Top 4 Kitchen Customizations for 2022
Consider incorporating these trends in your custom build this year!
There are countless benefits to building your own custom home. In addition to skipping out on the fierce competition of trying to purchase an existing home in a seller’s market, building your own home gives you the opportunity to prioritize what you truly want in a house. The sky's the limit, and the choice is all yours!
The kitchen is one of the most-used, most important, and most upgraded areas in the home. Guests and residents alike get to enjoy the kitchen, and many people use it as a means to express their personal style and set a welcoming tone for the home as a whole. These top four kitchen customization trends center around convenience and color.
Adjustable Lighting
In many households, the need for a formal dining room has steeply declined over the years. Many families prefer to eat in the kitchen, at the counter or a table, instead of taking their meals in a separate room. That means the kitchen takes on various functions, from storing and preparing food to serving and consuming it. These different purposes each call for different lighting.
While many standard kitchens in the last few years have featured bright overhead lighting, adjustable lighting is gaining traction in kitchen design. With various different light fixtures and lighting types, you can set the mood for your kitchen.
For example, customizing with drop-down light fixtures over the counter can make for a cozy bar feel when you don’t need the entire kitchen illuminated. The ability to switch off lights in the cooking area while keeping the lighting over the table switched on can be the perfect stand-in for a separate dining room, as it draws attention away from the kitchen itself and onto the table and the company around it! The more control you have over the lighting in your kitchen, the more multifunctional and adaptable the space becomes.
Walk-in Pantries
Walk-in pantries are nothing new, but they’re certainly not going anywhere! When you build your own custom home, you get to choose the details of your kitchen storage. If you’re a fan of larger appliances like stand mixers, air fryers, or pressure cookers, it’s likely that you don’t want to use up all of your counter space for storage. Build a walk-in pantry with roomy shelves so that there’s a place for each and every one of your gadgets! If you’re always finding yourself running out of drawer space or hooks, incorporate them into your pantry design and never feel cluttered again.
Touchless Faucets
With a renewed focus on sanitation in the past couple of years, many people are opting for touch-free appliances in the kitchen. Touchless faucets have picked up particular traction, and it’s not hard to see why. After coming home from the grocery store or a day at work, wash up without spreading germs around the kitchen with a touchless faucet! Plus, how often do we haul a pile of dishes across the kitchen, only to clumsily struggle with the faucet handles? Touchless appliances add ease, accessibility, and cleanliness to the kitchen.
If a touchless faucet over the kitchen sink doesn’t appeal to you, how about a pot-filling tap over the stove? Get your culinary adventures started in a snap with no more need for running around between the stove and the sink.
Colorful Cabinets
While the modern design trends in the last decade brought a focus on monochrome tones and clean lines, many homeowners are now pivoting back toward a world of color. Materials like quarts are still most popular in countertops, but the color begins to fly when it comes to kitchen cabinets! Pastels like baby blues are particularly popular in french-style kitchens, and some home builders are branching out to pinks and greens for an extra pop. Complement the cabinets with some bold tiling on the floor or backsplash, and you’ll have a stylized kitchen that’s uniquely you.
Whether your main focus lies with design or convenience, customizing your own new kitchen gives you the freedom to incorporate the details that matter most to you. Hand-pick your amenities and skip the usual stress of homebuilding when you work with Atmos! Get started today.
