When the housing market is slow, most homeowners are looking at ways to improve their home rather than sell. If you have found yourself wondering what remodel to consider for your home, allow me to introduce the idea of The Cashmere Kitchen.
A warmer color palette is on the rise, especially in kitchens. The latest design trend is “cashmere kitchens,” a style that favors warm neutrals over the cool crisp grays and whites that have been popular in recent years. Cashmere kitchens combine warm colors with modern and luxe styling for a cozy, calming space that feels upscale.
Thanks to the simple, neutral color palette, this trend is likely to have staying power, making it a safe choice.
What Is a Cashmere Kitchen?
Cashmere kitchens combine calming neutrals and pretty, modern accessories and finishes for a calming, sophisticated kitchen design. The idea is to create a kitchen that feels as cozy and luxe as a cashmere sweater. These kitchens often use contemporary cabinetry styles, natural wood or neutral cabinets, brass fixtures, and natural stone to achieve their soothing effect.
How to Design a Cashmere Kitchen
A neutral kitchen sounds simple, but layering neutrals requires a careful hand. Consider choosing an anchor piece, such as a stone countertop, a cabinetry color, or even kitchen hardware, that you really love and build your palette around that.
Focus on Textures
Another way to design a neutral kitchen is to focus on texture. When you remove stark color differences, you have to create visual interest in other ways, by layering different materials—think a matte wall against a polished marble countertop, or a velvet stool next to a lacquered cabinet—you add a dynamic quality that light and shadow can play off of.
Use subtle patterns, such as ticking stripes or wood grain to add even more visual texture.
Choose Warm Paint Colors
Paint colors for cashmere kitchens will have warm or neutral undertones and include taupes, light clay colors, ivories, and beiges. If you love a white kitchen and just want to warm it up consider Sherwin-Williams’ creamy off white Alabaster (SW 7008) or a delicate greige such as Sherwin-Williams’ Aesthetic White (SW 7035).
Layer Natural Materials
When layering colors and textures, consider focusing on natural materials. Raw wood tones and stone countertops are especially popular for this design style, because they’re easy to layer and look high-end. When you incorporate natural wood alongside natural stone, you create a timeless kitchen.
Choose the Right Countertops
Countertops are often the focal point of a cashmere kitchen design, because the rest of the finishes are subtle. Consider using Taj Mahal quartzite as the star of your neutral kitchen—and not just for aesthetic reasons, Taj Mahal brings that warm tone back. It’s a timeless stone, and over the past year it’s become extremely popular because of its color tone and durability.
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