Elevate Your Orlando Kitchen With a Remodel: How to Maintain Function and Style

Creative & Timeless Ways to Enhance Your Orlando Kitchen Remodel

If your general kitchen architecture and layout work for you, a Details Construction Group kitchen remodel can focus on more functional and aesthetic updates that elevate its overall appearance while ensuring it can continue serving you well for the next decade or two.

Here are some suggestions to get the design brainstorm going.

1. Think About Customized & Varied Storage Upgrades

Kitchen storage options continue to evolve, making every square inch of space count. While custom cabinetry is essential, we also recommend varying your storage areas to create a more timeless look that meets your household's current and projected demands.

Customized Cabinets With Solid Doors

Closed kitchen cabinets are still a storage mainstay. However, the extraordinary level of potential customization is worth celebrating. Once we get to know more about your family, lifestyle, and kitchen use, we'll ensure the cabinet insides enhance kitchen function and workflow.

Things to think about on this front include:

• The age of your children. Should we integrate easy-to-reach snack cupboards or drawers? Pull-out drawers with their go-to dishes, cups, bottles, lunch packs, etc.)
• Aging in place. If you plan to age in place, now is a good time to consider kitchen accessibility over time so that things can be easily reorganized if needed to accommodate mobility aids.
• Specialty kitchen stations. Depending on how you use your kitchen, we may also want to talk about cabinetry and countertops that accommodate specialty stations for baking, morning smoothies, coffee/espresso, or tea, a happy hour wet bar, and so on.

Open Shelving

Open shelving is a great way to break things up so the kitchen doesn't have a wall-to-wall cabinet effect. It's also ideal for smaller kitchens because shelves open up the visual air space, making the kitchen feel larger.

Integrating open shelving is worth a conversation because the goal is to ensure the things stored there are easily organized and presentable rather than cluttered. We can discuss which kitchenware or storable items make the most sense on open shelves, including everyday dishware, serving platters, attractive seasonal display items, or your go-to cookbooks.

Cabinets With Glass Doors (Transparent, Decorative, or Opaque)

Integrating cabinets with glass doors is another timeless option that gives your kitchen a more open aesthetic than solid cabinet doors, but without being completely open. Depending on your design, glass doors also offer a chance to add color, texture, or pattern to the kitchen remodeling mix.

Double-sided upper cabinets with glass over a countertop or peninsula are also a great way to bring natural daylight in from an adjacent living room or family room.

2. The Kitchen Lighting Design

The kitchen lighting design tremendously impacts any Orlando kitchen remodel's overall look and feel. This includes:

• Having adequate lighting for tasks and ambient lighting for moods or nighttime safety.
• Using under and interior cabinet lighting features. These do an excellent job of casting a comforting glow in the early morning, a gentle ambiance in the later evening, and act as safety/security lighting at night. They also enhance the appearance of beautiful dishes or glassware stored in glass cabinets.
• Choosing decorative hanging fixtures in appropriate locations that provide adequate task lighting but are also timeless and minimalist enough to look in style for many years into the future.
• Ensuring all of your kitchen lighting is on dimmers so you can control the brightness.

We'll also work with you to select bulbs with a glow that enhances your chosen color palette.

3. Install Elevated Style Extras

The next step in elevating your Orlando kitchen remodel is to add the extra features that fall into the understated luxury category.

This includes some of our favorite things like:

• Urban wood tile flooring. Tile wood look flooring is easy to maintain and as durable as it gets, all while replicating the look at texture of genuine hardwood. The urban wood "planks" have a rustic barnwood finish that complements any design style while yielding a natural, visual flow between interior and exterior living spaces.
• Gorgeous cabinet door and drawer hardware. The right hardware choices are the perfect finishing touch to the custom cabinets referenced above. While hardware can offer a place to add a little "bling," timeless designs typically focus on classic bar pulls, cup pulls, and round knobs - all of which are never out of style.
• Spectacular backsplash(es). You don't have to go crazy with a decorative or geometric pattern (although you're welcome to), but even a subtle, well-selected backsplash makes a spectacular focal point in the kitchen.
• A hood that works for you. Don't let your hood sit idle when it's not in use. Choose a beautiful hood design that adds aesthetic value to the kitchen design all the time.