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A transitional kitchen is one that seamlessly blends traditional and contemporary styles, often elegant, immune to trends, and with certain classic design elements. This style of kitchen works well as it’s timeless, won’t age as quickly despite changes in trends and will feel chic and contemporary whilst remaining stylish and elegant. However, those wishing to make their kitchen ‘transitional’ should stick to certain rules if they’re to achieve this look successfully. Here’s how.

Transitional kitchens have these main elements

This kitchen style isn’t as simple to nail down as other kitchen trends. The aim is to have a kitchen that looks timeless but not dated, and this can be difficult to achieve if you haven’t had experience designing a kitchen before. Yet, one way to ensure you get this style right from the beginning, is to follow these elements that make up a transitional kitchen:

• Wooden floors

• Neutral colours or wood shaker cabinetry

• Marble worktops

• Matching metal finishes

• Pendant lighting

Make sure metal finishes complement your main kitchen colour

One of the key components of a transitional kitchen is incorporating metal finishes to give your kitchen a ‘classic’ feel, and whilst the trend has some elements of mix and match, you should never blend different types of metals or use metals that will clash with the main kitchen colour. This can make your kitchen look messy and noncohesive.

Additionally, when choosing metal finishes (when it comes to taps, knobs and handles) you need to consider if your kitchen colour will be cool-toned or warm-toned. If it’s the former, opt for silver metals, if it’s the latter, opt for gold metals. You can tell whether a colour scheme is warm or cool by the following rule; if it has a red, orange, or yellow hue it’s considered a warm colour. If the single colour has a blue, green or violet hue it’s considered a cool colour.

To achieve the ultimate transitional kitchen, you’ll need to invest in cabinetry and worktops which have a classical undercurrent and look and feel, expensive.

Keep decorations and soft furnishings

To A Minimum

When creating a transitional-style kitchen, soft furnishings such as cushions, candles and other accessories should be kept to a minimum. This look is designed to be clean, and minimal. Too many decorations detract from the finishing details and make the kitchen look messy and cluttered. Any furnishings on the worktops should be functional, for example, matching pouring bottles for oils and vinegars as well as matching salt and pepper shakers, and a small vase of flowers.

Lighting should be a central focus point

Pendant lighting is a key element of any transitional kitchen, so when choosing the styles, opt for something that’s versatile but eye-catching. Plain lampshades can make this style fall flat, so be adventurous and choose something that’s neutral, and that matches your colour scheme but has an interesting shape or design.

Be prepared to invest

To achieve the ultimate transitional kitchen, you’ll need to invest in cabinetry and worktops which have a classical undercurrent and look and feel, expensive. Classic lines or shaker finishes need to look clean and wellmade. This isn’t a budget kitchen, it’s a statement investment yet one which actually delivers highly on quality. So, rather than being one you’ll change in the time you live in the property, it’s a kitchen that will stand the test of time and work for you and the next owner down the line.

Having said that, quality and craftsmanship doesn’t have to come with a high-end price tag. By adopting a second-hand or ex-display kitchen from The Used Kitchen Company you can achieve transitional greatness at a fraction of the high street cost.

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