Sometimes just upgrading the kitchen can change its face, in a way that we will not always need an expensive renovation afterwards, if we base simple things that we can actually edit ourselves.
Some would say that the living room is the main space of the house, but between us, in most homes the kitchen is the beating heart.
Entering the kitchen renovation entails large expenses, which sometimes cause the idea to be abandoned.
We will take you step by step on the path to a refreshing and practical change that will allow you to renew.
Before upgrading the kitchen there are three important steps:
Step 1 - Clean surfaces from items
The secret to a kitchen that looks sweet and well-designed is surfaces that are clean of objects, so this is the first task.
Take off from the marble everything that is on it, and assure yourself that these items will not return to it in their messy form.
Inside the night of the items you will find that there are some that can go into drawers, and there are some that must be on the counter, but they will return to it when they are arranged in designed baskets.
Step 2 -
Arranging the cabinets
Take out all the contents and get rid of all kinds of tools that you do not use.
Sort and arrange everything.
At this point, without knowing your kitchen, you will find that you have an entire closet vacated just as a result of the arrangement.
A tidy interior affects a tidy exterior.
Step 3 - The upgrade itself
It's time to sit down with a glass of wine in hand and write down for yourself what you would like to change in the kitchen.
Why with a glass of wine?
Because you have to think broadly and creatively.
Do not limit yourself and do not throw sentences like "it seems really expensive to me" or "there is no way I can achieve this".
Then, take each of the sections and translate it into what you can do for yourself.
Do it yourself
Get some ideas that will inspire and help you move forward, when it comes to add-ons that you decide to make by hand or install yourself at home.
Handles
Handles are one of the easiest and cheapest elements to upgrade.
Visit specialty home stores, where you will find an inexhaustible abundance of decorative handles.
Take out the existing handles, screw up the news and the upgrade is already visible.
Handles are one of the easiest and cheapest elements to upgrade, round marble door handle, ZARA HOME, Photo: Overseas PR
Storage Solutions
Why are baskets the ultimate item?
Because they are available and have a light and young look, and yet designed and organized.
In addition, it is a practical product, which also allows certified messists to maintain order, and they are usually of low cost and high value - especially in light of the drastic change they are bringing to the kitchen.
Organized and designed look, mesh basket, ZARA HOME, Photo: PR abroad
Basket for hanging on a shelf, NEXT website, Photo: PR
Boards
You will be amazed at how much change can bring you kitchen panels into your home.
They are decorative, functional and very different from each other, so they can share space in the same kitchen and bring interest to it.
Magnetic board
A magnetic board can be found at any craft store.
It can be silver, black and white or in more intense shades.
With the board, choose a package of magnets, and on them you can paste conceptual decorations - small pebbles that can also be purchased at art stores, pompoms or anything else.
It is advisable to think of a uniform idea and according to it to create the magnets so that it will also have a design value.
A roll of paper mounted on a wooden board and a magnetic board, hanging next to each other, COLLECTIE, Photo: Gili Hanan Black
Roll of paper for messages
It is possible to purchase such a roll as an invested design item - it usually comes with a wooden board, at the top of which the roll is installed and at the bottom of which a serrated strip is installed, which allows the used piece of paper to be cut.
You can write on a wheel like this the shopping list, a recipe you just made or just fun notes that you can leave a name for each other.
But the main thing is that you can make the purchased item yourself - all you need is a wooden board and a fixture with a roll of paper that comes with the serrated strip - and screw the roll fixture onto the wooden board.
A roll of paper mounted on a wooden board, COLLECTIE, Photo: Gili Hanan Black
Chalkboard
Do you know restaurants that write their menu on a chalk board installed in the heart of the restaurant?
You can do exactly the same thing.
If you put some pots on the fire, you can write on the board what is in them and allow the members of the household to feel a bit like in a restaurant.
On the board, just like on the roll of paper, you can write many more things, both practical and humorous.
Such a board puts a lot of soul into the kitchen.
Chalkboard for meal planning, NEXT website, Photo: PR
Garden of herbs
Choose 3-4 herbs and plant them in a long, narrow planter.
Place it on the island or next to the wall of one of the work surfaces.
There is nothing like picking a sage leaf and a rosemary stalk, which grew in your kitchen.
Apart from all these it is a look full of charm, pastoral that brings copious dishes of freshness and a good smell to the space.
Household spice pots that can be irrigated in a circle - winner of the RED DOT design award for 2019, Tollman's Dot,
Macrame pots hanging
You can make macrame yourself or buy macrame baskets, and place spilled flower pots inside them.
The potted plant, for example, has a tendency to spill and curl down.
Hanging a group of such pots inside macrame baskets that descend from the ceiling, creates a look of nature that has extended into the kitchen space.
Potos is an easy-to-maintain plant, and can be watered once every few days.
Flower pot inside a macrame holder, Happy Lemon, Photo: PR
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