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Residential Painting | 3 Winning Ways To Breathe New Life Into Your Timeworn Kitchen With Paint

13 January 2016 by Jo Ward

An appealing kitchen adds tremendous value to any home, but this cooking haven tends to look dull and worn out over prolonged use. You don't have to start from scratch to give your timeworn kitchen the facelift it needs. Painting a timeworn kitchen is an economical way to give it an instant uplift based on your personal taste and preferences. This guide is designed to help you breathe new life into your timeworn kitchen with paint.

Refresh Your Cabinet Doors And Interiors

Since cabinets occupy prominent spaces in your kitchen, painting the doors and interiors is a quick way to give the area a refreshed appearance, especially if they look dirty and dull. When it comes to colours for painting cabinets, you can choose to match your existing décor by using similar colours or you can get your cabinets to stand out by using contrasting colours for a brighter kitchen finish. Painting your cabinet doors and interiors is an easy way to add beauty to your kitchen without major renovations.  

Revive Your Kitchen Ceiling

A ceiling is perhaps the most neglected area of the room, but you'll be surprised at how much decorative value it brings to the kitchen. Painting the ceiling can give your kitchen a burst of colour, since most of your walls are probably covered with cabinets, benchtops and other appliances. Before choosing a painting colour, look at the space and find a shade that works best with the other colour accents of the room. For example, white is a universal colour that matches all types of colour schemes with ease. You can also choose a lighter or darker shade of your wall colours to give your kitchen added depth. Keep in mind that small kitchens always benefit from lighter colours for creating the illusion of space. If you have a large kitchen without space constraints, then you can afford to experiment with darker ceiling paints.

Stimulate With Underfoot Colour 

Painting your floors is a creative way to update your kitchen. This is an easy task if you have timber or concrete floors because you can simply update them with a coat of paint. If you have natural stone or tiled floors and want to retain their original beauty, then give them a thorough polishing for a renewed appearance. Instead of painting the entire floor, you could paint designs onto smaller spaces to add visual interest. For example, diamond or hexagon-shaped patterns add depth to plain, dull floors without much effort. Similarly, stencil patterns can give your kitchen floors deep graphic interest.

Painting different spaces around your timeworn kitchen will give it a new lease on life, so don't ignore this easy solution for refreshing your cooking space.

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