Kitchens by Riland

The American Kitchen design, known world over for its elaborate designs, can provide your kitchen with an American look and feel that brightens up the spirit, and which can magically transform the kitchen into a room that is a lot more than a place to dine and prepare food. The kitchen design creates a feeling of uniqueness but with an inimitable American flair about it. It is an elegant and warm look that you can have in your dream kitchen despite the size.

Color is a very essential element in an American Kitchen Design. Soft gold, bright sunny yellow, bright grass green, soft ocean blue and cobalt blue tones, and at times dark hunter green tones are all part of an American kitchen design style. This design style represents a contemporary design that combines industrial and natural elements to successfully blend all fundamentals with a less is more approach.

Natural materials are a fundamental element in cabinetry, walls, as well as all other furniture that is used in the design of American Kitchens. These materials feature mostly on the beamed ceilings, and walls, and can be wood painted in attractive natural colors or painted plaster, or even rough stained for a modernized rugged aged look.

Flooring materials in most of the American Kitchen design, like in any contemporary kitchen design, is tiles, with the countertops featuring marble or granite. The design further features a fireplace made of stone and which has a heavy beam serving as mantel. Windows coverings are mostly wooden shutters to complete that contemporary look. As for the countertops, ceramic tiles with tile backsplashes complete the American design.

It is not uncommon to find an overabundance of horizontal lines in the American kitchen design, perhaps to create the illusion of activity and movement. To keep the American kitchen from appearing as a beehive of activities, the monotony is always broken by the application of stainless steel to the appliances and units surroundings. The other notable characteristic of the American kitchen design is a ceiling height in the food preparation and cooking area being different from the rest of the kitchen.

This helps delineate a zone separate from the counter dining area without compromising on the décor of the entire home. Most American kitchen designs will have lighting fixtures intensified in different areas, particularly in the food preparation and cooking areas using under cabinet lighting and recessed fixtures.