Sometimes even designers make mistakes. What can we say about "mere mortals" who try to arrange their own home.
Mistakes in kitchen arrangement are especially unpleasant, because it is a working space.
Bad Advice #1: Open Shelves Are Stylish
It's really stylish. These shelves beautifully display dishes, spices and decor, and the shelves themselves look very elegant.
But the beauty is preserved exactly until a person starts using the kitchen for its intended purpose. Do not forget that it is impossible to preserve a beautiful composition if some of the dishes are used, and instead of a beautiful teapot there is an unattractive hole. After each cooking, you will have to beautifully arrange all the elements of the composition again. Not to mention that dust and grease particles will accumulate on the shelves and decor.
This solution is suitable for people who rarely cook at home or are very neat and live alone. In a large family where you need to cook constantly, this stylish solution will turn into a mess in a week.
Bad Advice #2: Railing on the apron is beautiful and convenient
In this case, the problem is the same as with open shelves - a violation of the composition, dust and grease particles accumulating on things.
Bad Advice #3: Buy One Set of Dishes
Tableware does play an important role in the interior of the kitchen and dining room. If the tableware is from different sets, it creates chaos and disrupts the composition. Therefore, the advice to buy one set of tableware and use only it seems logical. Until it comes to real life.
One broken plate - and the whole set has to be thrown away and a new one bought instead. Not everyone likes such wastefulness.
It is much more practical and interesting to choose a certain style of dishes for yourself. For example, black and white, wooden or stylized as ceramics (or even real ceramics). Then you can simply buy the missing items in the chosen style. This is not only practical, but also looks much more interesting than a set where everything is the same.
Bad Advice #4: An overhanging countertop protects cabinets and floors from liquid spills
If you spill a liquid, it will flow down even from an overhanging countertop. However, a non-overhanging countertop looks more stylish and modern.
Bad Advice #5: Colored Lighting Creates Atmosphere
Colored lighting in the kitchen is in demand, although it has many disadvantages.
- The interior is cheaper (after all, the kitchen is not a night club).
- It strains your eyesight.
- Distorts the color of products, making it difficult to distinguish mold, rot and other defects.
The lighting in the kitchen should be either neutral or warm white. It looks stylish and is not harmful to the eyes.
Bad Advice #6: Decorate Your Kitchen with Fresh Flowers or Pots of Herbs
This advice is good for those who know how to take care of them. If you have no time to take care of plants, they will turn into a "broom" and will only spoil the interior.
Bad Advice #7: Clocks with Hands Add Charm to the Interior
If you have chosen a modern model of the clock that fits into the overall concept of the interior, then it will really become a good accessory. But if you just bought the first clock that came to hand, then this is a direct reference to the 90s, when huge dials in a flashy frame hung on the walls in every home.
Don't blindly follow the advice, then you can create a stylish and comfortable kitchen.
