If you’ve found yourself stumped on how to style that lonely corner in your dining room or make use of the empty space under your stairs, you’re not alone. In fact, interior designers have a whole slew of tricks for dealing with these spaces that are not living up to their potential.
7 Designer Tips for Decorating an Open Kitchen
28.09.2023 - 18:43 / thespruce.com / Sarah Lyon
Open-concept kitchens are wonderful for flexibility between rooms—for example, you can cook an amazing pasta dish in the kitchen and migrate right to the couch to eat it. But, if you're a bit stumped as to how you should decorate your open kitchen so that it looks top-notch, we have you covered.
Consider the seven tips from professional interior designers below. They touch on everything to keep in mind when working with this type of space, as it pertains to accessories, layout, appliance placement, and much more.
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If you're wondering how to best create different zones within a spacious open kitchen, keep in mind that you can use light fixtures to carve out various smaller areas, says Sarah Tract, the founder of Sarah Tract Interiors.
«Pendants over the island help to ground the eat-in kitchen, while a decorative light fixture over a kitchen table helps to ground and finish the dining space,» she says.
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Kitchens that feature double islands are rising in popularity, and in an open kitchen in particular, adding a second island to the mix can yield a number of benefits.
«I like to incorporate a second island, as it puts the gathering space at the outside edge of the island, as opposed to the inner edge, creating a literal physical boundary between the workspace and the gathering space,» explains Cathy Purple Cherry, the founder of Purple Cherry Architects.
Of course, opting for a large dining table will achieve similar results. «When you put a good-sized dining table with a generous amount of seating, it starts to define the space as where to go to eat and where to go to cook,» says Linda Hayslett, the founder of LH.Designs.
Design by Purple Cherry Architects / Photo by Durston Saylor
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