In the picture above a very spacious Mediterranean kitchen uses solid Mahogany woods almost throughout the entire layout. Rich wood details was used on the floors, the ceiling’s beams & trusses, as well as the kitchen cabinets themselves. Adding a luxurious touch to this design is the solid marble top with a detailed nosing profile, and the matching marble backsplash.
Mediterranean Kitchen Design
Mediterranean kitchen design is very appealing to homeowners who have specific preferences of styles with added brightness and relaxing atmosphere. With lively colors used for accents, high end finishes, and dramatic old world elegance, Mediterranean kitchens provide a sense of luxury and beauty.
This kitchen style commonly uses blues and greens reflecting the Mediterranean water colors for walls, accents, and bigger elements including kitchen islands and cabinets. The color of the walls, floors, and countertops are often presented in colors of tan and beige.
For additional touch of Mediterranean essence, colors like the red, yellow, and green are used in smaller elements such as the curtains, rugs, glassware, and storage containers.
The materials used for a Mediterranean style kitchen design are often made from natural resources or even contemporary synthetics which are naturally looking. Floors use mostly hardwoods or engineered hardwoods which are lighter in shade. Cabinets installed are made from high quality woods with rustic finish. The natural beauty of the cabinets is maintained by means of staining and painting. Mosaics can also be used to feature the culture of the Mediterranean and include custom handcrafted tile work.
With regards to furniture such as chairs, tables, or stools, quality hardwood is utilized for its construction with the design of natural or unfinished state. Homeowners who wish to paint their furniture will make sure to use Mediterranean colors so that the space will appear brighter and more vibrant.
Mediterranean Style Kitchen
Below are the essentials of a Mediterranean style kitchen design:
• Colors are rich and warm – make use of popular Mediterranean colors for kitchen such as blended colors of red, bright yellow, and blue
• Swooping curves and arched architecture – provides elegance and old world style
• Wrought iron details – features beautiful detail with rustic charm in the kitchen
• Textured walls – presents the sense of vintage villa and gives a sense of glamour
• Backsplash tile – made form travertine, ceramic, porcelain, glass, slate or marble.
• Tilework painted by hand – these are presented with colorful Mosaics
• Saltillo floor tile – offers an earthy and warm flooring
• Ceiling beams – must be exposed and should match with the metals and textured walls
• Dark wood tones – to have a solid appearance using wood in the cabinetry, exposed beams and flooring
The Mediterranean kitchen builds a relaxing theme even when it comes to the decor and other accessories. Many small and large appliances are already available in different colors which can be matched properly with the Mediterranean design. Cookware or cutlery must project visual enticement to the design by pairing them properly with the overall theme.
Mediterranean kitchen with brick
The combination of the ceiling and flooring are a bit dark, so to balance it, the walls were simply painted white, and the kitchen cabinets were mostly finished in a creamy white color and topped with gray soapstone. Unlike the rest of the kitchen, though, the center-most kitchen island uses antiqued green finish on its base, making it unique.
Mediterranean kitchen with white counters
Dark walnut floors and white walls serves as the background for the solid Mahogany kitchen cabinets, topped with smooth white granite with a simple nosing profile, creating a clean, seamless lines. Skylights help illuminate the kitchen, white the quatrefoil mosaic tiles add a more traditional pattern, using lighter, more contemporary colors to keep the space looking bright and fresh.
Mediterranean kitchen with white cabinets
These cabinets stands out nicely against the solid Mahogany floors, and blends seamlessly into the white walls. For the countertop, gray granite was used for the main cabinets, while white marble was the material of choice for the kitchen island.
Baroque style Mediterranean Kitchen
The kitchen itself uses walnut finish for the heavily paneled cabinets, and tops it with a thick slab of brown granite, making it feel massive and heavy.
Mediterranean Kitchen with light granite counters
On the overhead cabinets, the traditional style paneled cabinets were given a bit more spice by using wire mesh on its panels, making the interior visible. This kitchen uses gold granite for all countertop, and uses a faux marble finish on the poured cement range hood cover, making it match with the color of the granite counters.
The material used for the backsplash, on the other hand, is white-painted cobblestone tiles, giving it a unique texture, with a more traditional feel than subway tiles.
Mediterranean Kitchen with open concept layout
The brick finish of the ceiling, the wooden beams and the arched openings, on the other hand, helps give this kitchen a more Mediterranean feel, which also helps mirror the curvy shape of the upholstered bar stools.
Mediterranean kitchen with high ceiling
The kitchen design somehow molds into the architectural style, using a walnut finish which matches the wooden beams and the wooden archways. Classic Corinthian motifs are seen on the cornice and sides of the full-height kitchen cabinets made from solid walnut.
The counters all use yellow river granite, which gives of a warm golden glow like the stone flooring, further emphasized by the warm white lights.
Mediterranean kitchen with rustic pendant lights
The kitchen has a fairly high ceiling, painted in burnt orange, instead of the usual white, further intensifying the warm tones in the space.
Mediterranean kitchen with cupola
For the kitchen cabinets, dark solid oak wood was used, varnishing it to perfection for an elegant look which perfectly matches the other furniture pieces, as well as the architectural elements like window frames and baseboards.
Contemporary Mediterranean kitchen design
The kitchen paneling design is a bit simpler with clean straight lines, and no ornamental motifs. The kitchen cabinets are all in dark stained mahogany, giving it a very elegant look.
The high end stainless steel stove with custom oven hood is a chefs dream while the dark cabinetry and textured walls offer old world charm.
Modern Mediterranean kitchen
The walls and ceiling of this kitchen are all in white, giving you a bright background, which helps balance out the heaviness of the terracotta colored tiles. The kitchen cabinets are traditional Spanish style, with turned posts and panel details, all in solid fruitwood and topped with granite.
Mediterranean kitchen with arched ceiling
The cabinets is a combination of varnished walnut which matches the doors, and off-white, which matches well with the light taupe walls.
Mediterranean kitchen with mosaic tile backsplash
The cabinets uses red-painted solid wood, topped with emerald green granite counters which also work perfectly with the unique emerald green mosaic tiles on the backsplash with an accent Mediterranean-inspired mosaic pattern at the center.
Mediterranean kitchen with exposed beam ceiling
The kitchen also uses light cream granite for the counters, sandstone tiles for the backsplash and cream porcelain tiles for the floor, creating a soft and warm-looking kitchen design.
Mediterranean kitchen with breakfast bar island
Beautiful arched windows in a Mediterranean kitchen
The cabinets are all finished in a light beech wood color and topped with a toned down emerald green granite. To make it look less heavy, glass panels were also used on the overhead cabinet doors.
Rustic style Mediterranean kitchen
Mediterranean kitchen with hardwood floors
Under cabinet lighting in a Mediterranean kitchen
Mediterranean kitchen with dark wood cabinets
The full height of the walls were maximized, using most of it as cabinet storage space. The dark Mahogany wood adds a warm red/orange tinge to the space, and is topped with cream granite, creating a balanced combination, while still maintaining its intimidating appeal.
Mediterranean kitchen with rustic wrought iron chandelier
The kitchen uses a combination of dark wengue base for the kitchen island, and light walnut for the kitchen cabinets.
Mediterranean kitchen open to the living room
For the kitchen cabinets, a combination of Mahogany finish for the main counters and pale ash wood for the kitchen island was used.
Mediterranean kitchen with u-shaped island
Using basic walnut for all the cabinets and light beige granite for the counters, what makes this kitchen very unique is its massive U-shaped island counter, which also serves as an informal dining area or a bar area. It has wengue-stained barstools with brocade and leather upholstery, giving it a classic baroque feel.
Mediterranean kitchen with ceramic tile floors
The main kitchen cabinets are in natural walnut, while the large kitchen island has antiqued white finish. All of these were topped with satin finish beige marble. Wooden beams and wrought iron chandeliers also add to the classic vibe of the space.
Mediterranean kitchen open to the dining room
The kitchen cabinets is a combination of two finishes: natural pine and black lacquer finish, both topped with black granite with golden flecks.
The backsplash tiles is unique in itself as well, using diamond patterns with green, navy and gold colors, which helps add a unique pattern on the surface, somewhat mirroring the diamond pattern on the base of the black kitchen island.
Mediterranean kitchen with terracotta floors
Like most Mediterranean style interiors, this has solid wood beams and trusses running across its ceiling, which also supports a wrought iron chandelier. The kitchen is made from lovely solid fruitwood, topped with white granite and solid teak wood butcher’s block for the kitchen island.
Bright Mediterranean kitchen
This kitchen also lacks the arched architectural details in classic Mediterranean spaces, so it instead applies it on the moldings and panelings on the kitchen cabinets. All cabinets were painted in a cream color and topped with dark green granite.
Stone oven surround in a Mediterranean kitchen
All cabinets are in dark Mahogany finish which matches the finish of the moldings and door frames. This room is designed with a lot of saturated colors and strong lines that entice the eyes and offers an impressive kitchen space.
Mediterranean kitchen with tile backsplash
The unique kitchen layout uses a combination of two finishes – natural walnut and antiqued green – for the kitchen cabinets. It uses gray soapstone for all kitchen counters, and uses 3D ceramic tiles with floral patterns for its backsplash, adding a country-inspired detail to the surface.
Mediterranean kitchen with oak cabinets
Mediterranean kitchen with black painted cabinets
Wrought iron details are also found in this kitchen, like on the range hood cover, the chandelier and against the range backsplash.
Mediterranean kitchen with off-white cabinets
For the kitchen itself, white-washed and off-white painted cabinets with white solid surface counters was used. This is combined with solid white-washed ash wood range hood cover and open shelves for a lighter feel.
Kitchens come in a variety of designs. It is essential to know your preference to really have the best kitchen design that suits your taste. The Mediterranean style kitchen is among the best designs that you can consider for a warm and elegant ambiance.
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