highest volume of usage in your entire kitchen. If they’re installed with weak, low-quality surfaces, they’re not going to last. It’ll always be more wallet-friendly to repair durable, quality material than replace weak material.
Pick a Material Based on Your Needs for a Minimalist Design
Each material is going to vary in pros and cons. For example, granite is cost-effective and durable with strong customization options. However, it is fairly limited in terms of the beauty of the material. Marble, on the other hand, is one of the most beautiful materials available. Unfortunately, it also struggles with stains and scratches. Each material has good and bad qualities, it really will just depend on the time you’re willing to dedicate to them.
Fortunately, we have some great solutions for you at KOL Marble and Granite in Cherry Hill, NJ. We will customize our service around your exact needs and find the most cost-effective solutions to reenvision your kitchen with a minimalist design. We’re looking forward to speaking with you!