Modern Style Kitchen Interior Designs

Modern kitchens are more keen on aesthetics these days than they are on practicality. But perhaps the clean line simplicity of this style calls for hidden contraptions regarding all things functional. Either way, our friends at deviant art hooked us up with a creative perspective of the contemporary modern kitchen.

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Modern Kitchen interior Design

Modern Kitchen interior Design

Modern Kitchen interior Design Ideas

Kitchen interior Design

Kitchen interior Design Ideas

Modern Kitchen interior Design

Modern Kitchen interior Design

It’s not always true that the kitchen is the heart of a house, but when you think that here’s where people tend to chit chat and by looking at these amazing kitchen designs — it got to be true. The talented designers at Must Italia have successfully created an exquisite new kitchen arrangement combining both simplicity and elegance as one. What’s best from their creations is that you don’t need to sacrifice functionality for that gorgeousness to nestle right inside your home. Bringing a whole different ambiance for each design, all models have one main similarity in concept by using a range of woods and lacquered finishes with a strong personality — like solid wood with gold or silver sanding and gloss or matt horizontal grain ebony.

Minimalist Black & White Kitchen Design

In the last few years kitchens have changed because we have become more demanding of our time and having less of it to spend cooking. Many of us are on the move, always busy, looking for time saving methods. Then, there are those of us who are more interested in having a stylish kitchen, rather then workable. This Asian Kitchen design from Italian kitchen designer Futura Cucine is a great minimalist kitchen that is designed to perfectly merge in living area. Kitchens that are designed with an Italian flair and put together with more than just look in mind, but also functionality. Italian families have always been large and often meal-oriented, thus an Italian kitchen is a place where not only food can be prepared, but where family can gather, interact and perform any number of tasks.

Food for Thought on Kitchen Design

After seeing "Julie & Julia" last weekend, it really drove home to me how kitchens have changed in the past 50 years. The kitchen Paul Child designed and built for his wife Julia in 1961 (now enshrined at the Smithsonian) is a testament to utility and practicality rarely seen in home kitchens today.Paul Child raised the countertop height so Julia would be comfortable as she worked. Every tool, pan and utensil had a home - plus the ability to entertain inside the kitchen itself made it unique to its time and owners; it's a great example of custom design.

Julia Child's kitchen presaged a change in the American home over the last 10 or 15 years. These days, the kitchen has become the place where everyone wants to hang out, often watching TV in a "family" room adjoining it, making it the true center of the house.

As kitchens have evolved in their role to become the center of the house, their design seems to have forgotten the basic use - that of cooking and eating - and ease of use and cleanup. Look at this kitchen:

What is it? Is it a formal dining room with a range (and TV) stuck off to the side? Where do you do the prep-work? There's no proper work triangle in sight. And the worst sin of this kitchen in my mind is how on earth do you keep it clean? I think Julia Child would be aghast.

Then there's the opposite approach - the ultra sleek modern version:
This would be easy to keep clean, but where do you store anything? I hate the notion of only having open upper shelves for storage (dust catchers to me). It's not a kitchen where I imagine great meals being prepared or consumed.

These last two examples illustrate what the shelter magazines tend to advertise and illustrate as "Kitchen" today. Granted, Julia Child's kitchen is dated but, to me, it is still a more inviting space, exuding warmth and cheer. It's certainly good food for thought when thinking about designing kitchens!