8 kitchen trends to avoid in 2021
8 kitchen trends to avoid in 2021
Are you planning your dream kitchen? Are you looking for the best kitchen trends in design? May your current space just needs a refresh. Regardless, in this video I discuss what I think are some of the kitchen trends to avoid in 2021, when planning your kitchen space.
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I think these are actually taste elements more than faux pas. Some are also not my style but this has nothing to do with functionality.
Coming from the food service industry, I like the idea of open shelving, but only in households that use many dishes or have multiple cooks on a regular basis. It’s easier to grab things and eliminates a cabinet door potentially being in someone’s way, but glass doors are a better option for most people who want an open look. As for the microwave, I’ve never had a kitchen large enough for anything other than an over-the-range, but honestly don’t mind the look. I’d only do something different if I had a wall oven to combine it with.
I need a kitchen desk for my husband in our next kitchen. He uses it a lot. I just don’t want it to look outdated
Most old kitchen sinks were white porcelain, farmhouse or not. You may be too young to remember. I agree with most of these recommendations. But I find a kitchen desk a wonderful concept. I love the idea, I know I spent the better part of two decades having my kids do homework at a kitchen table while I was cooking dinner or doing laundry, in the room off the kitchen. I wanted them close, so I could supervise them. I would love to have had them separated in the kitchen one at the desk, type of thing, to reduce the bickering from being too close. A kitchen desk is so practical for my lifestyle. Every morning while having coffee, I’m at my kitchen table with a lap top, would much prefer a desk. If I can find the space, I will incorporate it into the design for my kitchen remodel for sure.
Why would I need to wash dust off my dishes on my open shelves when I ise them all day long?
It’s actually called a Belfast sink z
In the UK we never ever put our microwaves above cookers. It only 🇺🇸. Bad idea. We have ous mostly on worktop
Stainless steel: the Harvest Gold of the 2020s.
I guess stainless is all right, but stay away from black stainless. The first scratch will tell you why.
I’m going bold for countertop appliance colors, but black porcelain for the cooktop. One look at a stainless surface discolored by heat will tell you why.
Why do we want to hang pots? Because they are loud and inconvenient in a drawer or cupboard, because bending over is challenging for the disabled, because they don’t get scratched when they’re hanging.
Sometimes you don’t NEED to put the OTR microwave over the range. Put it somewhere where others can access it without bothering the cooktop area, like over a counter. Plus you get automatic counter lighting. Bonus!
saying open shelving can add warmth to a space is a null argument because wooden or warm-toned cabinets would do the same and have much more potential for adding warmth than a few rows of narrow shelves
Perhaps because I’m a bit older, but the porcelain white farmhouse sink was in farmhouses I visited as a child. The old house I lived in, in the 70’s had a huge porcelain sink with the draining board, and front apron farmhouse sink. My mother loved how large it was, but she complained about wanting to know whose idea was it to put such a dated sink in the house.
My husband is a woodworker. He made our kitchen cabinets. It took him 6 months to make the doors. I cleaned dust and dog hair off dishes and cookware for those 6 months. No open shelves for me.
Agree with you I always fiend the microwave about the range wrong
My kitchen desk does look like a dumping ground
Agree with all of this. Can’t stand the micro over the stove.
We didn’t have an apron farmhouse sink at my grandparents home but they definitely had a large white porcelain sink when I was a child.
Pot racks come from the idea of a commercial kitchen, along with stainless everything. Ugh. I don’t want to live in a restaurant. And since no one would ever confuse me with a pro chef, I won’t do any stainless.
I so agree with your list! I have never understood the desk in the kitchen and did not add that when we redesigned ours! I do have the microwave above the cooktop because that was the only way to get a vent (two story house). Open shelves are a thing I have never wanted. Our house is really old (built in 1896!) and our kitchen walls are original beaded board; I opted for the one row of tiles for the backsplash. Big mistake! While the tile is easy to clean, that beaded board is not!! For a while my pots and pans hung on the brick chimney wall (before remodeling) but are now safely tucked away in a drawer. Thanks for these tips! You now have a new subscriber ❤️
Common sense X 8.
Sorry, disagree on knobless. It’s really easy to keep clean and use. Knobs are horrible dirt traps.
I think a lot of these assume that you have a large kitchen and aren’t space constrained. I agree with the open-shelving concerns, but in my kitchen, I was able to effectively do an OTR microwave by picking a low-profile model that also vents much better than the previous model it replaced (it also opens up the space above the range). For pot racks, again, at my old place, I used wall mounted rails with hooks–I didn’t have an option to store them in a cabinet–in my new place I can store them below the counter.
The sink… depending on your age and where you grew up. My grand mother had a large porcelain sink with a pump at one end. Newfoundland in my area didn’t have electricity till 1960.
We’ve had flat cabinets and cupboards and drawers for 35 years and have no problem opening them because the edges are beveled so you can get a grip with your fingers, even when wet.
If you have pets you can’t have open shelving 🤢
I HATE open shelving.
The big porcelain sinks go back to manor house sculleries.
We are about to build a house. I want a double oven in my kitchen. I do a lot of cooking, including baking. It would be nice to be able to cook something that requires 425 temp, for example, and cook something at 350 at the same time. So a double oven is my biggest kitchen must have.
1. Open shelving isn’t as awful for things that ARE used so often they can’t get dirty. As much as I dislike them, that’s the only decent use for them.
2. OTR microwaves are super important in small kitchens, and "going without a microwave" is just dumb.
Subway tile is going to be severely dated soon. The subway tile of 2000s looks nothing like the subway tile of the 1920s.
Desks in the kitchen were heavily used from the 1920s through 1980s. They were ended by the computer. I don’t know why you "can’t imagine what they were for." They haven’t been seen much since 2000, though.
Hate subway tiles makes me feel like I am in a bus stop..
Of course, you could just lose the microwave.
Agree with most things you said. Kitchen desk is horrible. Ripped mine out and replaced with bookshelfs with microwave built in. The only thing you said that I disagree with is no microwave at all. No, that is not a good idea.
I like my butler sink! I can wash my big pans in it.
I agree with all *except*…open shelving. Before over-done, trendy Gucci kitchens became the default in the US (a terrible first-world problem), upper cabinets were considered unnecessary and obtrusive. Anybody who is partnered with a person who is 5’0" or thus, understands that upper cabinets are almost completely useless. I’ve renovated 15 homes and eliminated the upper cabinets every time, and every renter I have thanks me for the easily-accessible open shelves and the uncommon feeling of spaciousness they have in the kitchen. Open shelves are not a trend, they are a long-standing design element that will be popular well after we’re gone.
Interestingly, many designers advise against stainless appliances…
Everyone’s tastes are different, don’t rely on someone else’s interpretation of what they prefer to tell you what’s right or wrong
How about SUBWAY TILES ANYWHERE except subways?
Good video! The only one I disagree with as a personal preference is no handles on my cabinetry. All my kitchen cabinets are above the waist, and below are drawers (also pull out without handles)
We have two open shelves for our coffee bar area. That’s it. We use it for our mugs and coffee accessories (moka pot, canisters, etc). I could never have any more than that! Everything else we hid because I just don’t like seeing clutter.
Agree with everything except knobless cabinetry 🙂
It’s european
I disagree about pot racks. Bcuz I love pot racks and the look of pots hanging. And why people like them. They like the look of hanging pots. I don’t like white cabinets but a lot of people do. To each their own.
What happened to ceiling fans? They are so useful.
Outstanding! I agree on all points.
Over the range microwaves are dangerous for us shorter in stature. Taking hot items out of a microwave that is above our shoulder height is difficult at the very least.
Beware… Stainless steel sinks are hard to keep clean. 🌸
Open shelves in the kitchen are nonsense. Great list.
I am going to assume that people that like open shelving do not own any cats.
I’m in my late 50’s
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How did the farmhouse sink come about??? Joanna Freaking Gaines. Ugh.