Designer Tips To Create Gorgeous White Country Kitchens

Country kitchen designs are great for those who want to spend time with friends and family. They often have layouts that allow for eating within a breakfast nook or dining island. Country kitchens are warm and showcase handcrafted furniture and natural materials. We hope these country kitchen ideas give you inspiration for layouts and decor to create your own perfect space.

Country Kitchens Designs

Country Kitchen designs often use white for the main walls and cabinets, with warm wood accents for some surfaces and cabinets. They may also use a particular stone finish for the countertops and a nice, quaint tile for the backsplash.

Kitchen islands: These islands come in different shapes and sizes, but mostly serve as breakfast nooks. Sometimes, they are irregularly shaped to allow for more flexibility, and sometimes, they are two-tiered to allow for both dining and cooking tasks.

Butcherblock Countertops: These wood countertops consist of thin strips of wood running linearly over a long surface. The butcher block wood finish gives a rustic country vibe, similar to those in older barn houses. Modern touches such as laminate paneling or space for electrical outlets may be integrated into the design.

Accent Lights: Usually hanging over the kitchen island, these lights are usually rustic in style. Other country kitchens might try something lighter in a glass body to go for a more Contemporary barn look.

Handcrafted furniture: Barstools for island benches usually combine dark wood and leather upholstery or black wrought iron and reclaimed wood. Either way, they provide a rustic country look mixed with old-town comfort.

Backsplash: The backsplash in most kitchens uses a quaint country-style tile in small cuts. A linear border usually bounds the backsplash over the stove top and is then laid out in a diagonal fashion. The tile may also differ completely from the rest of the backsplash, serving as an accent.

Exaggerated range hood: Country style kitchens often exaggerate the space above their range hood. Designers use completely different materials for the range hood covers, such as reclaimed wood, rusted brass, or bronze. Other kitchens are designed such that the architrave before the rangehood features paneling and color similar to the hanging cabinets, but features intricate fretwork on the arched detail.

Wood floors: Wood floors in warm colors are a good contrast to the typically white paneled cabinets. They bring warmth to country-style kitchens, especially because of their unvarnished natural look. These wood floors can be laid out in planks, strips, or parquet tiles.

Pot hangers: A clear expression of old barnyard-style utility, these pot hangers are hung from the ceiling and are usually made of wrought iron or cast iron. Heavy pots and pans are hung here, and the setup of hanging materials can also influence the aesthetic of the layout.

Beadboard and exposed beam ceilings: Sometimes, even in high-ceiling cathedral roofs, exposed beams in reclaimed wood are a great way to frame beadboard ceilings. Besides the height of cathedral ceilings being similar to the high-roofed barn houses in the country, the natural treatment of the wood and the quaint lines and nails of the beadboard ceiling also call back to a simpler construction style. Beams can even be constructed to have a truss-like appearance.

Clerestory windows: Along with high cathedral ceilings are clerestory windows, openings way above the top of the kitchen’s hanging cabinets. These horizontal windows bring in light and do away with stale, warm air.

Glass-paneled cabinets: For lower-height ceilings, glass-paneled hanging cabinets or mini-cabinets above the main hanging cabinet storage units imitate these clerestory windows. Usually, white mullions with a pane of glass in between serve as both storage and display, especially since a small pinlight is placed inside illuminating layers of glass shelves and acts as a sort of “window” for the country-style kitchen.

In the picture above, the white shaker cabinets match the range surround and the base of the butcher block kitchen island in the space. The black granite countertops of the main counters, the varnished wooden floorboards, and tan-colored walls are nice contrasts to the lightness of the white in the room. The design also uses usually unused vertical space by employing a hanging type of storage for the kitchen’s pots and pans.

This country kitchen’s color palette has a white base—the walls, flat panel cabinets, and drawers—but it also uses an array of different colors. The rich dark wood used for the floors is a nice contrast to the lightness of the walls, and the black granite countertops are stylish additions as well. The subdued olive and yellow tones of the display cabinets are subtle hints of color that brighten up the room.

Country kitchens usually get their charm from homey and warm design elements and materials. In this example, we get a taste of pristine white French panel cabinets, subtle but bold black cabinet hardware used on the drawers, and under-counter storage space. Warm maple wood countertops are coupled with polished-white solid-surface counters for the main sink area. The sink is a farmhouse style that goes with the cabin feel of the area. On top of the range and kitchen island, brass pipes hang storage space for the pots and pans.

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